Effing Rattlesnakes

[Hugh R]

I hate it when they get in my house. Nothing like taking a flat blade shovel and grinding it's head off on my new hardwood floors.

[RWebb]

good eatin!

[911boost]

Oh f-that!

You need a pet mongoose or something.

Bill

[dtw]

Ran across a brown recluse spider in the house when I was a kid. Took about 10 years off my life. Rattlesnakes? Oh HELL no...

[BRPORSCHE]

I would scream like a littlle girl, and then blast the heck out of it.

[sjf911]

Ummm, isn't that a bull snake?

[slodave]

Originally Posted by sjf911

ummm, isn't that a bull snake?

+1

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by sjf911

Ummm, isn't that a bull snake?

Does it matter is is a frigging snake IN THE HOUSE! Shoot first explaign to the wife later

[Rick Lee]

Doesn't look like a Rattler at all.

[Hugh R]

Might be, I saw him slide under the bed. Didn't have much room to work.

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Does it matter is is a frigging snake IN THE HOUSE! Shoot first explaign to the wife later

Bull snake aka gopher snake is harmless and also a benefit. Why would you kill it?

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Does it matter is is a frigging snake IN THE HOUSE! Shoot first explaign to the wife later

Learn to spell nexr? Jus' kiddin' .

[trekkor]

"Hey!"

"Yeah?"

"You a rattler?"

"No!"

"OK"





KT

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by RWebb

good eatin!

+1, tasty

never had gopher snake before though

If you get a cat, it will keep the rodent population down, discourage the serpents

[Rick Lee]

I'm not sure how much effort I'd go through to rescue a non-venomous snake that was already inside my house. If it was venomous, I'd probably be moved to hit it was .22 rat shot and be prepared to repair whatever else I damaged in the house. I need to build a snake stick anyway, so I don't have to do what Hugh did. I could not harm a venomous snake.

[VincentVega]

snake that was already inside my house.

That's a dead snake in my house.

[Normy]

I hate I hate I HATE rattlesnakes! They are all over the place here in Florida. I've never killed one in my yard, but I do have a rattlesnake story-

Orlando, 2002: I was living in south Orlando, and knew about a junkyard out east of town that had a couple of old 928 hulks sitting burried up to their axles in mud. I had a day off and nothing to do, so I climbed into my 1966 Ford F100 ["Happy Truck"] and burned some oil up to Bithlo. Upon encountering said partially-submerged V8 supercars...I noticed that one of them, a 1979 model....had a **PERFECT UN-CRACKED INSTRUMENT POD**-!

Holy Ben-Wa Balls Batman-!

[For those of you not familiar with the 928 world, an un-cracked original instrument pod is the HOLY GRAIL of 928 parts! Typically, these can sell for between $400 and $600. It is possible to re-finish a pod, or install a plastic cover over a pod; but the really desireable part is an uncracked original pod.]

Upon seeing this, I went back to the counter and asked the Puerto Rican 20-year old working there what he wanted for the "instrument cover" on that old Porsche out back...

"Fourty bucks mang" he said. Listen...I didn't walk back to that car...I ran! Actually, I think I was "skipping" I was so f*cking happy! I reached the car with my tools, and pulled the drivers door open...

"tch tch ch ch ch chchchchcchch!" I heard. Sure enough, sitting on the passenger floor board of the dilapidated car was a "bell-boy" about 3 feet long.

mm Hmm. Un-cracked pod versus rattlesnake?: I decided the bastard's fate in milliseconds! I think I actually used the "MF" word at that point. I looked around, and noticed that the side trim of the Volvo next to the car was loose. I pulled it off and me and Mr. Snake went to battle. I won- he decided that the flailing Volvo trim wasn't worth the passenger side floorboard of a 928 and beat a hasty retreat out the cracked-open passenger door. I pulled the pod in 15 minutes and "skipped" back to the parts counter. Normy scores! I now have a perfect pod as a result!

-If I found a rattlesnake in the yard, I'd get the shovel.

-If I found a COTTONMOUTH in the yard, the .410 is coming out; damn the neighbors!

Rattlesnakes are annoying and nothing more. What is really nasty is a cottonmouth! Rattlesnakes only get nervous if you approach them and they cannot escape. Goddamn cottonmouths will cross the yard or cross the canal to try to attack you! These I can do without.

N!

[sjf911]

Interesting. I guess I got desensitized to snakes growing up in central Texas. We had coral snakes, water moccasins, copper heads, and rattle snakes literally all over the place. We also had lots of nonvenomous snakes around including bull snakes that were always trying to sneak into the house and sometimes had to be manually escorted out. Never had a venomous one in the house, though (on the driveway sunning itself once in a while).
You just need to get very good a identifying venomous from nonvenomous if you're going to live in snake country. Best not to learn the hard way though.

[daepp]

Looks like a gopher snake to me. That said, while non venomous, they are mean as hell!

[DARISC]

Few years back was at a business dinner w/a client who'd never eaten chicken! He decided to give it a try and said "tastes just like rattlesnake".