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Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake ends up in coma [View all]
https://www.wcax.com/2024/08/02/connecticut-man-bitten-by-rare-rattlesnake-ends-up-coma/Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake ends up in coma
By The Associated Press
Published: Aug. 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM EDT|Updated: Aug. 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When Joseph Ricciardella saw the snake in the road, he stopped his car and tried to help it avoid getting run over.
The attempted good deed landed him in a Connecticut hospital in a medically induced coma after the timber rattlesnake, which is rare in the Northeast, bit his hand when he threw a shirt over it and tried to pick it up, said Brittany Hilmeyer, his former girlfriend and the mother of his daughter.
Hilmeyer said Ricciardella called her on Sunday to say he had just been bitten and was driving to the hospital. His voice sounded odd, like Donald Duck, she said. She said it happened as Ricciardella was driving from a park in upstate New York to his home in Torrington, Connecticut, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Hartford.
It isn’t clear exactly where the encounter happened because he hasn’t been able to speak in detail yet to family and friends, she said.
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By The Associated Press
Published: Aug. 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM EDT|Updated: Aug. 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When Joseph Ricciardella saw the snake in the road, he stopped his car and tried to help it avoid getting run over.
The attempted good deed landed him in a Connecticut hospital in a medically induced coma after the timber rattlesnake, which is rare in the Northeast, bit his hand when he threw a shirt over it and tried to pick it up, said Brittany Hilmeyer, his former girlfriend and the mother of his daughter.
Hilmeyer said Ricciardella called her on Sunday to say he had just been bitten and was driving to the hospital. His voice sounded odd, like Donald Duck, she said. She said it happened as Ricciardella was driving from a park in upstate New York to his home in Torrington, Connecticut, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Hartford.
It isn’t clear exactly where the encounter happened because he hasn’t been able to speak in detail yet to family and friends, she said.
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