To Kill Snake or not kill Snake

“I sink ze only vay to kill a snake is to use bombs and automatic weapons - just kiddink! But doingk zat vould be goot in von uff my moovies.”

“Keep your a$$ out of the woods, dik!”

“More snakes; less people.”

“My post was knee jerk. I have since gone back and read the other posts.

Little Rob:
How dare you deprive scouts of the possibility of seeing an animal in the wild... isn´t that a part of scouting?

Kill mice? Whattafuh? Take precautions against mousal damages. If you need to ask how to do that, you needn´t be in the backcountry.

There are no poisinous snakes in America; they're all edible. There's a few venomous ones, tho.

Robbie,
You don´t know how to get meat to a temperature adaquate for human consumption? What DO you know, son? Sheeeesh... whatta sorry excuse for a hiker you are.”

“D'oh! I can´t leave this one alone...

Big Rub -
I'm glad you weren't with me when:

I waded to within six feet of a (not for long) concealed six foot gator in Lake Whitney, Cumberland Island, GA.

I waded past a cottonmouth, and later a copperhead ("highland moccasin" to some) while negotiating the blackwater sloughs of the Yellow River, Conecuh Natl Forest, AL.

When I walked up on a griz in the Lemhi Range, ID.

You'da peed yerself, for sure.
Hell, you´d prolly fainted and drowned on the first two, and dropped dead on the last one...”

“BTW -
So's you will know...
a watersnake, while swimming, is entirely submerged except it's head. Moccasins and copperheads, hoeaver, look like they're crawling on the surface of the water.

I'd hate for you to senselessly kill an innocent yellow bellied or banded watersnake...”

“Good god gojo! You let those beasts live?”

“hoeaver=however”

“conk -
between you, me, and the lamp post...


I killed the griz with a stick.

Bluff charge? I´m not sure, but I wasn't gonna take the chance.”

“Gojo got his TT butt kicking when he described his daughter as hot. Batman Luke got his when he decided to hate civilians. Bearmagnet got his yesterday. It's just your turn. Try to remember if there was a requirement that you could have done nothing worse in your life than kill a snake in order to post this would be a very empty thread. I certainly wouldn't be able to post my drivel. You just had the misfortune to post on a website populated by perfect people.”

“I'd leave it alone.

Our Scouts are told in no uncertain terms that they are not to harm anything animal, vegatable or mineral. If it's potentially harmful (very few things are inheriently harmful usually you gotta make it an issue first) we avoid it. If we don't know what something is we take photos and look it up online when we get home.

We've seen lots of snakes out in the woods and no ones ever been hurt.”

“Snake #&%!$ -
Who rattled your cage? It wasn't me. Keep your nose out from where it belongeths not, K?”

“&%$" = $h!+”

“Snake eyes -
You have some mail...”

“Back to ya.”

“is it gojo's time of the month?

what's up, buddy? did the natty lite stash run dry?”

“Not the Nasty Lite...
but the, um... 'script.

My apologies to those I have offended.

BTW -
I've upgraded to Busch Lite - lol!”

“But I will say this...


I'd rather be struck by a pit viper four miles into the backcountry than die of boredem(sp?) at home/work/traffic...”

“When Danny Anderson went hunting for rattlesnakes with his dad outside Quincy, his father always told him to never touch a snake.

But Monday night, when a 5-foot rattler slithered onto his Yakitat Road property while the 53-year-old was feeding his horses, failing to heed his father's advice came back to bite him.

But it isn't as simple as all that. The snake that bit Anderson should have been dead.

He and his 27-year-old son Benjamin pinned the creature with an irrigation pipe and cut off its head with a shovel.

In fact, after hitting it with the shovel several times, the snake's head measuring about half the width of a tube of toothpaste ended up under a pickup.

"When I reached down to pick up the head, it raised around and did a backflip almost, and bit my finger," Anderson said. "I had to shake my hand real hard to get it to let loose."

The snake head ended up in the bed of his pickup and Anderson landed in Kadlec Medical Center until Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/9205374p-9121645c.html”

“I heard about this recently on the news. Yikes.”

“well, that bites”

“Not the best way to get a little head:(”

“I believe the technical term is dufus!”

“(maybe he should stick to drinking strychnine....)”

“WOW I remember this type of warning from the 1970's....HMM maybe they didn't cover that in his education.

or maybe it is true, Ignorance we can cure with education...stupidity is FOREVER.”

“WTF was the dumbass doing picking up a snake head?”

“yeah - every one knows the good meat is in the rest of the body and not the head”

“The only good snake is a dead snake!”

“look out, chili ---”

“http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020401/1367.html

take a look at this!!!!”

“Prevention

Physicians should educate their patients on ways to prevent snakebites, as prevention is far preferable to treatment. Many bites can be easily prevented by using common sense.

lol....like NOT picking them up even after death!!!!!!!”

“Wise words, Divinity.

I'll certainly not pick up a snake after I'm dead.

However, I have picked up a few while yet alive:)”