This (http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050820/NEWS01/508200313/1002) sounds like something from a Stephen King novel.

Hi Sssssssssssssssstumpy.

Good Snake. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/Snake.pics/indigo.jpg)

Very bad snake. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/Snake.pics/Micruoides_euryzanthus.jpg)

Another good snake (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/Lg_nigra.html)

Another nasty fellow to stay away from (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/copperhead.gif)

Still a nastier snake to shy away from: The Eastern Diamondback Rattler. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/Crotalus_adamanteus.jpg)

The aboves Next of Kin. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/wdiamond.jpg)

Another relative to the above 2 snakes. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/Crotalus_Molossus.jpg)

But the ugliest of all IMO is:

Another enemy. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/python.html)

Another VERY large snake pic.

Huge snake. (http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/snake.pics/burmese.jpg)

;) I aint no fan of snakes either. :fear2:

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssss. :D

Hi Carl,
Those Photos were fascinating.
We have a few reasonably harmless snakes here in England,
but thank God, we don't have any of those critters!!
The worst I have to put up with is the Mother-in-Law!!

Best Wishes,
Keith

Whoa, Carl!! What a bunch of sssssssnake linksssssssss!

Chester :newyear:

WARNING!!</span>



Gross snake story below!!!



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I remember a story going around about 15 years ago at work, about a young couple with a little baby, living in a condominium complex. A python in the adjoining unit had gone down the toilet and into the sewer system, and then came out in the couple's toilet while everyone was asleep. It went into the baby's room and killed the baby and then ate it. When the parents woke up the next morning, they found the snake in the crib, with a bulge in its body. I tried to find this story on the Internet to tie a link to it, but couldn't find it.

Hey, I <span style=\'color:red\'>warned you!

Hi Chester,
Well I must admit, that must be the worst story I've ever woken up to!!
What a dreadful sequence of events!!
I am, in the future checking my toilet, before going to bed!

Keith

The thing is that someone will see this story and decide to make a movie out of it :headbonk: :lol: !!!
Cheers - Jay :D

HOLLY MACKEREL ANDY !!! :fear2: I mean Chester. :rolleyes: I thought I had tall tails to tell and that beats them ALL. :dead:

Chilibill :cowboy:

And as long as we're talking about snakes, check out this picture I received in a recent email (about folks who are good with Photoshop and have LOTS of time on their hands :o - yikes!).

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Chester :newyear:

Chester,
What's happened to you??
Everytime I get up in the morning,you have posted something horrible!!
Have you been watching loads of horror movies or something?

Keith

I'm beginning to wish I had never initiated this thread. :lol:

When it comes to snakes I do alright. But for some reason I need my wife to kill the spiders, they freak me out :fear: :fear2:

Originally posted by SXViper@Aug 24 2005, 07:39 AM
When it comes to snakes I do alright. But for some reason I need my wife to kill the spiders, they freak me out* :fear:* :fear2:
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When I was in Vietnam (1966), I went with our mail clerk one day to pick up the unit's mail. We were in a jeep. On the way back to the base we ran over a pretty good-sized snake in the road. That damned idiot mail clerk wanted to stop, get the snake and take it back to show everybody. I threatened to shoot him if he stopped. :lol:

I took 30 days leave after I got back. My folks lived out in the country and my step-dad had a shower rigged up in what we called the "wash-house", which was a tall shed with a big gravity-fed water tank on top.

