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#21 Postby slartibartfast » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:34 pm

Hi Chuck
I almost included that sort of example as a possible exeption to the rule and i certainaly wouldn't recommend holding a snake love in and handling any of the venomous ones unless you have some well established experiance and skill handling them but the key is to have your home sealed correctly and just be carefull, even where i now live people freak out over snakes and they pose no risk to anyone (eastern ontario where timber rattlers are now extirpated (sp?)) and i just don't don't understand the attitude that the only good snake is a dead snake . And for the record i do have some critter phobias myself so i do understand the whole irrational fear thing (earthworms creep me out bigtime)
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#22 Postby brunota2003 » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:54 pm

Where did I say the only good snake is a dead snake? I absolutely love snakes, my dad used to raise them and any chance I get to hold a snake I will (excluding venomous ones) the problem is in the fact that the area is very bushy and swampy, it would be very easy to walk along and step on one, including rattlesnakes...without ever seeing or hearing it...the fact is that there are a ton of them there...the main problem though would be copperheads...which you can't hear as it does not have a rattle and it is so bushy right now that you can't see 4 feet in front of you on the ground...oh BTW Did anyone go bow hunting today? (first day of bow season here)
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#23 Postby jlauderdal » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:32 pm

brunota2003 wrote:
jlauderdal wrote:
brunota2003 wrote:me and my dad saw the end of a rattlesnake as he was crossing the road last weekend...it was probably 5 feet long...tried to run him over, but due to the ground being wet from the Big E we only PO'ed him as the ground was soft and mushy, so it and us only sunk some into the mud...backed up and listened and you could hear him in the bushes just a rattling his tail...


and you tried to kill the rattlesnake because?
because where he is at there are alot of them and copperheads...they are a big problem on that plot of land, its a hunting club and there are alot of woods out there, kids, adults, dogs etc stand a very high chance during bow season of being bitten by them...


so the solution is to run them over whenever possible? thats what we do down here in south florida, run over the gators whenever we see them.
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#24 Postby brunota2003 » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:37 pm

I hope you are being sarcastic...a gator would tear your car up...(unless it was a baby...)
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#25 Postby shaggy » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:06 pm

brunota2003 wrote:I hope you are being sarcastic...a gator would tear your car up...(unless it was a baby...)


A few years back my dad took a nice 8 pt buck with the buick did about 3,500 in damage looked like he hit a wall not a deer.
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#26 Postby brunota2003 » Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:20 pm

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brunota2003 wrote:I hope you are being sarcastic...a gator would tear your car up...(unless it was a baby...)


A few years back my dad took a nice 8 pt buck with the buick did about 3,500 in damage looked like he hit a wall not a deer.
my mom had a deer hit her car...then one of her cousins got killed by one...she didnt originally hit the deer, the car in front of her hit it, the deer flew over the car and then proceeded to go through the windshield of the car behind them...which my moms cousin was driving...she was killed instantly...:(
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#27 Postby NCHurricane » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:09 pm

jlauderdal wrote:
brunota2003 wrote:
jlauderdal wrote:
brunota2003 wrote:me and my dad saw the end of a rattlesnake as he was crossing the road last weekend...it was probably 5 feet long...tried to run him over, but due to the ground being wet from the Big E we only PO'ed him as the ground was soft and mushy, so it and us only sunk some into the mud...backed up and listened and you could hear him in the bushes just a rattling his tail...


and you tried to kill the rattlesnake because?
because where he is at there are alot of them and copperheads...they are a big problem on that plot of land, its a hunting club and there are alot of woods out there, kids, adults, dogs etc stand a very high chance during bow season of being bitten by them...


so the solution is to run them over whenever possible? thats what we do down here in south florida, run over the gators whenever we see them.


No, no. Sometimes we sneak up behind them and go BOO!. It scares them right out of their skin.

Matter of fact, that's why snakes shed their skin, not because they outgrow it but by having the daylights scared out of them...sometimes by gators.

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#28 Postby Pebbles » Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:23 pm

This is what happens to snakes and frogs in NC... :lol:

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... highlight=
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#30 Postby Three Blind Mice » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:05 am

That's the photos white shirt! Thanks!

Good ole timebomb.
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#31 Postby WhiteShirt » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:48 am

Three Blind Mice wrote:That's the photos white shirt! Thanks!

Good ole timebomb.


You're welcome. They came from a friend of mine who works in one of the plants here. His friend is the one who actually took the photos.
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#32 Postby bevgo » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:14 am

Hurricane Floyd wrote:
HDGator wrote:Snakes in a Cane!

They should make a movie!


I think that ones going right to DVD :wink:


They will of course be snakes picked up in Africa that don't belong in the area. Not the usual mocasins, rat snakes and rattlers you would normally see in the area. LOL 20 ft. anaconda smaks reporter in the head--lol.
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