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Stephen Sodones, 62, spotted a snake alongside the road in Jefferson, N.J., and worried that it would get run over when it crossed, so he picked it up to carry it across himself. The snake, a venomous copperhead, bit him for his trouble. Three times. His condition was listed as “critical but improving,” and he is expected to live. “It was a good thing to do,” said venomous snake expert Joe Abene about the case, “but the wrong way to do it. What the heck was he thinking?" (Newark Star-Ledger) ...While everyone else wondered, “What the heck was he drinking?”
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 12