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Originally Posted by Uncle View Post
Or in your shoe.
or in your porsche engine bay (I got bit by a red back a couple of months ago) - it friggin hurts.

Brown snakes - got lots of 'em. You want some?

The browns will defend their ground - a bite first ask questions later type of critter.

More often that not they'll dry bite (no venom) and their fangs are real small. Often it looks like no more than a scratch. You'd be unlucky for them to penetrate a loose pair of jeans.

I know of a guy a couple of years ago who was bit on the foot by a whip snake at his back door. It was night time and he was wearing thongs on his feet (jandals for you Bill). He thought he'd scratched his foot on a stick and thought nothing more of it. Four hours later he was dead.
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