[pepsionice]

In high school...we had a local kid...around 16....who was water skiing and ran into a nest of them...he was dead within ten minutes. In Bama....I’ll bet five or six guys die each year from incidents like that. They don’t collect data like that because it’d scare folks too much.

[poobear]

Sorry about your friend.

I've had this bastards chase me out of the water. If a mother moccasin has a nest of babies nearby watch out! We used to go around the beaches and hack them with machetes around the lake I grew up on. They eventually retreated to the south side of the lake where there were no houses.

[muawiyah]

Snakebite deaths are recorded and reported worldwide. The US has about a dozen such cases per year. India has gobs of them, and Australia, for its population, kinda' leaps off the charts.

I grew up in rattlesnake/copperhead country ~ you could encounter as many as 4 kinds of rattlers, several subspecies of copperheads (differentiated only by highly educated herpitologists), and, if you got down to Posey County, you could encounter a cottonmouth every now and then.

Best way to deal with poisonous snakes is to STAY AWAY. Find out what habitat they like locally, and don't go there.

In India highly poisonous snakes inhabit and love essentially the same habitat as human beings Besides, they are bigger! This leads to a higher number of snakebite deaths than here. However, my friends from India say they are taught the same lessons I learned ~ stay out of their habitat PLUS don't let your neighborhood get overrun with rats and mice or you will attract a big snake!

[muawiyah]

Snakebite deaths are recorded and reported worldwide. The US has about a dozen such cases per year. India has gobs of them, and Australia, for its population, kinda' leaps off the charts.

I grew up in rattlesnake/copperhead country ~ you could encounter as many as 4 kinds of rattlers, several subspecies of copperheads (differentiated only by highly educated herpitologists), and, if you got down to Posey County, you could encounter a cottonmouth every now and then.

Best way to deal with poisonous snakes is to STAY AWAY. Find out what habitat they like locally, and don't go there.

In India highly poisonous snakes inhabit and love essentially the same habitat as human beings Besides, they are bigger! This leads to a higher number of snakebite deaths than here. However, my friends from India say they are taught the same lessons I learned ~ stay out of their habitat PLUS don't let your neighborhood get overrun with rats and mice or you will attract a big snake!

[rabidralph]

Do you two know each other?

[big black dog]

In high school...we had a local kid...around 16....who was water skiing and ran into a nest of them

Legend: An unlucky water skier topples into a nest of deadly water moccasins