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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️
@skwinnicki.bsky.social

I long for a day when the nonstop horrors cease and our news apps can just be stuff like this: a child practiced football for an hour with a cottonmouth in his helmet and neither the child nor the snake were ultimately harmed now he's got a cool ice breaker for life www.espn.com/espn/story/_...

espn.comHigh school football player in Arkansas finds viper in helmetA high school football player in Arkansas wore a unknowingly wore a helmet with a venomous snake inside it for nearly an hour before discovering the unwelcome intruder.
Tim Johns
@timjohns.com

Fair point, but speaking as someone who grew up in Davy Crockett National Forest and as a child found way more cottonmouths in unexpected places* than I can count on all my fingers and toes, this may still qualify as one of the nonstop horrors. *thankfully, never inside my headgear

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Tim Johns
@timjohns.com

I only know of one friend (and separately, one of my college professors) who actually got a venomous bite, and neither from cottonmouths. Pretty much everyone else I grew up with has a handful of close call stories...although none quite as good as this kid's 😂.