About a week after I got home, I was out there taking a shower one afternoon. I happened to look down in a corner and there was the biggest durned bullsnake I ever saw. Well, naturally I ran out of the wash-house buck naked (thank goodness we lived in the country :lol: ), went into the house and got a .22 pistol. I must have shot that snake about 4 or 5 times and never did kill him, though I wounded him enough that he didn't crawl away. Finally, my wife, who's not afraid of snakes, came out with a shovel and cut his head off. Thank goodness for wives. :lol:

Originally posted by Stumpy@Aug 24 2005, 06:49 AM
About a week after I got home, I was out there taking a shower one afternoon. I happened to look down in a corner and there was the biggest durned bullsnake I ever saw. Well, naturally I ran out of the wash-house buck naked (thank goodness we lived in the country* :lol: ), went into the house and got a .22 pistol.* I must have shot that snake about 4 or 5 times and never did kill him, though I wounded him enough that he didn't crawl away. Finally, my wife, who's not afraid of snakes, came out with a shovel and cut his head off. Thank goodness for wives.* :lol:
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What a picture in my mind that story conjures up :lol: :lol: :lol: ! Like something out of a movie!

Chester :newyear:

hi sssssstumpy

sssuch a ssstory you sstarted ssssssssssssnakes who likes them not me thats who had enough of the blighters when i was younger. last summer had to toss a dead redbelly black out of my yard (dog got it) the only good snake is a dead one. we had some eastern browns at my parents place one went for my mum but she jumped out of the way dad killed one and chopped ones tail off (it disappeared dont know where) and the last one got away. both these snakes are deadly they kill both animals and man if not given antivemon in time.

hooroo smokey

Argghhh - this whole thread could be made into a B- movie. :stunned:
Cheers - Jay :D

:D Hi Keith, Chester.

Keith, that's good to know as someday I will be visiting in England and I don't wanna run into any nasty snakes. :D

Chester, quite welcome, glad to post photo's of some of my petsssssssssssssss. ((Actually all I have is one adult cat and her two newborn kittens)) :D

Oh and on that site I snagged those pics from, there are I think 2-3 stories of people being killed by their pet Pythons. :blink:

Hi,
Well how pleasant it was, to wake up this morning,
and not read one of Chesters horrifying tales,
I feel I will rest easier this day!!

Keith

Originally posted by ethanedwards@Aug 25 2005, 03:12 AM
Well how pleasant it was, to wake up this morning, and not read one of Chesters horrifying tales, I feel I will rest easier this day!!20839
And how pleasant not to tell one . . . :rolleyes: .

I'm glad to know your day is started off well :D .

Chester :newyear:

I got an email today that reminded me of an old thread . . . yup, this one.

No gruesome stories this time, just a "friendly, happy" picture :ohmy:.


Chester :newyear:

We've got them bigger than that slithering around Torquay!!!

We had St Patrick he banished all snakes so we are snake free apart from pet shops!!!

Actually, I dont mind them but I wouldnt want bit by them.

Mike

I'm not a massive fan of snakes myself but I really hate rats for some reason, I find them disgusting.

:agent:

Now Stumpy, this is a funny thread for a fellow to start who has the "Don't Tread on Me" flag as his avatar picture. :smile:

Now Stumpy, this is a funny thread for a fellow to start who has the "Don't Tread on Me" flag as his avatar picture. :smile:

I know, I know.... but it's the sentiment behind that flag that motivates me. :wink_smile:

I may post a different flag but the history revisionists will go out of their cotton-pickin' minds. You see, I belong to the organization "Sons of Confederate Veterans". :ohmy:

Hi

Snakes make my blood crawl. But two (hopefully amusing stories)

One I watched I think it was distant Drums with gary Cooper when I was kid, i think the film was set in the Florida everglades and after seeing the alligators and cottonmouth snakes i swore that if I ever went to the States Florida would be the last place we would go. So far we have been to America five times and every time we visit florida.

2. At one time I had an secretary/writer who tended to tell tall stories. One of his favourites was reading of a South American python who swallowed a London Bus. I tried to question him on the possibility of this reasoning that how would it be possible to swallow a red double decker bus, and also what would a london bus be doing driving through the Amazon Jungle.

Regards

Arthur

Hi

I tried to question him on the possibility of this reasoning that how would it be possible to swallow a red double decker bus, and also what would a london bus be doing driving through the Amazon Jungle.

