God fast-tracks snake charming preacher to heaven (or not)

[Faithfree]

For some reason 'snake salvation' ministries have never taken off in Australia.

are your snakes too venomous and aggressive to make the proposition viable?

In Australia, even shoe laces are deadly venomous.

Mind you, the danger could be overrated. There has been no death by snake bite in Australia for several decades. Of course this might have something to do with our lack of stark raving mad Pentecostals.

Not quite, 2013 alone: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/201 ... 885007.htm; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-26/h ... te/4653048. But I think the average rate is down to less than one a year due to antivenin and better awareness of first aid. Snake-preachers would help us get the rate back up!

[Clinton Huxley]

Snake bothering should be a doddle in Blighty, apart from the adders.

If you can find one.
The headline - "Mild-mannered vicar develops slight rash after dancing with stinging nettles." - doesn't really have the same impact, does it?

priest gets itchy arm in grass snake incident.

[Hermit]

For some reason 'snake salvation' ministries have never taken off in Australia.

are your snakes too venomous and aggressive to make the proposition viable?

In Australia, even shoe laces are deadly venomous.

Mind you, the danger could be overrated. There has been no death by snake bite in Australia for several decades. Of course this might have something to do with our lack of stark raving mad Pentecostals.

Not quite, 2013 alone: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/201 ... 885007.htm; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-26/h ... te/4653048. But I think the average rate is down to less than one a year due to antivenin and better awareness of first aid. Snake-preachers would help us get the rate back up!

Looks like I was wrong. Thanks for the correction.

[mistermack]

These loonies get by because snakes don't always inject venom. Rattlesnakes especially, will often dry-bite, and not release it's venom, when it's self-defence. Or they just release a little bit, not the full bite. So people start thinking that they are immune, or that the lord protected them.

It wasn't either, it was just that the snake was only mildly irritated, and not in full kill mode.
Get one with a sore head, and it will give you the full dose. Then it's bye bye world.

Edit : I'm amazed that Australian kids will still pick up snakes. I thought that they were better educated in the dangers than that. I suppose you get lulled into a false sense of security over time.

[pErvinalia]

Watch this fucking idiot!

[FBM]

Wtf. You catch 5 deadly snakes in order to get one rabbit. Just eat the snakes, idjit!

[JimC]

IIRR, they're making robot snakes - you could send them down a burrow to flush out the bunnies...

[FBM]

Sending wobots after wabbits.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Sending wobots after wabbits.

Once they work the Bugs out of them.

[JimC]

Sending wobots after wabbits.

Wascally!

[Audley Strange]

As funny as this is, does anyone not find it more amusing, depressingly so perhaps, but really fucking funny that we live in a world where there are folks considering the potential of moon-bases and working on bio-tech and at the same time people shaking snakes about for the hope of being loved a bit more by a probably fictional Jewish Prophet from a 2000 year old book?

That state of affairs is fucking bananas if you think about it.

[Clinton Huxley]

This is why the aliens won't talk to us.

[Faithfree]

This is why the aliens won't talk to us.

They can't stop laughing long enough to send us a message.

[Clinton Huxley]

Still, probably safer than Catholic priests handling trouser snakes.

[JimC]

Has to be a Darwin award here...