BREAKING NEWS – Wimauma, Florida – An unfortunate man learned the hard way that water moccasins do not make the best kissing partners. According to Fox 13, 18-year-old Austin Hatfield of was hospitalized after being bitten by a cottonmouth while attempting to kiss it. “He took it out, put it on his chest and it was acting funny, and it jumped up and got him,” said Jason Belcher, who witnessed the attack. “He ripped it off his face, threw it on the ground and he started swelling up immediately. It was pretty frightening.” This isn’t the first time Hatfield got injured while interacting with a wild animal. In 2017 he was hospitalized with multiple puncture wounds on both hands after he tried to give a porcupine a shampoo.