. . . . details . . .details . . .details


Chester :newyear:

Hi

Snakes make my blood crawl. But two (hopefully amusing stories)

One I watched I think it was distant Drums with gary Cooper when I was kid, i think the film was set in the Florida everglades and after seeing the alligators and cottonmouth snakes i swore that if I ever went to the States Florida would be the last place we would go. So far we have been to America five times and every time we visit florida.

2. At one time I had an secretary/writer who tended to tell tall stories. One of his favourites was reading of a South American python who swallowed a London Bus. I tried to question him on the possibility of this reasoning that how would it be possible to swallow a red double decker bus, and also what would a london bus be doing driving through the Amazon Jungle.

Regards

Arthur

Those anecdotes are funny, Arthur.

Would you believe that in my part of the world, there are actually towns and organizations that hold rattlesnake hunts? Those folks are nuts, IMO. Who in their right mind would want to go out in the countryside and hunt snakes that, if they bite you, can possibly kill you? Not only that but in some of these hunts, they offer snake meat to eat. Ughhhh! The very thought turns my stomach.

I've heard rattlesnake meat tastes like chicken, not that I am going to try any soon:thumbs_down: !!!
Cheers - Jay:beer:

Jay, ever notice that every odd thing in the world that somebody wants to get you to try "tastes like chicken" ?

Also, I think I answered this before on this thread but its not snakes that get to me, its those damn spiders. Especially them big, brown barn spiders!! EEEEESSHH!!!

I think I answered this before on this thread but its not snakes that get to me, its those damn spiders. Especially them big, brown bard spiders!! EEEEESSHH!!!

Todd,
Recently, I was talking to a female GI who'd just returned from Iraq. She had a laptop with a bunch of pictures she showed me. One of the pictures was of a spider she called a "camel" spider. I swear, that thing looked like it was about 18 inches across. Made our tarantulas look puny. Scary-looking thing. Spiders don't scare me as much as snakes but that's one spider I wouldn't want to meet in the dark. :dead:

Jay, ever notice that every odd thing in the world that somebody wants to get you to try "tastes like chicken" ?


Yeah! Stuff like grasshoppers:stunned: , frogs legs:stunned: , snails:stunned: - that sort of thing.
Cheers - Jay:beer:

"I belong to the organization "Sons of Confederate Veterans". "

Stumpy the more I get to know about ya, the more I like ya!

States Rights Forever and Down with Northern Aggression! :wink_smile:

Hi Robbie

I remember the first time I saw a rat as a kid. I hate them with a vengeance.

My dad and older brothers used to use dogs to kill them when we lived in the country. Man those dogs could kill 50 at a go.

States Rights Forever and Down with Northern Aggression! :wink_smile:

Amen, brother...my great, great grandpa served in the 19th Texas Cavalry, a unit raised in Navarro county (Corsicana). That's a fact of which I'm very proud.

Speaking of having a relation serving in the Confederate Army. My great great uncle was a Colonel in the Confederate Cavalry and was severely wounded ata tiny battle called: Shiloh (that's Pittsburg Landing to Yankees) My GG Uncle lost and arm due to being hit by a cannonball. Sometime after the war, he served as Sheriff of Dodge City--not sure how long though.

Oh and, I am a member of the Sons of Norway, as well as honorarly member of the 101st airbornes 502nd PIR (Vietnam) operation ripcord. #505 of the French Foreign Legions all German Battalion (Indochina) honorary crewmember of U 181 as well as honorary member of the Kriegsmarine.

Speaking of having a relation serving in the Confederate Army. My great great uncle was a Colonel in the Confederate Cavalry and was severely wounded ata tiny battle called: Shiloh (that's Pittsburg Landing to Yankees) My GG Uncle lost and arm due to being hit by a cannonball. Sometime after the war, he served as Sheriff of Dodge City--not sure how long though.

Oh and, I am a member of the Sons of Norway, as well as honorarly member of the 101st airbornes 502nd PIR (Vietnam) operation ripcord. #505 of the French Foreign Legions all German Battalion (Indochina) honorary crewmember of U 181 as well as honorary member of the Kriegsmarine.

