One Kiss That Packed a Mighty Wallop
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From Times Wire Reports
A man in Yacolt, Wash., who was showing off for friends by kissing his new rattlesnake was bitten on the lip and nearly died.
“I said, ‘OK, man, you’re being stupid, put it away,’ ” recalled friend Jim Roban. “He said, ‘It’s OK, I do it all the time.’ ”
After the second kiss, the snake bit Matt George, 21, under his mustache.
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