Closeup of Snake trying to bite me-Director's Cut-9 min

Found a snake that tried to bite me - was it poisonous? The guy who found it thought it was a copperhead. I got closeups of its strike after I picked it up.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Snake
• strike
• bite
• attack
• copperhead
• watersnake
• venom
• poisonous
• virginia
• shenandoah
• wildlife
• fang
• danger

[MISHA1119]

This snake is a harmless Northern Water Snake (nerodia sipedon) but to misidentify it as a copperhead is a very forgivable mistake. I do not agree with the self-righteous asshole (to use his own polite term) that they committed a grave offense against nature by briefly interacting with it. Five minutes later the snake will have lost all memory of the encounter. "Asshole" and all you other politically correct morons, I think Tom's rationale as stated below is sufficient to justify the event.

[TomChair]

@MISHA1119 Go Misha!

[kphilljr]

yea these parents are smart teaching their kids to play with snakes. this is why so many kids die from snake bites! leave the poor thing along and stop pissin it off. would u like someone pokin u with a stick and slappin you around. if ur gunna look at it be a little nicer and respectful.

[bbjw56]

This why most people should not go out in the wilderness. The snake is developing learned behavior from these folks. What is this snake going to do the next time a person walks by.

I would like to invite these people to my place in Idaho, and perhaps they can have an educational discourse with one of our Bears.

[themauro002]

never take a snake at his tail, pick it up just a little behind his head so he cant bite you!

[HawgtiedXX]

simple water snake....he knew it or he would have NEVER picked it up with his hand.....copperheads are NOT, and I REPEAT NEVER found in a stream.....Copperheads like dried out wood, tree tops that have fallen and have rotted and barnes that have mice in them....what a joke

[Bamabarrett]

@Anon5K wow you have taken a LOTTTTTTTT of acid!!!!

[brandon5pennies]

Water snake.

[oldtrucker63]

Yeah teach the kids what is a bad snake and what is not, Every kid should know about can kill then and what will not. I teach my kid here in east Kentucky, Everyone should do the same.

[AtarahDerek]

If you find a snake that close to the water, it's likely not a copperhead. However, if you even suspect it's venomous, your best course of action is to do the exact opposite of what you did here. Better to leave a harmless snake alone than to find out the hard way it wasn't so harmless.

What you have there is nonvenomous, but he's definitely trying to intimidate you by imitating a venomous snake. Remember that any snakebite can get infected, venomous or otherwise.

[christopherturkleton]

That's a cold snake... Northern Water Snakes are normally super-quick!

[bowlingplyr]

humans are apart of nature to so..

[DzuckCZ]

You are such a idiots .... poor snake must be frightened !!

[musuroialex]

@boardingpass04 fuck U ..

we luv reptiles