Posted on 04/19/2017 7:25:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“The electrician had gone around the side of the house and froze when he saw the snake, it had him pinned up so he didn’t want to move,” he said.
“Putting a bucket over the snake can be dangerous because you’re within the strike range, it’s better to throw the towel from a small distance to keep you out of that range.
“Cats will often chase a snake and because their teeth are sharp and cylinder shaped they will bite and the wound will close up but because of the bacteria in a cat’s mouth which can be quite dangerous for the snake’s health.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake
Snake catcher Sean Cade of Australian Snake Catchers ...KEPT HIS DISTANCE!
Just one of the millions of ways you can die in Australia
EVERYTHING in Australia will kill you..................usually quickly...........
So the Land Doun Under is most likely 6 feet down under???
But the Citizens of Australia are extremely friendly and helpful.
My sister and family lived there for a while.
Suppose AUS has the world’s 10 most deadly animals... and more people die from cows than those 10 combined.
I would imagine that the Aussies have learned how to survive, but foreigners have a steep learning curve.
Spiders, snakes and even ANTS!................
That particular kind of snake is more dangerous than it appears. I first thought it was just a baby ball python.
Around two years ago, some Brit couple had flown down to Australia and wandered off onto some beach. Gal got bit while walking across the sand...dead within an hour.
I went last year...hanging out mostly in Melbourne. Spent one day at the ‘Twelve Apostles’...probably one of the more scenic places on the face of the Earth. When you walk from the parking lot to the coastal viewing area....there’s one sign up...”Watch for Snakes”. I spent every single moment of that walk to the coast doing a 360-degree view of things around me.
I used to wonder why it took so long for Europeans to ‘discover’ Australia.
Now I know.
All the previous ones died before they could report back....................
A snake found it’s way into a yard. Wow, that’s never happened before.
ISIS, pedophiles, and eastern brown snakes are two of the many reasons GOD created 12 Gauge shotguns.
When that first ship landed in 1788...no one talks about the first week there but there had to be at least five or six guys snake-bit. There’s a city-park in Sydney....probably one of the finest urban parks in the world....but you need to keep a 360-degree of everything around you.
Holy cow. It looks so harmless.
I’ve forgotten more about snakes than I remember...that’s why I don’t assume one isn’t poisonous. And, I’ve captured a lot of them over my life.
They’re just like mushrooms. Just because they’re there, I don’t slice’em up and put’em on a salad.
“That particular kind of snake is more dangerous than it appears.”
RVN had the famous “step and a half”, the more gullible called it a “two step.
Also the “cigarette snake”, maybe enough time for a last cigarette?
They are all dangerous, some more so.
First round birdshot,seconed buckshot than a slug?
Let’s not forget the duck billed platypus with venomous spurs on his hind legs.
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