Rattle Snake Surprise
An Arlington County Virginia high school coach was bitten by a rattlesnake as he unpacked his bags after a trip to Summerton, South Carolina. Apparently he took his crew team down to Summerton for practice on Lake Marion — I guess it’s still a bit too cool up in Virginia for water sports. He was staying in a ‘rustic cabin’ that must have harbored the snake — unless one of his team decided to give him a present? No, of course not.
Had this occurred to a coach under an actual competitive situation, we could always blame the other team (or even more likely, one of their parents — we all know how whacko they go over their surrogate-sports events), but as this was just a practice run we will have to attribute the attack to old Mother Nature. She can be a bitch at times, which is probably why today’s youth spend more time in front of their TV and computer screens than out in her company. But face it, you aren’t even safe at home, as this story demonstrates. Luckily, it was only a small juvenile rattler, so the coach is expected to be OK.