Ignoring the fact that this man seems to believe that his wife is his property, this article exemplifies the “fun” of content network and display advertising. I will forever associate his dealership with his stupidity and this frivolous lawsuit.
Maybe his new tag line should be: “Way easier than stealing my wife!”
He needs the money!
This hero of a man, Bobby Jenkins of Wyoming, saved his lab, Tanker Truck aka Tank, by sucking the snake venom from the bitten dogs nose.
Story from the Casper Star-Tribune Online
Tank’s head had ballooned to three times its normal size. The vet at the Goshen County veterinary clinic, Jenkins said, was surprised the dog was still alive.
After his dog received an anti-venom shot, Jenkins and his mother shopped for groceries to take back to the ranch.
“My heart started beating really, really fast and I had a cold sweat,” he said. He and his mother headed for the hospital emergency room.
“It was awful,” Pat Shimic said Thursday. “I could tell he was ready to pass out. He was turning white.”
At the emergency room, a nurse told them sucking out the venom was the wrong thing to do.
Jenkins received four vials of anti-venom medication.
Jenkins and his mother were stunned at the cost — $3,500 per vial.
“I thought they were joking,” his mother said.”I thought they meant $35.”
Apparently the health care system is on the side of the snakes. Yikes.
The hospital said that was the second snake bite treatment this year.
Jenkins said there appear to be more rattlesnakes out this year than before.
Of course there are; the snakepocalypse is coming. But in addition to that the warm weather has snakes leaving their dens.
Apparently Jenkins’ case is unusual.
“I have never heard of this happening to a dog owner,” Dr. Tim Hackett, a veterinarian and associate professor of emergency and critical care service at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, said in an e-mail.
“I have heard stories about the dangers of sucking venom into your mouth but am not aware of any published cases,” he wrote.
“No first aid is generally recommended. Just get to a vet/physician as soon as possible,” Hackett added.
Zach Walker, a herpetologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said only a handful of people die from snake bites every year.
The prairie rattlesnake, he said, is not as poisonous as other types such as the cottonmouth.
Moreover, a lot of snakes don’t give a full dose of venom.
“They save it for use on prey,” Walker said.”Some people get dry bites.”
Harassing a large snake is really dangerous, he said.
He said he also has heard that when a dog gets bitten by a rattlesnake and survives, the dog is henceforth immune to the venom.
And this is why dogs will be our allies when the snakepocalypse comes. We will have a race of venom immune uber dogs to fight at our sides.
According to this article on Reuters.com “Toilet Snake Attack: Urban Legend Comes True?” a Taiwanese man got bit on the penis while sitting on the toilet.
“As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up,” the China Times said. “When he looked down, he saw the big snake.”
The 51-year-old man, from Nantou County, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said.
What the large yellow and black rat snake was doing in the toilet in the first place is a mystery, but it is clear that snakes are growing ever bolder in their war against humanity.
Just make sure you look before you sit.
So I’m playing with the new Google Profiles today. So far seems like yet another profile to maintain. Possibly handy if you have a relatively common name. Probably not handy if you are say, John Smith.
If you have a Gmail account, the profile URL can only be customized as your gmail ID name or a series of numbers to mask your ID (otherwise people could infer your email address). If you use a non-gmail account, you can customize the profile URL to whatever your little heart desires. Which is what I did.
Search visibility is pretty much instant, but profiles, for now, are located at the very bottom of the page. I purposely set up my URL for my short name, Jacque, instead of Jacqueline to test. I have visibility for both names in the SERP.
Here is the result for me signed into a different Google account. Note the sponsored link:
Here is the profile on the bottom of the 1st page in the SERP. Note the links to the other Social Networking sites.
A search for my short name, Jacque shows the profile result along with with my full name:
Jackie Urick is a common misspelling of my short name. While I have thought about “dominating” search for “Jackie Urick”, once I realized a few years back that the only other person with my name is some high schooler in Montana (prolly graduated by now even), I didn’t sweat it. Besides, I use “Jacqueline” for my professional name.
What is nifty is that MY Google profile is appearing for the search “Jackie Urick” despite the fact I didn’t list it as a nickname in the profile.
TAKE THAT JACKIE URICK IN MONTANA.
You can visit my profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/jacque.urick
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