Aside from one comment reminding us all that the snakes are a protected species, most of the comments sound like Freepers
To: cripplecreek
To: cripplecreek
Did anyone suggest the boy would make a fine preacher?
:P
3 posted on
08/22/2010 4:22:20 PM PDT by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: cripplecreek
Pigs eat snakes. If you have a poisonous snake infestation, get a pet pig.
6 posted on
08/22/2010 4:29:43 PM PDT by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: cripplecreek
7 posted on
08/22/2010 4:29:49 PM PDT by
Squawk 8888
(TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
To: cripplecreek
9 posted on
08/22/2010 4:34:30 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: cripplecreek
I moved to Texas from Michigan in 1975. I bump into a lot of people who think that rattlesnakes are all over the place down here. However, in these many years I have seen only four snakes outside a zoo, and only one was alive, well, before the truck in front of me ran over him.
I camp and hike -- four snakes ain't bad.
14 posted on
08/22/2010 4:47:05 PM PDT by
Slyfox
To: cripplecreek
When a friend of mine was a teenager, he and some other guys were playing catch with a copperhead and it bit him on the arm. His arm swelled to the size of his thigh.
To: cripplecreek
That kid ought to take some lessons from Jean-Claude Van Damme!
To: cripplecreek
Protected species my @$$. I have a .38 with rat-shot that has killed dozens of rattlers. Even if there is a type that is 'protected', the three S rule applies.
/johnny
To: cripplecreek
Uncle who owned farm in Western NJ used to see copperheads
and swamp rattlers all the time near his farm
Once my aunt was hanging wash out when copperhead came slithering up
Called my uncle who ran it over with pickup......
22 posted on
08/22/2010 5:05:53 PM PDT by
njslim
To: cripplecreek
Good luck checking the yard, if they're in the leaves and don't move you probably won't see them. The Florida version is the Dusky Pygmy Rattler. I've killed several of them at the County Arboretum and in my yard, I know what to look for, in my experience most people don't.
Why one of the volunteer gardeners at the arboretum hasn't been hit is beyond me, God must really love them.
25 posted on
08/22/2010 5:18:31 PM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
To: cripplecreek
He was 7. That’s 2 years younger than I was when I tried to grab a water moccasin. My parents took me and the snake to the hospital (the snake for identification). I got anti-venom and tetanus shots and then a surgeon spent over an hour removing broken snake teeth and fangs from my wound. That was 54 years ago in Annapolis, Maryland.
33 posted on
08/22/2010 5:46:40 PM PDT by
BuffaloJack
(Obama, the Criminal, is BAD for AMERICA.)
To: cripplecreek
Basically an Eastern Diamondback, right?
Largest viper in North America, IIRC.
36 posted on
08/22/2010 5:58:32 PM PDT by
djf
(They ain't "immigrants". They're "CRIMMIGRANTS"!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
No chance this will be spun as evidence of AGW, at least. Thanks cc.
41 posted on
08/22/2010 7:13:14 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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