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Drugged Snake owner bitten
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_15759861
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Drugged Snake owner bitten
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/ci_15759861
Viperkeeper's mini rant about itOn Thursday morning a report by Pennsylvania State Police in Chambersburg said Barry Painter Sr., 38, was intoxicated and playing with a venomous western Gaboon viper at a home in Cumberland County when he was bitten. He is engaged to be married, and has five children, ages 2-15.
On Wednesday night he "reached down into the snake's cage like he normally does" to change its bedding when it suddenly bit him twice on the hand, she said.
Painter was taken to Chambersburg Hospital, then flown by helicopter to Harrisburg. Then began the nerve-wracking search for antivenin, Jessica Painter said.
"It took them four hours to get the antivenin. They finally got it from the Philadelphia Zoo, and had it flown to the hospital. We were pacing the floor," she said.
"My brother's up there fighting for his life, and they're saying he was drunk or on drugs," she said.
Police also report that illegal drugs were found at the home where Painter was bitten, and that the drugs have been linked to him. The drugs were allegedly found while searching for the loose viper.
As Painter was sent on his way to the hospital, state police knocked on snake catcher Charles Bonsell's door and drove him at 70 mph to Walnut Dale Road, Bonsell said.
"I caught it and I shot it," he said. "I threw him in the ground and buried him. I'm not a snake lover."
Bonsell said that Painter's acquaintance at first did not want Bonsell to shoot the snake, but state police convinced him to have it destroyed. Bonsell fired five rounds from a .22 caliber pistol into the viper.
Jessica Painter said the police found psychedelic mushrooms, but contends that the illegal fungi did not belong to her brother. She said there were several other people at the house Wednesday night.
Painter has not been charged for drug possession, Pinkerton said. The investigation is still ongoing.
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