“A snake handling pastor in Kentucky is praying a rattler bite doesn’t take him the same way it took his dad.

“Cody Coots, son of the late Jamie Coots, is slowly recovering after he was bitten by a 6-foot-long rattlesnake early Monday. He has officially refused any sort of medical treatment.

“‘I told the Lord that I wouldn’t go to the hospital,’ Coots told the Lexington-Herald Leader.

“Coots has been bitten at least five other times by cottonmouth snakes. Monday’s bite marked his first rattler.” *

The Young Turks’ John Iadarola breaks down this seemingly insane story.

For more, read the NY Daily News story by Carol Kuruvilla here: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snake-handler-refuses-treatment-snake-bite-months-dad-death-article-1.1808395#ixzz33F2gNlNZ