Was your great uncle any of these people?

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/fordco/lawmen.html

My only claims to the Civil War are:

A book about the Civil War, written in 1895, entitled Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War;

and . . . back in 1998, while going through the belongings of my maiden aunts (deceased father's sisters), who suffered from Alzheimer's (dementia), we had to go through every paper and magazine and book, because she had hidden things like $20 bills, and car titles and other important things, and while going through a huge pile of mostly old magazines and junk mail, and as I shook one magazine, what should fall out but the discharge paper from my great-grandfather's Civil War career.

Chester :newyear:

Was your great uncle any of these people?

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/fordco/lawmen.html

Hi Todd, thanks for the link.

I don't know if my GG Uncle is in any of those photos as I don't know what he looked like. I did some reading and did not see his name listed where I read. His name is: Samuel Cooper (unless he changed it after the war--which I do not think happened because the relation we found in 1981, never married and still had the last name of Cooper) I do not know what his middle name was and maybe he went by that later on?

WARNING - NOT for the faint of heart!

Here (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/snake-cow-image.shtml) is a link to a photo I received in an email today. At the top of the pic is a button "Back to Article" so you can read more about it.

Chester :newyear:

Yuk!!!

Glad we ain't got them in Torquay!!!

Is that for real Chester? or is it a case of Hoax Slayer???

If it is I think a bit of target practice is required.


Mike

i know you guys will think this is a tall tale but it isnt. when i was younger and living in north queensland, we lived on a pineapple farm we had a mouse plague followed by a snake plague. one morning before my sister and i had even left for school we had about 5 dead snakes hanging of the side of the box trailer, when we came home that afternoon three sides where filled with dead snakes mostly red bellies but others as well. as children when we played outside we had to watch each others backs for snakes coming out of the paddock and from under the house.
one night i was sent to have my shower and a red belly snake had crawled in under the back door and was slithering up into our room, called mum who sent the cat in, cat chased it out of the room and behind some packing crates (for the pineapples), dogs where called in but saw that it was the cats and walked away. while this was happening dad was out buying milk, when he got home cat still had the snake cornered, dad moved a crate the snake raised its head to strike and dad lopped its head off with the cane knife (this was used all the time and its a sugar cane cutting knife). he carried it outside and placed it on the trailer side.
i could go on about all of the times we had snakes get into the car wheel well, engine and such but i think you get the drift on how it was durning this plague time.

cheers smokey

Hi

Glad we haven't got em anywhere

Regards

Arthur

My wife hate snakes and my son he loves reading about them. I am just glad that we don't have a spider plague, now those things freak me out!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/ItsMyOpinion/ItsMyOpinion/Bigsnake.jpg

Is that you, Stumpy, with the biggest Rattler I've ever seen ! !

Chester

Big snake! I take it the snake is still alive the way it is being held. Is that you Stumpy?

Mike

Is that you Stumpy?

Mike

That's not me. I wouldn't be caught within100 miles of a rattlesnake that size. That dude wouldn't have to bite me - all he'd have to do is look at me and I'd die of fright.

According to the text that accompanied the picture, the snake was killed near a small town called Fritch, north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle.

It wasn't alive. I didn't know western diamondbacks came in that size. Supposed to have been about 9 feet long and close to a hundred pounds.

Here is a link to the text and picture of the big rattler.

http://forums.lubbockonline.com/cgi-bin/bb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000029

Stumpy, That Is A Mighty Big Rattler and I have Never Seen One that Big Here in Arizona, and I have Seen A Lot Of Big Rattles, and I Just Shot a 3 Foot Long One in My Front Yard last Week !!!
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I Know, I Know, Every Thing Is BIG In Texas?
Bill
:cowboy:

So its officially not you and there was me thinking he resembled a young Walter Brennan.

