Driver Finds Four Poisonous Snakes in Box ["So I went over and kicked the box!"

AP ^ | 5/17/04

[aardvark1]

Pizon! I bought one fer ma boy once fer Christmas. You want one fer yer boy. "Rock of ages, cleft fer me..." One of the best scenes ever from an "Earnest" movie.

[N. Theknow]

The Arkansas Bar Association is going to be wondering why their officers are late for the meeting.

[Barlowmaker]

My friend told me a story that is bushman legend and has been pretty much verified: that one black mamba killed a dozen shepherds from Rhodesia in a single scrum. He told me another black mamba killed seven villagers in one night before being captured and living out its life peacefully in a zoo. Some of the Adders actually kill more people in Africa, but no snake kills multiple "threats" with the efficiency and quickness of a mamba. Magnificent serpent.

[gargoyle]

...Here's a fact, snakes coil up to strike. They can only extend one third the length of their body to defend themselves...

...When nature calls you to stop in her world to urinate, calculate the distance between your snake and mother natures snake...

[cajun-jack]

didn't the story say "hillary reared her ugly head"???

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

I hate snakes

[theDentist]

Are the Clintons' in Arkansas?

No. Arkansas had a choice between the Clintons and a box full of large, hungry, angry, venomous snakes and chose wisely.

[Feiny]

Om my lord...your poor mother! How did she get the clothes out?

A friend of ours was a reptile dealer many years back & he had both a cobra & a black mamba. The black mamba escaped once due to a very stupid friend....that snake tracked them around the house. They were being hunted. Luckily, my friend was able to recapture it.

[vetvetdoug]

She tells the story often but never said how she got the little critters out!! Our neighbors thought our family strange because my mother would always make me turn my pockets inside out and pull my trousers off before I entered the house after that episode. Little did they know what event triggered that small idiosyncrasy unique to me and my mother.

[Riley]

I will never forget my friend kicking a box while we were walking in the desert. It had a battery in it and he broke his foot.
LOL never ever kick a box if you dont know what is in it.

I heard a story once in the East Bay Area about a guy who saw a cardboard box in the middle of Highway 4 and ran over it, just for the heck of it.

It had apparently fallen off a truck, and it contained a small safe.

[Feiny]

It is amazing all the stupid things we did as kids and managed to survive. We lived near a man made lake & were told by the adults that there were snake pits at the bottom. The area did have water moccasins and cottonmouths....so naturally we would jump off the docks and try to land in the snake pits.

[Riley]

The "kickball" was a 16 lb bowling ball my mastiff played with, and the dude was barefoot.

That hurts just reading it.

[Colofornian]

Only in Arkansas

A Jay Leno skit last year was mentioning secondary uses of common products found in fine print on the products. For the products, "Depends," the fine print read: "May be used as indoor plumbing in Arkansas."

[gargoyle]

...Interesting post. I never did do venomous snakes. Lots of non-vens. They are facinating animals. In the CZ, I encountered a nest(?) of Fer de Lances'. The Bushmaster was another one to avoid down there...

...What you don't know, can kill. When you start "Pettin" learn your human limitations and know your pets behavior...

[theFIRMbss]

"It's a tale of two great snakes
that snake great together: Giant reptiles
battle to the death — with hapless humans
as the prize! David Hewlett (the new SCI FI Original
series Stargate Atlantis) and Angel Boris
(SCI FI Pictures' Dragon Storm and Epoch: Evolution) star."

"WORLD PREMIERE: Saturday, May 22, at 9PM ET/PT"

[flying Elvis]

If I kicked a box full of snakes, let alone venemous ones, you would have to cut the grass in that area once a day for several years.

[B4Ranch]

Those African mambas are cheaper than a divorce! I guess that's why they're illegal in the US. I doubt there is an antivenin anywhere in the US for them.

The Mrs. and I are still on great terms with each other. (As far as I know)

[B4Ranch]

Did you commune with nature or your pant leg?

[Riley]

My friend told me a story that is bushman legend and has been pretty much verified: that one black mamba killed a dozen shepherds from Rhodesia in a single scrum. He told me another black mamba killed seven villagers in one night before being captured and living out its life peacefully in a zoo. Some of the Adders actually kill more people in Africa, but no snake kills multiple "threats" with the efficiency and quickness of a mamba. Magnificent serpent.

Steve Irwin sometimes scares me. He had one 'Crocodile Hunter' episode where he went to Africa to pester various venemous things. He rolls up in a village and runs into a hut that has a Black Mamba in it, to catch it. He chasing after Black and Green Mambas (up into the trees with them), a HUGE Puff Adder, and these nasty large scorpions.

[B4Ranch]

I can't stop!!!!!!! ROTFLMA