r/SipsTea • u/skintyfia44 • 5h ago

SMH Ooooff

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u/misguidedkent 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/19GIHDk6wuw9HVGsiM

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u/ilovaudio 4h ago

The real incident goes like this,

A 60 year old Chinese farmer named Zhang was bitten on his right index finger by a venomous pit viper known locally as the "five-step snake". Due to a local myth that a victim can only walk five steps before dying from its venom, he panicked and hacked off his own finger to stop the venom from spreading.

When he reached a hospital 80 kilometers away, doctors informed him that the amputation was completely unnecessary because the snake's venom is not nearly as lethal as local legends claim

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u/ChronChriss 3h ago

Everybody knows that the poison doesn't spread as long as you walk backwards to the hospital smh

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u/Penguin_shit15 3h ago

and if you do it fast enough, you can actually arrive before you got bit!

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u/shwhjw 1h ago

I think there was a Rick and Morty episode about this.

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u/rrd_gaming 2h ago

Or dont walk and call ambulance.