Posted on 02/01/2017 3:33:32 PM PST by bgill
A Jones County family experienced a nightmare come true when a rattlesnake slithered up inside their toilet last week.
Big Country Snake Removal says the family contacted them after finding the adult snake in their toilet.
When officials arrived on scene, the company investigated the property and found 24 rattlesnakes total in the family’s storm cellar and under the house. Five were babies and the rest were adults.
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I’m coming in late but in 1973 we we were scouting a rice paddy with a tree in the middle. Lt. told me to scout out the grove. About three quarters I heard something so Icrawled back and said there is a baby or SOMETHING crying up there. I told him it sounded like a baby and a freight train. He said go back and see if you see anything. I started crawling back and this old sgt. on his third trip said “Stay where you are.” He went to the LT. and all of a sudden we moved out. I asked SGT Bevoir what happened and he said I had crawled up on a King cobra (that is what was making that noise) and it probably was trailing me back and could (would) attack any of us including the LT.
Now that there is some serious sh*t.
Makes for difficult decisions when the tornado heads your direction. Dive into the storm celler with the rattlers, or risk the twister.
Yikes, imagine getting bitten on the backside.
That wouldn't be my number one worry.
I agree. Around here I am the designated spider, hornet and weird bug no one can identify killer. I do have a poorly developed sense of fear and am often not appropriately scared. I do posses a healthy respect for reptiles and usually give them as wide a wide berth when possible. I draw the line at in the house intrusions of pit vipers. I grew up in timber rattler country they are just plain mean. Later I lived in the South and discovered that adult cottonmouths make the timbers look almost friendly. Then I moved West and discovered Mojave Blues, those bastards will chase a human and are evolving to have no rattles.
Reminds me of what professional African hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick did on a safari. The camp had a brush screened outhouse and someone saw a Black Mamba slither into it.
Capstick went in and found nothing there, even searching everywhere. Nothing was found. A little later, he went back and burned it completely down. He did not want to take a chance with a Black Mamba.
Well, they say if your drain is clogged you should snake it.
Don't be silly!
Al Franken can't possibly fit in a normal toilet bowl...!
I’ll bet this rattled the household!
Tried snake-a-way? I haven’t, just going by specs. 83%
Well, late to this party, but old farm houses and snakes, oh yeah!
Once upon a time one of my bosses decided to go country. Bought this old octagonal house out in the boonies and proceeded to fix it up. This was late fall or early winter.
Come spring, the yard was crawling with snakes! Non poisonous
variety.
It seems there was an old cistern for storing rain water just outside the back door where the critters gathered to hibernate.
The next day his city-girl wife had moved back to town.
Myself had striped snakes hibernate in the crawl-space of old farm house we were renting.
Come spring, first one to show up, I got some leather gloves and carried it to a field across the road. When I came back, there were 2 of them!
Took them out where the other one was left and when I returned again there were several more.
At which point, I just grabbed a hoe and started whacking.
*Why* on earth would I ever want to keep snakes *away*?
I beg people, I’ve offered to *pay* people, to bring me all their unwanted snakes.
My area is lousy with wood rats/pack rats and since the wussies wiped out most of the snakes, we’ve been under siege.
I have to hide my goat feed in the machine shop, they’re such a plague.
The more snakes, the better.
Why? Because I’m a grandpa who has toddler grandkids in rattlesnake country in Texas. Wood rats & pack rats fear my house in the pacific NW. I’ve been fighting them and winning. Now moles are a different problem.
I would think you might included adding a goodly number of harmless King or Rat Snakes to your property.
I live in the heart of Copperhead and Eastern Timber Rattler country and I have not seen either for over 40 years.
A place where rat snakes run free is free of vipers.
They eat them.
After looking at those pics I’m super gluing my ahole shut.
“What “courage”?”
In Jackson’s culture, real herpetophobia is quite common, meaning it probably took him some guts to do the movie.
Of course, my poor, long suffering mother also had a good case of herpetophiaia. One of our next door neighbor’s favorite memories of mom is her standing on the back porch with an absolutely sick look on her face while she held a pair of my jeans at arm’s length, carefully turning the pockets out.
Lol.
I did visit Maine on a trip to that part of the USA. It's very nice. Small but nice. The folks there were nice but they WOULD be if they were involved in tourism.
What makes you think that where I live is FLAT? Lol.
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Glad to hear that about Maine snakes. Your deserts are benign. :o)
Surprisingly, in my snake forums, at least a third of snake owners are black.
Given demographics in general, they’re actually over-represented in the hobby.
:)
Thanks, great story...
and thank you soldier for your service to our country!
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