LOL. I think we may have freeped about this before.
I have spent too many hours on FR (when I should have been working) and had too many pings to remember them all.
I don’t suppose I ever told you the story about the snake handling preacher up in this area that got busted by the state wildlife agency for having more than 100 poisonous snakes in his freezer (nah, I don’t repeat myself). When he wasn’t preachin’ he was poaching bears. That’s what got him busted, he got caught poaching bears.
When they went to his property to inspect it for bear parts they found the frozen snakes.
See, killing a copperhead or rattler is unlawful here now, since they are on the threatened species list (it’s true, although unbelievable, check it out). The wildlife agency doesn’t really enforce this hard, or they’d have hillbillies shooting them. If a snake threatens you and you whack it nobody knows, or cares. But if you get caught with more than 100 of them (when you just happened to be in trouble for bear poaching and selling the parts, a federal offense, then you are in some deep do do).
This old snake handling preacher didn’t quite trust his faith enough to be tested on live snakes, so he froze his, then thawed ‘em out when he was testing the faith of his flock of believers.
It’s a true story.