Posted on 01/11/2024 4:24:40 PM PST by CFW
A home renovation project in Arizona turned into a risky game of hide-and-seek after a den of western diamondback rattlesnakes was discovered living behind the shower walls.
It happened at a home in Tonopah, and video shared by the snake catching service Rattlesnake Solutions shows it took cutting holes in the wall and ceiling to catch the snakes.
Four were removed in a series of hair-raising encounters in November and December, videos show.
In one case, a worker stuck his hand in the ceiling to find a gas line and heard something rattling. Days later, he looked up to see a rattlesnake “reversing his way down backwards, like he was backing into a parking spot down into the wall.”
“That was crazy. I’m really glad that they rattled at him,” veteran snake catcher Marissa Maki says in one of the videos.
“You’re not thinking when digging into your wall that you’re going to run into rattlesnakes. It’s just not something that’s probably on your mind. It’s on in his mind now.”
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Yikes.
Goes to show that not all snakes are in DC or city council chambers or statehouses.
Most are.
On the upside, they never had any problems with rats.
taste like chicken.
Opening a wall sometimes reveals a dead body.
Amazingly simple search showed probably 20 different stores (some repeats).
dead body hidden in wall
CNN.com
Joann Nichols was reported missing in 1985 and her body was found behind a false wall in her late husband’s house.
I always wanted to try it
If walls could hiss..
Oh wait..
Sounds allegorical of our own government. Trump’s administration was the removal of the bathroom wall.
My Great-Uncle had a couple cottonmouths in his walls..........
Apparently, a lot of people hide the body through home renovations. I’m curious though what they do about the smell.
Lye sometimes helps. Other chemicals, too.
Hope I’m not helping the wrong people too much on this topic.
I will now bet a nickel (for charity) that very few here knew about this one:
https://noodor.com/products/natural-corpse-odor-removal-powder
“Made in the USA”
The rattlers have been around there for a long time. They're not about to go quickly and quietly.
NOPE.
Mineral Point Wisconsin, guessing about 20 to 25 years ago. They where renovating the fair grounds. It was February, they dug into and found a den of 1500 eastern diamond backs. No one knew there where any rattlesnakes in the area. Just a hunch, but killing the loud ones over a couple of hundred years, left the quite offspring. Took out a few in Georgia when I was there, found by the dogs.
Let this be a cautionary tale for all you Californians contemplating a relocation to this unbearably hot hellhole of a state.
Thanks for the tips. I don’t think I’ll ever need them though. Not for a body anyway.
I remember reading an old western story of a band of bandits who fled to their hideout. A posse found them and after a shootout nothing was heard from inside. The next morning they found the entire gang dead of...rattlesnakes. they had built their hideout over a den.
The illustration showed the gang all in a nice pile with rattle snakes around them.
Wish I could find that illustration again.
Those would be Timbers or Massasaugas ...Easterns don't get any farther north than southeastern NC
I stand corrected, living in GA for a time goofed up my snake locator, Easterns there.
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