A hospital in Australia has some very important advice for people bitten by snakes. The Kentucky Derby had an amazing 3-horse photo finish Saturday. And Jerry Seinfeld on “SNL” was great

There are some safety warnings that adults really shouldn’t need.
“Don’t stick your hand into that fire,” for example. “And don’t approach a bear in the woods and tap him on the shoulder.”

The good doctors at a hospital in Queensland, Australia probably figured this one they had to issue recently went without saying, but nope, they had to say it.

“Please don’t bring the snakes that bit you into the hospital to show us.”

Yep, this is a real, real problem, as hard as am I laughing right now telling you about it. From this story: “Snake bite victims are endangering medical staff by bringing the reptiles with them to hospital, doctors say.

In Queensland’s Wide Bay region, doctors have come face to face with some of the world’s most venomous snakes captured by patients believing it’ll help with identification and treatment.

In one case earlier this month, emergency staff at Bundaberg Hospital, four hours north of Brisbane, were handed a plastic food container with a small eastern brown snake inside peering back at them.

The incident has prompted the hospital’s director of emergency medicine, Adam Michael, to warn patients to leave snakes alone.

“We honestly don’t want people interacting with snakes any more than they already have,” Dr Michael said.

“Any attempts to either get close to a snake to catch or to kill, or to photograph the snake, just puts people at risk.”

And then comes my favorite quote in this story:

“We want people to be able to get seen and assessed quickly and having a live snake in the department slows up that process.”

YA THINK??? I’m just imagining the poor ER nurses and doctors hearing from a patient “You see doc, the snake bit me right here, on my lower leg, and I was really mad about it. Here, here’s the snake, can you tell him not to do that to people anymore, or you’ll dock his allowance???”

Too funny. I guess people think bringing in the kind of snake that bit them will help, but in no possible way does it.

**Next up today, you know I’m not a horse racing guy anymore but I do love the Triple Crown races, and especially the Kentucky Derby.

And Saturday, in the 150th running of that famous race, we got one of the best finishes ever. Three horses came to the wire basically neck and neck, and no one knew who had won the title for several minutes afterward.

But as small a margin as possible, Mystik Dan beat out Sierra Leone and Forever Young. What an incredible race!

**And finally today, you all know I’m a huge Jerry Seinfeld fan, and he’s been everywhere lately promoting his new movie “Unfrosted” which sadly has gotten pretty savaged by critics (a 42 percent fresh rating on rottentomatoes.com, not good.)

Well, Jerry was on “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend and talked about doing too much press, and it was hilarious. Poor Hoda.

Also want to point you to this great clip of Jerry on the Rich Eisen show talking about the famous monologue by Jason Alexander at the end of the “Seinfeld” episode about the marine biologist. So, so good.