Just barely in Texas if it was north of Amarillo:laugh: .
Cheers - Jay:beer:

I Know, I Know, Every Thing Is BIG In Texas? Bill

That's what they say, Bill, but that snake is hard to believe. The biggest rattler I've ever even heard of was only a little over 6 feet. One bite from this snake would ruin your entire day.

My first thought upon seeing the picture was that it was fake but it sure looks real to me.

I guess the best snake is a . . . pickled one (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_fe_st/odd_snake_vodka)??

I heard that one on the radio yesterday. That is too funny. Anything to make a buck I guess.

could you imagin getting one of its fangs in you lip that would be funny to see them rushing to the hospital to get the antidote for rattle snake bite from drinking that , yuck

cheers smokey

Venomous or not, I would have died of fright! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433732,00.html)

She was lucky it wasn't a brown, tiger or taipan.

My son has that "kid" fascination with snakes. He is always bringing home books from the library about them. I get to read them to him as my wife is the poster child for this thread, she hates snakes!!!

My son has that "kid" fascination with snakes. He is always bringing home books from the library about them. I get to read them to him as my wife is the poster child for this thread, she hates snakes!!!

My younger son has also always had a fascination with snakes but he recently had an incident that may dampen that fascination.

While walking his dog in a creek bottom near their house one evening, he was bitten by a copperhead and spent the night in the ER, plus he had to lay out a big co-payment for the ER treatment.

My younger son has also always had a fascination with snakes but he recently had an incident that may dampen that fascination.

While walking his dog in a creek bottom near their house one evening, he was bitten by a copperhead and spent the night in the ER, plus he had to lay out a big co-payment for the ER treatment.

Ouch and double ouch!!

My younger son has also always had a fascination with snakes but he recently had an incident that may dampen that fascination.
. . .was bitten by a copperhead and spent the night in the ER, plus he had to lay out a big co-payment for the ER treatment.

This, plus the fact he could have ended up dead.

Chester :newyear:

This, plus the fact he could have ended up dead.

Chester :newyear:

He has a genius-level IQ but hardly any common sense. He was walking that dog late in the evening while the light was poor. Unable to see the snake clearly, he bent down to take hold of it and throw it out of the way before the dog spied it and got all excited. That's when the snake bit him.

He's had a thing for snakes ever since he was a kid. Several years ago he had a Burmese python for a pet?????

During the mid-Seventies, I was stationed at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. I took both boys camping in the Gila Wilderness area of western NM. One evening after I had crawled into my sleeping bag, there arose a big outcry from my older son. It turned out that the younger one (who was then about 11 years old) had caught a snake (without our knowledge) and placed it into his brother's sleeping bag. My oldest son feels about snakes the same way I do so he wasn't real happy to find one in his sleeping bag. I had to intervene to keep him from pounding his younger brother into pulp. :wink_smile:

Thank Goodness he was able to get to the ER in a timely manner, and they could help.

Chester :newyear:

This isn't a snake, but I think it falls in the same category - what say you?

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It's a coconut crab! It can actually crack coconuts with its pincers!

I would be SO creeped out if I saw that thing clinging to my garbage pail!

Mrs. C :angel1:

God help us, if we find these in the sea where I live

So can you eat those things Mrs. C.? A claw that big has to have some meat in it.

Up here we have Prairie Rattlers. I mow up 4 or 5 a year when I cut hay. I have ridden places up here with buzzing all around me every step of the way in the rock rimmed country. I am like most here I hate snakes. When I used to cowboy Id fix fence I remember once just about on my hands and knees getting ready to crawl in the brush to check the wires. Just as I was about to go in one buzzed in the brush, I decided quickly that fence looked right good where I was standing. Im not sure about diamondbacks, but prairie rattlers venom wont kill a horse generally, it makes them drunk and dopey acting then they sober up and are fine again.

Hi Jim

Just like Christmas cards being the best place for snow, photographs are the best place for snakes, and even then I'm cautious. One thing about England we only have one snake the Adder and it's not that bad.

