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Title: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: long762range on August 12, 2009, 05:28:30 AM

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Granny-87-Kills-Venomous-Rattler-With-Bare-Hands-52963742.html

An 87-year-old Tampa woman had had it with the motherloving snakes on her motherloving porch.

So when a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to Esther Orring's door and bit her on the hand, she got even, strangling the venomous little serpent with her bare hands.

"She's a tough lady," Orring's daughter, Maria Pellicone, told WFLA. "She's a very strong person, so she will be a survivor."

Orring has been hospitalized since the Monday incident, after she was administered several vials of antivenin.

But the well-gripped granny is expected to make a full recovery, and Pellicone says she'll have the dead snake framed for her.

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: shooter32 on August 12, 2009, 05:41:25 AM

Glad she's going to be alright.

Don't mess with granny ;D

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: Pathfinder on August 12, 2009, 08:08:03 AM

One "benefit" (well, in this case anyhow) of getting older is poor circulation, especially in the extremities. Probably kept the venom from moving too quickly if at all.

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: Big Frank on August 12, 2009, 01:00:52 PM

You guys need guns to kill snakes and granny doesn't. ;D

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: tombogan03884 on August 12, 2009, 01:05:55 PM

Quote from: jumbofrank on August 12, 2009, 01:00:52 PM

You guys need guns to kill snakes and granny doesn't. ;D

Of course after we kill the snake with a GUN the only "injection" we need is to "inject" another cartridge into the magazine or cylinder.

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: PegLeg45 on August 12, 2009, 05:09:43 PM

Go, Granny, Go.

 ;D

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: Walter45Auto on August 13, 2009, 11:56:51 AM

Quote from: tombogan03884 on August 12, 2009, 01:05:55 PM

Of course after we kill the snake with a GUN the only "injection" we need is to "inject" another cartridge into the magazine or cylinder.

A BIG FAT +1.... I'm not scared of picking up poisonous snakes.... I'm just scared of gettin bit by them. ;D

Title: Re: Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands
Post by: MAUSERMAN on August 14, 2009, 10:31:48 PM

I can deal with snakes but a killer granny, that is something you cant prepare for.