OT snake in the grass.

Sniper,

You need some snake venom, a big old hunting knife and the nerve to slice yourself to suck the venom out...........LOL.  Glad it was you and not me.  I would have run all the way to the Mexican border.

Hope you were wearing tall boots.

Kitt

Us manly men dont run for the border or have to catch a leapin heart,,,we just crap our pants. Lucky for me I didn't need to go at the time.

I don't like spiders and snakes...man I just got that song out of my head and you put it back.

Can you come protect me? I once sprinted across the back lawn because I saw a garter snake (hey you never know what will come from the back fields). My husband went out and removed the offender by hand...no not brave-he's just not afraid of sticks that fall from trees. Well...it really did look like snake honest!

Stkitt ,,that cut the area and suck the poison out would not work for me as I could not bend my old body enough to reach the bite. Reminds me of the two guys hunting together when one sat down and was bit on the butt by a snake. His friend called 911 and the doc told him to do the cut and suck out the poison thing. When his bitten friend asked what the doc said, he told him ,,,,,,the doc said your going to die.

Well my pet snakes are most offended by this wanton act of snake-icide. They reside in tanks next to my computer, and happily consumed rats this very weekend, but you have now upset their digestion. I may box them up and send them to Louisiana to seek revenge . . .

Mike , send them. The crabs here think they taste just like chicken. I disagree but crabs are less picky .A snake in a tank and a snake in the yard are two dif. creatures. Any time you wish, you can come down here and handle the moccasins, copper heads , coral snakes or cane break rattlers . All others are free to roam around my yard , but those guys get chopped up into crab food. What about that rat ? Bet he is not a snake lover either. By the way, the constricters that got loose in Florida during hurricane Andrew or multiplying and moving up the coast. They tend to get very large and eat peoples pet dogs and cats. I have not had one show up in my yard yet but would not mind at all....I could use a nice set of snake skin boots...

I actually caught a healthy fat copperhead some years back and took it home to keep for a while. Seems it was an expectant mother who promptly delvered six squirming babies. So yeah I'll stop by and hook a few one of these days . . .

Sniper said...
This weekend I was working on my boat and needed some tools from the shop. I sweat a lot when working and take my glasses off or I cant see. On the way up the yard I came close to stepping on what I call, Old Mister No Neck...

What kind of snake was it?

I've had more than my share of snake encounters here in Taiwan. One story even relates to my Crohn's. I had a sudden urgent need to use the toilet, so I just sort of ran into the bathroom, dropped my pants and sat down. Then I noticed out the corner of my eye what seemed like a slight movement. Turned around to find a habu snake sitting on top of the toilet tank, coiled up in striking position with its fangs exposed. You've never seen someone get off the toilet so fast. I hopped down the hallway to my storage room to retrieve a machete and came back, with my pants still down around my knees. The snake was quickly dispatched.

Here in Taiwan, we've got a number of snakes that you're probably not familiar with. I mentioned the habu above, but that one isn't very deadly (though getting bit by one is surely no fun). Last week I killed a "hundred pacer." It takes its name from the fact that if it bites you, expect to walk no more than 100 paces before dropping dead.

Link to a photo and info about 100 pacers:
http://www.geocities.com/gnnyil/taiwanwildlife.html

I usually use an iron bar or machete to dispatch a snake, but the last one I killed by running it over with my car. Had to run it over five times before it finally stopped moving.

Never a dull moment.

best regards,
Robert

dang sniper! i saw thetitle about 'snake in the grass" and i thought you had an update on snohare or VV! ;0)

Ha! When I was a kid I used to chase the boys w/a garden/garder snake. Now? ANY snake can send me beating the record 4 minute mile.

C2, somehow I always pictured you chasing the boys with a garder snake. Aint it great to just scare the peewadly out of people sometimes.
Randy, old VV dont come around here no more because he's scared of my spelling. I dont know about Snohare but I miss his humor. Had a bite of its own.
Humbold, Was that guy named MIKE ? I would never pick up a snake that I was not sure of . Even then they are much easier to handel when the head is removed with a quick strike of a machete. We have lots of large water snakes here and I have grabbed a few of them along with ribbon snakes and coach whips but even those will give you a nasty but nonpoisonous bite so its always best to grab them on the business end. They dont bother me when I see them, its the ones that surprise you that get to me. I was working under my uncles house doing some plumbing years ago when I felt something up my pant leg. I had a very bad feeling I knew what it was. Slid myself slowly out from under the house and shook out a small ground rattler. Now that gives you the heebejeebes...

Well, aren't you boys a bunch of Indiana Jones'!! I really enjoyed reading over these funny stories. I'll be buying myself a machete ASAP, as it seems to be the tool of choice.