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03-19-2013, 09:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Are you afraid of snakes?
I am. They creep me OUT! Especially ones like this. 
That is friggin HUGE for a rattler.
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03-19-2013, 09:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I dont mind smaller snakes so much, but I dont like handling large ones.
My dad used to have a 9ft red tailed boa. Yeah, I kept my distance.
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03-19-2013, 10:02 AM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | I watched a documentary yesterday that stated 100,000 people are killed by snakes annually worldwide.
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03-19-2013, 10:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | trouser snakes
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03-19-2013, 10:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | I hate 'em when they're on a plane...oh wait, that's basses!  |
03-19-2013, 10:08 AM
|  | Pardon my driving, I'm reloading | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego/LA | | | I'm not personally afraid and was bitten before (not poisonous). I just stay away and I would never try to pick one up. My fear is that my daughter sees one and tries to say hello. That scares the "H -E double hockey sticks" out of me.
I occasionally watch the snake shows on TV and think "how stupid" not "how brave". Leave the darn things alone. |
03-19-2013, 10:08 AM
|  | Expendable | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Shreveport, Louisiana | | Quote:
Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk  trouser snakes | Why? Are you in imminent danger of them?
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03-19-2013, 10:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | I don't understand how the nature TV guys cozy up to them, like a million years of instinct isn't going to strike them in the face. Chills just writing this.
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03-19-2013, 10:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | You know how they have that rhyme to help you distinguish coral snakes from similarly colored snakes? I could never remember it so I wrote my own"
Yellow, red, and black? Stay the **** back! |
03-19-2013, 10:12 AM
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03-19-2013, 10:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodhammer Why? Are you in imminent danger of them? | LOL - can't wait to hear gecko's answer.
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03-19-2013, 10:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tastybasslines I am. They creep me OUT! Especially ones like this.
That is friggin HUGE for a rattler. | Normal non poisonous snakes, not so much. Snakes like that? Hell no! You would be lucky to get to the hospital if you were bitten a big boy like that. 
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03-19-2013, 10:19 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | | Snake up around the house = dead snake.
Snake out on the property = noted and avoided snake.
Snake out in woods = careful where you put your hands and feet; noted and avoided snake.
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03-19-2013, 10:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tastybasslines That is friggin HUGE for a rattler. | Wow, I didn't know they grew that big. I've seen plenty of rattlesnakes, but the biggest was probably 4 feet long. If I was out hiking and saw that, I'd run a 3-minute mile.
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03-19-2013, 10:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA | | | only scared if they startle me. worried about timber rattlers when I'm out hunting. |
03-19-2013, 11:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | Nope. Love 'em. But in not daft enough to put myself in a position where they can do me some damage.
Ditto Great White Sharks. |
03-19-2013, 11:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | I looked at that picture while on the can, puckered up real quick.
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03-19-2013, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | I'm not freaked out by snakes but the first time I saw one swimming made me think twice about skinny dipping! Quote:
Originally Posted by tastybasslines LOL - can't wait to hear gecko's answer. | Mr. Mohawk is the one with the trouser snake issues!  |
03-19-2013, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by elgecko I'm not freaked out by snakes but the first time I saw one swimming made me think twice about skinny dipping!
Mr. Mohawk is the one with the trouser snake issues! | Oh yeah...What do you have to say for yourself Mohawk? 
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03-19-2013, 12:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Santa Cruz CA | | | The part of the snake near your face has a big chunk ripped out. Please tell me you went in head first and chomped it to death like a crazy cave man.
I'm not at all afraid of snakes, because they want less to do with me than I do with them. I've been scuba diving and had a pair of sea snake swim past me and poke around in the coral. If they were in the mood I would've been a paralyzed, suffocating, soon-to-be-corpse somewhere in the Philippines.
The really dangerous ones are the baby rattlers. They haven't grown out their rattles yet, so you won't hear anything. They also don't have a good grasp on how much venom to use, so they just dump it all into you. At least the fangs aren't long enough to get through some rugged leather boots. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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