# Snake Handling Pastor Bitten; Dies-Why?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 31, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snake-handling-pastor-bitten-dies-why/623656 "2012-05-31T14:40:51Z")\
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> [@Confused dart cum](#):
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> Has someone eaten every snake? How do people know this? I bet there is a poisonous snake, laws of probability

Nope. Poison is pretty rare among healthy vertebrates. Offhand I can only think of Tetraodontidae as being deadly poisonous, but having Pentecostals enjoy a fugu dinner as a show of faith kinda doesn’t have the same panache as snake handling.

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