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Kali

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6. I want to know how that thing got stuck in a bike chain. did she run over it?

Reply to canetoad (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 16, 2026, 12:52 AM

17 hrs ago

yikes! 2 meters is a big snake. and a dry bite! whatever happened she's pretty dang lucky!
there was an article a few days ago about some guy that got bit twice in the same leg by a rattler. didn't even realize what it was at first.

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Cyclist bitten by eastern brown snake caught in her bike chain [View all] canetoad 19 hrs ago OP

Actually it says the snake was freed, but then euthanized due to its injuries... hlthe2b 18 hrs ago #1

Sorry to hear that canetoad 18 hrs ago #2

Northern California and my area of Colorado had such a limited winter that the rattlesnakes hlthe2b 18 hrs ago #3

article says it was euthanized Kali 17 hrs ago #4

Hey Kali canetoad 17 hrs ago #5

I want to know how that thing got stuck in a bike chain. did she run over it? Kali 17 hrs ago #6