Snakes for sale

[Kman34]

Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

I was out hiking the other day with the missus, about a four mile loop on a very narrow trail with tall grass on each side. About 3/4 finished we came across a full grown rattlesnake laying on the trail in the sun. He noticed us and backed up a couple of feet to the edge of the grass but was still on the trail more or less. He wasn't using his rattle or looked agitated in any way but he was keeping an eye on us. Taking a detour around the snake would have been impossible because of the tall grass and possibility of more snakes. Returning the way we came is a possibility but it's backtracking another three miles uphill basically.

My question to you snake experts, should I have tried and shooed it away into the grass? I could have waited it out but who knows how long it'll just sit there. What is the best course of action?

Send your wife first to draw the snake away from you... if she gets bit you can suck out the venom... at the very least you got by unharmed..

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Kman34

Send your wife first to draw the snake away from you... if she gets bit you can suck out the venom... at the very least you got by unharmed..

At some point in the past we talked about rattlesnake bites here, and I did an image search on "rattlesnake bites". After seeing some pictures, I would not go near a rattlesnake.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

I was out hiking the other day with the missus, about a four mile loop on a very narrow trail with tall grass on each side. About 3/4 finished we came across a full grown rattlesnake laying on the trail in the sun. He noticed us and backed up a couple of feet to the edge of the grass but was still on the trail more or less. He wasn't using his rattle or looked agitated in any way but he was keeping an eye on us. Taking a detour around the snake would have been impossible because of the tall grass and possibility of more snakes. Returning the way we came is a possibility but it's backtracking another three miles uphill basically.

My question to you snake experts, should I have tried and shooed it away into the grass? I could have waited it out but who knows how long it'll just sit there. What is the best course of action?

I would have pulled out my massive penis. Everyone knows rattlesnakes are scared of bigger snakes.

[oldman]

Originally Posted by L.A. Chieffan

My question to you snake experts, should I have tried and shooed it away into the grass? I could have waited it out but who knows how long it'll just sit there. What is the best course of action?

A Model 1911 .45 works nicely for me.

[Rain Man]

I appreciate the link, by the way. My niece had a baby a while back, and it seems like a children's python would be a perfect 1st birthday gift.

[cabletech94]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I appreciate the link, by the way. My niece had a baby a while back, and it seems like a children's python would be a perfect 1st birthday gift.

This might be the best and most logical response that could have been made.

My god I love all of you people!!!

[banyon]

I'm with Indiana Jones on the snakes, thanks.

[Otter]

I've never met a person that I want to sip a bourbon with and have a conversation that owned a ferret or a reptile.

Dogs are a great mediator in finding common ground. Hell, include cats and I'm not the biggest cat fan. But when someone says "meet my snake" you're pretty much off my Christmas Card list.

[D.A.P.]

A lot of hookers own snakes.

[tatorhog]

I've got an asshole snake that lives in my garage you can have for free if you come get him. If the bastard would ever leave the confines of said garage, or I could see him anywhere other than by stuff I don't want to risk having a bullet hole in, I'd be a much happier person.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Never heard of an ‘asshole snake’ before.

Hate to think how that snake got its name . . . . .

[tatorhog]

Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin

Never heard of an ‘asshole snake’ before.

Hate to think how that snake got its name . . . . .

that asshole snake always seems to know just when to lay where I'm about to walk as I come around the corner, etc. Its either by the back of the car, or something else that I really don't want a 22 hole in. And every time, even if I do get my old trusty Winchester, the asshole has gone on to his hiding hole, wherever that may be.

One of these days though, his cockiness will catch up to him.

[cabletech94]

Originally Posted by tatorhog

that asshole snake always seems to know just when to lay where I'm about to walk as I come around the corner, etc. Its either by the back of the car, or something else that I really don't want a 22 hole in. And every time, even if I do get my old trusty Winchester, the asshole has gone on to his hiding hole, wherever that may be.

One of these days though, his cockiness will catch up to him.

You know why he won’t leave, right?

It rhymes with “ Jewve hot bats “.

I love your CP name by the way, very nice. Always wanted to compliment you.

[tatorhog]

Originally Posted by cabletech94

You know why he won’t leave, right?

It rhymes with “ Jewve hot bats “.

I love your CP name by the way, very nice. Always wanted to compliment you.

It’s a detached Morton building so I don’t hate that he out there earning a keep, but he could go back to our understanding that he stays on the other side of the driveway.

And thanks for the love. The name goes way back to my college days. Old buddy who I haven’t talked to in years and I came up with the names as a means to identify each other on some shenanigans we would pull. It just stuck I guess.

[Shiver Me Timbers]

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