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sigma7 ([personal profile] sigma7) wrote2007-09-01 04:45 pm
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Some kind of a critter, indeed

It was a case of beauty and the bite when a Mrs. America contestant was bitten by a rattlesnake in Arizona on Sunday.

Christina Ryan, who is Mrs. Tennessee, spent hours in the hospital after suffering the bite while on her way to rehearsals for the pageant.

She's now watching the pageant from the sidelines.

Ryan had been coming down some stairs when she saw a brown recluse spider on the ground and backed away from it.

However, she didn't see the rattlesnake that was behind her.

"Suddenly they jumped and they were screaming and we assumed they had encountered some kind of a critter," said Mrs. Iowa, Taryn Schuyler, who is a nurse.


My favorite part is that she eludes the brown recluse but gets chomped by a rattlesnake. They make it sound like Arizona's some kind of haven of catastrophically dangerous fauna. And this should be a metaphor. Some days you're snake food, other days you're spider lunch.

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