Good question about the hospital. They said he was on the couch, maybe he had taken sleeping pills to catch a nap on the sofa or something, for all we know, and was bitten in his sleep. (Black widow bites IIRC are supposed to be hellishly painful, so I doubt he'd just sleep through it normally...) Or maybe he knew people rarely die from them and decided to just tough it out, to avoid the danger of having some of his dangerous pets taken away, since I can't imagine that what he had going on there was totally legal. Are black widows even legal to keep, without a license of some sort?
And yeah, speculating's probably useless, but can still be fun. ;)
Re: rant
Date: 2007-08-03 08:19 pm (UTC)And yeah, speculating's probably useless, but can still be fun. ;)