Regards

Arthur

Hi Jim

Just like Christmas cards being the best place for snow, photographs are the best place for snakes, and even then I'm cautious. One thing about England we only have one snake the Adder and it's not that bad.

Regards

Arthur

I'd be as happy as I could be if I lived in a place without any snakes at all.

The US has five species that are poisonous, the coral snake being the most venomous. All five species can be found in Texas.

Naturally, I'm not pleased with the idea of my grandkids possibly being bitten by one of these things.

You definately have to be careful. When we check hay for moisture before we bail it we kick the windrows to make sure nothings in it before grabbing a handful. If you pick up a piece of tin or something off the ground you do the same. Their times in the year though when they lose their ability to rattle then its hard to say whats there. Think its when they shed their skin. They scare me to death I wont even touch a dead one.

They scare me to death I wont even touch a dead one.

Me too, Steve,

Did you see the picture I posted on page 3 of this thread? Just looking at that thing gives me goose bumps.

Me too, Steve,

Did you see the picture I posted on page 3 of this thread? Just looking at that thing gives me goose bumps.


I think I know what picture your talking about stumpy if your talking about the one on page 5. Ive never seen a diamondback rattler other than in zoo's and honostly it wont bother me if i never meet one. If I had seen that thing in person Id probably still be having nitemares. Why is it that people that arent scared of snakes will climb on the kitchen table to get away from a mouse? Not to stereotype snake fans, but just every person i ever met that wasnt afraid of snakes was terrified of mice. Maybe its just the people i know generally speaking. So dont nobody go and get offended. My boss will kill a rattler with a screwdriver, but he will climb on a table to get away from a mouse, and hes not the only one i know like that.

FarmerSteve: You are so right about some folks being afraid of mice but not snakes. Didn't mind this python at all (easily seen!) but a fast moving mouse would send me up the wall:
http://homepage.mac.com/jannb8/unloved

As a child of around 5, I was riding my bike in the woods until I heard a sound. As a young kid, I was curious and got off my bike. That is the last memory I had until I woke up in the hospital three days later with a bandage on my ankle and experiencing some pain.

I didn't know what was happening until my parents explained to me that I was bit by a rattlesnake. What saved my life is the fact that I did pass out so my blood would slow down so the poison would stay away from my heart, and that someone found me in the woods pretty quick.

I don't like snakes nor do I touch them. I am a little better about them now, but prefer to stay away from them and they from me. I have killed some and removed some from places I needed to, but I don't relate to them.

Cheers :cool: Hondo

So can you eat those things Mrs. C.? A claw that big has to have some meat in it.
Not that I consider Wikipedia to be an impeccable source, but it was the only place I could find that even mentioned the word recipe. All other references were recipes that included crab and coconut, but not coconut crab. Anyway, here's what they have to say -

From Wikipedia: Different islands also have a variety of recipes, as for example coconut crab cooked in coconut milk. While the coconut crab itself is not innately poisonous, it may become so depending on its diet, and cases of coconut crab poisoning have occurred. It is believed that the poison comes from plant toxins, which would explain why some animals are poisonous and others not. Reputedly[citation needed] this poison is considered an aphrodisiac, similar to the highly poisonous pufferfish eaten in Japan. However, coconut crabs are not a commercially significant species and are usually not sold.

As a child of around 5, I was riding my bike in the woods until I heard a sound. As a young kid, I was curious and got off my bike. That is the last memory I had until I woke up in the hospital three days later with a bandage on my ankle and experiencing some pain.

I didn't know what was happening until my parents explained to me that I was bit by a rattlesnake. What saved my life is the fact that I did pass out so my blood would slow down so the poison would stay away from my heart, and that someone found me in the woods pretty quick.
:afraid:Hondo! Yikes! You were certainly blessed with the best of circumstances in the worst of circumstances (and ultimately we were blessed, too!). I guess I can see why you would have an adverse feeling towards snakes!

