QUESTION: Will a bite from the snake pictured above bankrupt you?
It doesn’t take a herpetologist (reptile scientist) to know that it’s extremely dangerous to get too close to a rattlesnake. But even if you do survive a bite, what are the financial ramifications? Let’s just say that, if the venom doesn’t get you, the hospital bill might scare you to death…
ANSWER: Take a look at this hospital bill. It very well may shock you…
Remember the Rattlesnake bite story I did Monday? Guy just sent me this pic of his bill. Uhhhhhhh….. pic.twitter.com/ahK2W9KxVg
— Dan Haggerty (@10NewsHaggerty) July 16, 2015
Never mind how the ridiculous way in which this San Diego man got himself bitten by a rattlesnake (he was posing for a “selfie” with it), the simple fact is that — fatal or not — you just don’t immediately bounce back after a rattlesnake bite. Not health-wise or financially…
Photo: Matthew Paulson, Flickr