Today's Worst Dad Award goes to Australian "Snakeman" Raymond Hoser, who let two poisonous snakes, a taipan and a death adder, bite his daughter to prove they were de-venomized and safe. Apparently this demonstration was intended as a response to charges that he had breached his Commercial Wildlife Demonstrator…
An Idaho man is trying to sell his snake-invested house. In this difficult real estate market, his chances of finding a buyer are slim, but then again, "there are people who love snakes." There are also speakers of Parseltongue.
Plenty of Hollywood stars voluntarily inject toxic substances into their faces to stave off wrinkles (Botox is a mild form of a very harmful toxin). But you should put the latest idea on your Definitely Don't Do-it-Yourself list.
[Leatherhead, U.K., March 26. Image via Getty]
Today we got a press release that read, "A woman's greatest fears are rejection and abandonment." This woman disagrees.
Wow: After a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to her door an bit her on the hand, 87-year-old Esther Orring strangled it with her bare hands. She has been treated with anti-venom and is recovering in the hospital. [NBC Miami]
The clip above is a PSA about the trauma of sexual abuse and the importance of treating victims to help them get over that trauma. It effectively conveys the haunting creepiness that abuse victims feel, with its use of a (vaguely NSFW) slithery, fleshy, snake-like thing that sorta looks like a cross between an arm…