Mrs. C :angel1:

OK, I got references to both of the following in separate emails on the same day, and I IMMEDIATELY thought of this thread.

The first is a PowerPoint presentation entitled Snake vs Kangaroo (http://www.slideshare.net/kanchanap64/snakevskangaroopps). It can be opened to full screen for the 'full' effect :fear2:.

The second had this text to explain what was happening -

ELECTRIC FENCE

Seems a sheep farmer was puzzled about the disappearance of some sheep on his farm.
After a few weeks the farmer Decided to put up an electric fence. About a week later,
this is what he found!

2278

Now, I know we've all heard of people being eaten by snakes and I bet most of us have said,
'If a snake tried to eat me, I'd blah, blah, blah.........., and get away.'
Well, this is a Python and they're extremely aggressive and have a few teeth that they
use to hold their prey while they wrap around them and then constrict.

Could you get away if this one bit you and held on with it's 'few teeth?'

2279

(Note: The wires are 10 inches apart).

I repeat - :fear2:!!!!!

(I don't know why the pictures don't appear, but you can click on the links to see them. Snopes indicates the story is true, and took place in South Africa . . . thank goodness it's not anywhere around here!).

Chester :newyear:

Jim, I concur.
Wouldn't like the kids playing in one of their yards!!

Don't think I would want ME playing in that yard ! ! :fear2:

Chester :newyear:

I guess it must be a cultural difference . . . .

I tried to embed the YouTube link, but to no avail, so here is the link.

Snake Boy
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8uPhuXQNiM)

Chester :newyear:

Wanna go swimmin' in the lake - think again. Not with this bad boy in there too. :fear2:

http://bassfan.com/tv_play.asp?id=119

P.S. Turn up your sound.

The whole time I was watching that, I was thinking, "Start the engine and get outta there!!!"

The whole time I was watching that, I was thinking, "Start the engine and get outta there!!!"

And here we thought water moccasins were the only snakes that you found in bodies of water. Guess we need to think again.

Time to dust off this thread . . . .

kTYPYKpHkDo

Jim,
That is Some Tough Rabbit !!!
:hyper:
Bill
:cowboy:

I'm overcome with admiration and respect. (http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Granny-87-Kills-Venomous-Rattler-With-Bare-Hands-52963742.html)There ain't no way I'd even try to match Granny's act of courage.

I got the following in an email from a friend, and knew just where it had to go . . . :))):

I took a lease on a piece of land where there are plenty of deer roaming around.

I put up a stand in a nice place where several game trails cross; but because of some obstacles (see photos below) that I encountered getting to my stand last Saturday, I've decided to forego any more attempts at bagging a trophy deer this year...

So, if anybody wants my deer stand for the rest of the year, it's open to any one who would like to take a stab at it.

My heart can't take another day like last Saturday.
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Anybody up for some deer hunting??

My gosh, please tell us where this deer stand is located so I can avoid the whole darned state. :blush:

best of luck to you chester hope you have sturdy boots and one big gun to blow them away. looks like you will have to snake proof your new home when you move there or have lots of antivemon handy

cheers smokey

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If that's how you felt about the last batch of pics, you are really gonna love these :devil: . . .

These rattlesnakes are in Sabino Canyon near Tuscon, AZ.

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Barbecue season already Jim!! Most folk just do burgers!!!

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If that's how you felt about the last batch of pics, you are really gonna love these :devil: . . .

These rattlesnakes are in Sabino Canyon near Tuscon, AZ.

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wow wouldnt want to step into that hole now would we just stuff some diamite down there and have some snae stew:wink_smile:

cheers smokey

Knowing the reputation of these dudes (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/28/quick-thinking-mom-saves-son-venomous-snake-bites/), I'd probably have died of fright, never mind the venom.

we see them around our local area sometimes and with the wet they are moving to the higher dry ground that is all types of the little bliters have a healthy respect for them

cheers smokey