NEWSArt Rascon hospitalized after copperhead snake bite Art Rascon is in a hospital this morning after he was attacked by a copperhead snake "Hi, this is Art Rascon, and I'm in the hospital..."The abc13 newsroom was as surprised as many on Facebook this morning when the Eyewitness News anchor appeared live from a hospital bed. Just bit by a copperhead venomous snake. Now in the ER room at Herman Memorial. So far, so good. /tQJkQAniRz— Art Rascon (@ArtRasconABC13) October 17, 2016 Rascon says he was bitten by a copperhead snake after he stepped outside in his bare feet. "I was in my front yard, and I just went out to the car," Rascon says. "I was getting something out of the trunk, and I was bit."/video/embed/?pid=1288399" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>Girl bitten by copperhead snake, Miya Shay reports. The anchor says he was "jumping around, thinking, 'What the heck was that?'" The copperhead had sunk its teeth into Rascon's left foot, just above his pinkie toe.
/video/embed/?pid=990447" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>Beckie Kistler was driving down the interstate when she noticed a copperhead snake slither up besider her inside her car. He rushed inside and was aided by his 18-year-old son Isaac, who was able to find the snake underneath the family vehicle.Rascon says he went to the hospital after experiencing dizziness. Doctors will now observe him for the next six hours to make sure he's alright.The newsman said his blood pressure is being monitored, and that they are watching for swelling beyond his foot./video/embed/?pid=1483941" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>King cobra snake captured in Needville, Chauncy Glover reports. Isaac Rascon showed viewers the snake, which appears small but packed a mighty and poisonous bite."It's just super painful," Art said. "I've never been bitten by a snake before." As you can imagine, he will not be anchoring Eyewitness News at 11am. We'll keep you updated on Art's condition. LEGO Ninjago toys are a hit with boys 5 - 9!
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Isac Mcfadden woke up Tuesday morning and headed to the bathroom. To his surprise, he found a rattlesnake slithering up the toilet bowl, WFMY reports. “I found this big clump, and I knew it was a snake,” Isac said. He quickly called his mom, Cassie Mcfadden, who recruited one of Isac’s older brothers to get a shovel to kill the snake. “I was just like, what do you do with this? What do you do with this? I don’t know,” Cassie told the station. Cassie Mcfadden killed the snake while dad, Jason, called Big Country Snake Removal. When the technician arrived, he found 24 Western diamondback rattlesnakes — 13 in the cellar, five adults and five babies underneath the house, and the one snake in the toilet, which had entered through a relief pipe. “Rattlesnakes are secretive and can be very cryptic. They rely heavily on their camouflage,” the company said on its Facebook page. “This is simply how they survive. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.”
The firm also recommended that property owners have their homes checked regularly for snake infestations and said they shouldn’t be afraid. “Rattlesnakes are an absolute necessity for the ecosystems, and people have an irrational fear about them,” a company spokesman said. Isac and his brothers had some final words of wisdom for other kids who encounter snakes in their homes. “If you find a snake,” they told WFMY, “always get an adult.”ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTLego unveils 'Women of NASA' set The newest Lego figures pay tribute to five women scientists. The newest Lego figures pay tribute to five women scientists.The company unveiled its "Women of NASA" set this week. The figures include Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.There's also one of Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the movie "Hidden Figures". The concept for this new set came from fans, who submitted proposals through the Lego Ideas Series.
We begin #WomensHistoryMonth with the best news: Our 5 LEGO #womeninSTEM will soon be available to kids everywhere! /6LPSrcPTc9— Lego NASA Women (@LegoNASAWomen) March 1, 2017The rattlesnake was the favorite animal emblem of the Americans even before the Revolution. In 1751 Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette carried a bitter article protesting the British practice of sending convicts to America. The author suggested tht the colonists return the favor by shipping "a cargo of rattlesnakes, which could be distributed in St. James Park, Spring Garden, and other places of pleasure, and particularly in the noblemen's gardens." Three years later the same paper printed the picture (as seen above) of a snake as a commentary on theTo remind the delegates of the danger of disunity, the serpent was shown cut toEach segment is marked with the name of a colony, and the motto "Join or Die" below. Other newspapers took up the snake theme. By 1774 the segments of the snake had grown together, and the motto had been changed to read:
"United Now Alive and Free Firm on this Basis Liberty Shall Stand and Thus Supported Ever Bless Our Land Till Time Becomes Eternity" Other authors felt the rattlesnake was a good example of America's virtues. it is unique to America; individually its rattles produce no sound, but united they can beand while it does not attack unless provoked, it is deadly to step upon one. The Gadsden Flag: The American Revolutionary period was a time of intense but controlled individualism - when self-directing responsible individuals again and again decided for themselves what they should do, and did it- without needing anyone else to give them an assignment or supervise them in Such a person was the patriot Colonel Christopher Gadsden of South Carolina. He had seen and liked a bright yellow banner with a hissing, coiled rattlesnake rising up in the center, and beneath the serpent the same words that appeared on the Striped Rattlesnake Flag - Don't Tread
On Me. Colonel Gadsden made a copy of this flag and submitted the design to the Provincial Congress in South Carolina. Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the new Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, when his ships put to sea for the first time. Hopkins captured large stores of British cannon and military supplies in the Bahamas. His cruise marked the salt-water baptism of the American Navy, and it saw the first landing of the Corps of Marines, on whose drums the Gadsden symbol was painted. The 1st Navy Jack: One of the first flags flown by our Navy may have been an adaptation of the "Rebellious Stripes" created at the time of the Stamp Act Congress. red and white stripes. Stretched across them was the rippling form of a rattlesnake, and the words, "DON'T TREAD ON ME"- a striking indication of the colonists' courage and fierce The flag we know today as the first Navy Jack (sometimes known as the "Culpepper Flag")