Close call!!

8year old grandson in NC almost got bit in the face by a copperhead!! Luckily the snake missed!! So glad we don't have them here

Rare for a snake to miss. Very lucky! (Or it was just a warning strike)

Those are some mean little SO...B’s! I’ll take Cottonmouths and Rattlesnakes over Copperheads any day! Glad he missed and your grandson didn’t take a hit.

yup bad deal ,Guess you should go over and do a little exterminating

that boy must have mongoose like reflexes...glad it worked out

Very lucky.

I don't like nc, too long a drive too, hope they learn to watch for snakes.
A hit in the face kill a kid?

He Maybe has never seen one in the wild

Just talked to him on the video phone, he said it got about four inches from his face, he said it was a small one. So glad he didn't get hit, he was close to the ground looking at some ants

I am sure glad he is Ok.
My eye picks up rattlesnakes but the only copperheads I've ever seen I dang near stepped on so I don't like them one bit

glad he's unhurt!

I grew up with copperheads.

only rarely heard of a timber rattlesnake.

where I live now... just the opposite!

Glad it turned out good for the boy. Them copperheads got an attitude 24-7.

Some interesting facts and additional information.
Rattlesnake Statistics
Approximately 8,000 people a year are bit by venomous snakes in the U.S. 9-15 victims die. (FDA)
25% of adult rattlesnake bites are dry, with no venom injected. (Brown, 1997)
Rattlesnakes can only strike a distance equal to 1/2 their own length


Read more: https://www.desertusa.com/reptiles/rattlesnake-bites-spring.html#ixzz6Kxid86c2

Darn near stepped on a prairie rattler one time. Don't remember leaving the ground, but I landed about six foot away from where I was when I first saw it..

Did you need a change in pants? Lol
Im so glad he wasn't hit, would it disfigure his face? Or kill him, hes a handsome lil devil

I looked it up, rare to kill, but probably disfigurement, secondary infection, that would be bad on the face

every rattlesnake or cottonmouth ive ever run across just wanted away from me as fast as possible. copperheads wont run and will bite just because you got close enough. and they are the most camouflaged critter ive ever seen. About 2 years ago i started remaking a coyote set that had a possum in it and about halfway through i noticed a 2 foot copperhead start moving just enough i could see him. He had been there the whole time and i never noticed. Im usually really good at spotting snakes. I think i landed on top of the truck.

Lol dang id crap! Naseem was looking at some ants, probably kneeling down, and probably didn't see it til it missed his face, hes only eight years old, so lucky!!