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Video shows cellphone-absorbed man stepping on snake, panicking

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
May 28, 2015

Surveillance video captured the moment an Oklahoma man stepped on a snake and skipped away in a panic.

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Tim Malone, a DJ at Skateland roller rink for 20 years, said he was paying attention to his Android and not where he was walking as he passed through a parking lot.

As he approached the building to go in, he looked up and realized he was stepping on a snake, which caused him to dance away in panic.

Malone said he felt an adrenaline rush and started kicking when he realized it was a snake.

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The reptile, a 4-foot-long bull snake, got a bite in but Malone was not seriously injured, and the snake was not venomous.

Malone said the snake may have been moving away from floodwaters.

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