If there’s one thing the Bible and the Harry Potter franchise have taught us, it’s that snakes are evil.
So you’d think a clergyman who became a minor celebrity because of his predilection for incorporating live snakes into his sermons, and who also appeared on reality show “Snake Salvation”, would know about the dangers of snake bites.
Sadly for preacher Jamie Coots, it appears not. The serpent-loving sermoniser was handling a rattlesnake at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro (as you do) when he was bitten on the hand. At this point, any rational person would immediately seek medical help.
But not Coots. In an unusual move for a religious man, Coots wilfully ignored logic and facts and, after initially dropping the snake, picked it back up and continued with his sermon.
Within minutes, an ill-looking Coots had to stop and headed to the bathroom.
When an ambulance crew arrived at the church, they were told Coots had gone home. Contacted at his house, the potty preacher refused medical treatment – with his son claiming he had been bitten several times before and usually “prayed for a while until the pain went away”.
When the ambulance returned about an hour later, Coots was dead.
“We’re going to go home, he’s going to lay on the couch, he’s going to hurt, he’s going to pray for a while and he’s going to get better. That’s what happened every other time, except this time was just so quick and it was crazy, it was really crazy,” son Cody Coots said.
Staff at Middlesboro hospital say his life could have been saved had he immediately sought medical treatment or if anyone in the congregation had been fluent in Parceltongue.
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