Snake bites man on camera, as he mishandles and provokes it

In a recent video that went viral all over the internet, showed a man playing with a snake. The unidentified man was holding the reptile between his two palms and he can be seen letting it crawl on his face when he was suddenly bitten by the snake while the video was still being recorded. 

Man gets bitten on the forehead, goes viral

The reptile bit the man at the moment when he was looking away at something else. The original footage was uploaded by the user ‘The Reptile Hunter’ and has received several thousand likes and has clocked in over 600,000 views at the time of this publication. However, it's still unclear when and where the video was recorded. In the video, the man can be seen teasing the snake by blowing air at it and provoking it repeatedly.

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It is evident from the video, whenever the man handled the reptile, it becomes more aggressive each time and with each attempt to agitate it, the snake lunges at him- a sign of warning. The reptile tries to bite the man many times but every time the man manages to keep the snake away from his face by moving it at an arm's length. 

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Game gone wrong

It all goes haywire when the man is briefly distracted by something around him and looks sideways. The man places the snake on his head and provokes it again when the snake crawling on his head suddenly bites him on his forehead. The video ends at a very painful scene when the man struggles to detach himself from the snake whose fangs are still buried deep in his head. He falls off the camera’s view. 

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The incident should serve as a lesson to those who handle wild animals without professional guidance. On the Facebook video posted by 'Reptile Hunter', the person is seen holding a snake with brown and silver skin.

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