Continued:
"He made about eight attempts and managed to hit me with his nose just below my eye about four times...This chap and I were eyeball to eyeball and I found out that snakes don't blink...I had to choke him to death. It was the only way out. I was afraid that with all the blood rushing to my head I might pass out." When he tried to toss the dead snake aside, he couldn't let go--"I had to pry my fingers from its neck." Rathman, 45, who works for the Defense Department in San Jose, estimates his encounter with the snake lasted 20 minutes.
Warden Dave Smith says of meeting Rathman: "He walked toward me holding this string of rattles and said with a sort of grin on his face, 'I'd like to register a complaint about your wildlife here.'"
Life is like a Wildlife. Filled with dangerous things, and people that are hoping you'll drop dead: if not because you'll be food for them, then it's because you're occupying their space. A little
"He made about eight attempts and managed to hit me with his nose just below my eye about four times...This chap and I were eyeball to eyeball and I found out that snakes don't blink...I had to choke him to death. It was the only way out. I was afraid that with all the blood rushing to my head I might pass out." When he tried to toss the dead snake aside, he couldn't let go--"I had to pry my fingers from its neck." Rathman, 45, who works for the Defense Department in San Jose, estimates his encounter with the snake lasted 20 minutes.
Warden Dave Smith says of meeting Rathman: "He walked toward me holding this string of rattles and said with a sort of grin on his face, 'I'd like to register a complaint about your wildlife here.'"
Life is like a Wildlife. Filled with dangerous things, and people that are hoping you'll drop dead: if not because you'll be food for them, then it's because you're occupying their space. A little
