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18-year-old Austin Hatfield of Wimauma was hospitalized after being bitten by a cottonmouth snake.
The kicker is this happened while attempting to kiss it.

His friends say that he captured the snake from his girlfriends yard a couple days before the fatal encounter and kept it in a pillow case.

Jason Belcher, a friend who witnessed the attack said:

“He took it out, put it on his chest and it was acting funny, and it jumped up and got him, He ripped it off his face, threw it on the ground and he started swelling up immediately. It was pretty frightening.”

The 18-year-old was transported to Tampa General Hospital’s emergency room in critical condition, but doctors have since said that he is expected to recover.

Click the link below to see the before and after pics from the bite:

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