Posted on 08/23/2005 11:43:23 AM PDT by girlangler
Tell me about it. I used to live in Woodville Texas and we killed about six copperheads in our yard there.
One event bit my cat.
Got one here for ya Taz...
A real whacko!
Ms.B
What a complete total idiot.
First, apparently he knows nothing about identifying anaked, just picks one up!
Our "friendly reptile" defends itself, probly hitting moron several times.
Then to cap it all off, genius waits 4 hours before he seeks medical attention.
Unbelievable
Thank You!
There's a Jefferson parish in Louisiana. Might have been down here (good place for snakes).
Do you know that it is actually illegal to kill a rattlesnake or copperhead in Tennessee?
It is, they are on the threatened species list. However, this is rarely enforced.
A few years ago I was working as an editor of an outdoor magazine and I received a news release from the state wildlife agency. There was a blurb about this guy they had busted for poaching bears in the Cherokee National Forest and, as part of the investigation they raided his freezer at his house and found more than 100 poisonous snakes in it.
So they got him for that too.
When I got the release I just couldn't figure out why anyone would want frozen snakes so I called the TWRA and asked.
"Oh he's one of those good religious guys," said the officer. "You know, one of those snake-handling preachers."
See we have some hillbillys here in Tennessee that handle snakes during their church services. Most of them have a short lifespan and it helps to clean up the gene pool in these parts.
Can you imagine this guy dancing around the church with his FROZEN snakes?
Watch it mister. I take offense to any one that would harm my Red Tailed Boa.
Sometimes I wish posters would give a little more information in their thread titles.
"He likes to feed bears and stop traffic so ducks can walk across the road. Not too long ago, he tried to revive a bumblebee, keeping it in the palm of his hand with some water until it buzzed away two hours later, said John Bross, a friend and neighbor."
I can just see it, one day his neighbors will come across a bear feeding on his bee-stung and bloated carcass in the road where he was hit after trying to stop traffic for some ducks.
"Probably a spy for Enron."
NAH -- James Carville's right-wing brother!
No, I think this idiot actually feeds bears.
Oh, man, I saw this Ahole trying to get us to slow for Canadian Geese once. They were a good ways off the road but he was signaling for us to slow down. I whizzed by and should have given him the finger.
I have issues with anyone who feeds the damn bears. I catch 'em they're going to court and paying big fines. One "Weekend only" neighbor used to put food out Sunday Night before he left. We were thick with bears that summer. He was convicted 3 times. I wish he'd have been locked up for a good bit to set the measure home.
The snake or my daughters...hhhmmmm.
I didn't know Tennessee had a law against killing these snakes. I don't think Georgia does.
I take offense to any one that would harm my Red Tailed Boa.
Is that the one that you wouldn't loan me to wear to the "'04 Tranny Awards"? I'd run that over too.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
When we lived in the Georgia country, my husband and I came across a carload of folks in a car with the front tires on one side of a huge snake and the back tires on the other side. They were afraid to run all the way over the snake for fear it would bite a hole in their tires. They had all the windows rolled up - and , mind you, it was 100 degrees outside.
Poor folks.
Now one knows why fifth column democrats are called copperheads. They always bite the hands of those who would help them.
Of course the guy was an idjit, every good ole redneck knows you stomp a copperhead's bloody head off before picking them up.
I bet he was confused for a bit as well. I mean he was TRYING TO HELP the snake, how could it hurt him? All you have to do is hug the monsters and find out they really only have a thorn in their paw, they aren't really dangerous. We just need to UNDERSTAND them. Right?
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