Man bites and chews snake which bit him

As the saying goes, it is news when a man bites a dog. It is more so when a man bites a snake and chews off a good parth of its length.

That was what Ramesh Jamda, 25, of Bhubaneswar in Orissa, India did.

According to Kolkata's The Telegraph, the gardener of the city’ park was doing his daily routine of cutting the grass Saturday morning, when he felt a sharp pain in his thumb.

It was a rat snake with its fangs locked on his thumb. As Ramesh tried to shake off the reptile, it dug its fangs deeper into the flesh, increasing his pain.

In desperation, the man used a pair of scissors to remove the snake. The reptile finally removed its grip and fell off.

The furious gardener retaliated by grabbing the snake and bite it, tail onwards. In his fury he bit and chewed two thirds of the 0.03 metre-long snake.

The paper reported that a few minutes after the act, he felt queasy, started vomitting and passed out.

Other park workers rushed Ramesh to the hospital.

"I was angry when the snake bit me. I bit it back because that was my way of taking revenge," Ramesh told doctors later.