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Smacking an angry rattlesnake with a flimsy stick.


Stupid, or incredibly stupid?

Sincerely, yahmez the mad.

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I just saw this movie for the first time and I thought the same thing. You don't have to be a survival expert to know not to mess with an angry venomous snake. What an idiotic move that was.

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You use what's at hand.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

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OK, if you're being menaced by a rattlesnake, what SHOULD you do?

"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"

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I would:

a) panic, and
b) smack the angry rattlesnake with a flimsy stick

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Shut up.

You're an idiot.

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She was panicked, injured and afraid for her life. You'd probably do the same thing hoping to scare it off.

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