Quoted: You are a ignorant and most likely inbred toothless bastard child. Fucktards like you who brag about that kind of thing are BAD FOR THE SPORT. I'm hoping you are just kidding, but somehow I think you have so little going for you upstairs that it's probably true. Apparently morons have an uncanny ability to reproduce future generations of assclowns.
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www.sptimes.com/2003/08/16/Tampabay/As_boy_rebounds__more.shtmlAs boy rebounds, more snakes found
Two people have been bitten by pygmy rattlesnakes at Tampa Palms schools. Rain has likely forced the poisonous snakes from their usual homes.
By MICHAEL VAN SICKLER, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published August 16, 2003
TAMPA - With a microphone clipped to the collar of his Bugs Bunny hospital gown, R.J. Gambill didn't look like the typical media celebrity.
Reporters and cameras flanked Gambill during a Friday afternoon news conference at University Community Hospital, and the 6-year-old boy wasted few words answering questions about surviving a pygmy rattlesnake bite on Tuesday.
"Do snakes scare you?" one TV reporter asked.
Gambill squirmed in his seat, scribbling away on an etch-a-sketch, and nodded "no."
"Would you ever pet a snake again?" another TV reporter inquired.
Smiling a shy baby-tooth grin, Gambill nodded "yes."
"This is the better end of a crisis," his father, Ray Gambill, said later. "We've had so many people who have seen us on TV and ask us about R.J. I don't know if R.J. understands all of this. I think he just likes the company."
R.J. was bitten on his right index finger Tuesday while bending to touch the snake during recess outside Clark Elementary School, where he is in first grade, according to school officials. His parents, Ray and Bridget Gambill, said he told them that the snake jumped up and bit him.
The boy was taken by ambulance to University Community minutes later. Doctors injected an antivenin serum to fend off the poison. Still, swelling crept up his arm to the shoulder and by Tuesday night, Ray Gambill said, R.J. was looking like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
By Friday's news conference, however, the swelling had receded and his finger, despite being covered by two ugly scabs, looked almost its normal size.
R.J. was the first of two snake bite victims this week at Tampa Palms schools that are near a nature preserve. On Wednesday, Jorge Pena, a 55-year-old custodian at Freedom High, was bitten on his left index finger by another pygmy rattlesnake. He was treated and released at University Community Hospital.
And on Friday, two more pygmy rattlesnakes were seen in the same area.
At about 7 a.m., a custodian at Clark Elementary was trimming ivy beneath a stairwell when he surprised an 8-inch snake, which quickly slid away. And at 9:30 a.m., a custodian wielding a pitchfork at Freedom High School trapped a 11/2-foot snake. It was released in another location, said Hillsborough County schools spokesman Mark Hart.
Letters were sent home Friday with students, for the second time this week, telling parents that their children were not in any immediate danger.
Just in case, however, a wildlife specialist will survey the two campuses this weekend, Hart said.
"If there is a particular problem, we want it detected and eliminated," he said. "But we expect this to be a case where it's a natural occurrence. Under wet conditions like this, you're going to have close encounters. We've had heavy rainfall, and we're very close to wetlands. It's a known fact that this drives snakes from their habitat."
Hart said officials might drape fences bordering the campuses with a rugged silt screen that snakes can't penetrate.
- Michael Van Sickler can be reached at 269-5312 or
[email protected]
Well I guess I'm an a "ignorant and most likely inbred toothless bastard child, fucktard, with so little going on upstairs member of the moron generation of assclowns"
There is an abbreviation in there I'm sure.
Anyway, I find snakes on my 10 acres of property all the time. I relocate the non venomous ones. As for the rattlers and cotton mouths, their skins & rattles look real nice on my walls. If I'm in the woods huting, if I'm in a park, I'm in their home and I yeild, if they are crossing the road, they are free to go. If they're on my property, where I work, where my livestock treads, where I tread, their hide is mine.
BTW Highstrung your eloquent use of the English language: "ignorant and most likely inbred toothless bastard child, fucktard, with so little going on upstairs member of the moron generation of assclowns" demonstrates your your well bred lineage rather well.