A Connecticut man is in the hospital after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake he was trying to help. Joseph Ricciardella saw the snake on a road Sunday and tried to pick it up after throwing a shirt over it. That's when he was bitten on the hand, according to his former girlfriend, Brittany Hilmeyer.
This undated image provided of Brittany Hilmeyer, shows Joseph Ricciardella and his daughter Mia. When Ricciardella, an animal lover, saw a snake in the road, Sunday, July 28, 2024, he stopped his car and tried to help it avoid getting run over. The attempted good deed ended up landing him in a Connecticut hospital in a coma after the rare timber rattlesnake bit his hand. HARTFORD, Conn.
Hilmeyer said Ricciardella called her on Sunday to say he had just been bitten and was driving to the hospital. His voice sounded odd, like Donald Duck, she said. She said it happened as Ricciardella was driving from a park in upstate New York to his home in Torrington, Connecticut, about 25 miles west of Hartford.
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