Are you afraid of snakes?

[tastybasslines]

I am. They creep me OUT! Especially ones like this.

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That is friggin HUGE for a rattler.

 

[MatticusMania]

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.

 

[etoncrow]

I watched a documentary yesterday that stated 100,000 people are killed by snakes annually worldwide.

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

trouser snakes

 

[elgecko]

I hate 'em when they're on a plane...oh wait, that's basses!

 

[6jase5]

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.

 

[Bloodhammer]

trouser snakes

Why? Are you in imminent danger of them?

 

[tastybasslines]

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.

 

[elgecko]

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!

 

[Bloodhammer]

I have snakes!

 

[tastybasslines]

Why? Are you in imminent danger of them?

LOL - can't wait to hear gecko's answer.

 

[Big B.]

I am. They creep me OUT! Especially ones like this.

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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.

 

[Unprofessional]

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.

 

[Jim Nazium]

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.

 

[DwaynieAD]

only scared if they startle me. worried about timber rattlers when I'm out hunting.

 

[Tituscrow]

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.

 

[iamlowsound]

I looked at that picture while on the can, puckered up real quick.

lowsound

 

[elgecko]

I'm not freaked out by snakes but the first time I saw one swimming made me think twice about skinny dipping!

LOL - can't wait to hear gecko's answer.

Mr. Mohawk is the one with the trouser snake issues!

 

[tastybasslines]

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?

 

[TOOL460002]

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.