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June 20, 2005

Atrocity Tourism: Justin's Rattlesnake Bite.

Oh Jesus Christ would you look at that.

When he was thirteen years old, a western diamondback rattlesnake bit Justin Schwartz on the left hand.

It sucked.

He took pictures, though. Or rather, someone took pictures for him; all the good ones must have been snapped while he was unconscious. Surgeons usually try to knock you out before they peel you from palm to armpit. Or so I'd hope.

Don't click this link if you're not into massive, open wounds being stitched together with rubber bands, necrotizing flesh, and arms so expertly flayed that the subject could double for a Burne Hogarth sketch. You've been warned.

Posted by Spike at June 20, 2005 11:14 PM

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Holy shit that's AMAZING.

Posted by melly at June 21, 2005 01:06 AM
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In the third picture in, his hand looks like a baseball. I am glad that medical science has progressed to technology like staples and rubber bands.

Posted by Brenna at June 21, 2005 01:45 AM
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...and note the bottom of the story. Dad's letting him rock climb again. CHRIST I didn't know the dude that cut his own arm off under a boulder finally had kids... oh wait. Age difference. Hell, maybe they're related.

Posted by Karen at June 21, 2005 03:06 AM
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I received an email last week from a friend of mine warning me to beware of brown recluse spiders. I'd say the acompanying pictures were everybit as disgusting as these. Let me know if you'd like me to forward them.

Posted by bano at June 21, 2005 10:56 PM
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Jesus biscuits! (as Karl from "Bear" would say). I've worked in a hospital for twenty years (no exaggeration) and thought I was pretty hardened.

Well, brush my teeth and call me Smiley, I am so GLAD I did not see these pix right after lunch. I was half-convinced they were SFX fakes - no, they're not. Three cheers for modern medicine - in most parts of the world, the treatment would have been CHOP and here's your hook.

Good on the kid for going back to rock climbing, I say. If it'd been me at age 13, I'd still be in my bedroom working on my stamp collection.

Posted by Robert at June 28, 2005 05:47 PM
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