Posted on 06/29/2004 7:20:50 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
(KSL News) -- A man walks into a crowded bar in Idaho Falls, and chucks a rattlesnake into a crowd of people.
That's what 28-year old Rodger Hunter Jr. is accused of doing on Monday.
Hunter has since been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon.
Police say he walked into the bar, pulled a three-and-a-half foot long rattler from his large pocket and threw it into a crowd and ran away.
Bar patrons used a crutch to sweep away the angry snake, then threw a t-shirt over it before picking it up.
No one was hurt.
Hunter could face up to five years in prison if convicted.
"Is that a rattlesnake in your pocket...?"
Cut him some slack. At least it wasn't a lit cigarette.
fire away
Now we have to worry about Assault Snake Bans next I guess.
Crikey!
This poor fellow was lucky to escape with all his skin - a dead rattler is just as poisonous as a live one it turns out; unless, of course, one milked it first.
They don't strike quite as fast though.
It was spring in the old west. The cowboys rode the still snow choked trails looking for cattle that survived the winter.
As one cowboy's horse went around the narrow trail, it came upon a rattlesnake warming itself in the spring sunshine.
The horse reared and the cowboy drew his six-gun to shoot the snake.
"Hold on there, partner," said the snake, "don't shoot- I'm an enchanted rattlesnake, and if you don't shoot me, I'll give you any three wishes you want."
The cowboy decided to take a chance. He knew he was safely out of the snake's striking range.
He said, "OK, first, I'd like to have a face like Clark Gable, then, I'd like a build like Arnold Schwarzenegger, and finally, I'd like sexual equipment like this here horse I'm riding."
The rattlesnake said, "All right, when you get back to the bunk house you'll have all three wishes."
The cowboy turned his horse around and galloped at full speed all the way to the bunk house. He dismounted on the run and went straight inside to the mirror.
Staring back at him in the mirror was the face of Clark Gable.
He ripped the shirt off his back and revealed bulging, rippling muscles, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Really excited now, he tore down his jeans, looked at his crotch and shouted, "Oh no! I was riding the mare!"
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