Re: A few to make you laugh

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/28/2020 7:26 PM, RTS wrote:
> On 4/28/2020 4:50 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 4/28/2020 2:30 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 12:55:07 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> Reminds me if another story.
>>>
>>> Two guys down in Florida decide they're going to go hunting. They
>>> figure they'll camp on the edge of the glades overnight and head out
>>> to the glades in the morning. As they're setting up camp, Joe goes
>>> over behind some bushes to relive himself and all of a sudden yells
>>> out and comes running back and falls on the ground writhing in pain,
>>> holding his crotch. "Pete, Help me! I think I got bit by a cotton
>>> mouth snake right on my c#*k." Pete says "I don't know what to do,
>>> but we just passed a doctors house I go get him" Pete runs into the
>>> office and yells " My friend just got bit by a cotton mouth. I need
>>> help." The doctor says, "Quick, run back and suck the poison our and
>>> I'll see if I can get the rescue team up here in time to save him"
>>> Pete runs back to the camp and Joe groans "What did the doc say?"
>>> Pete says "The Doc says your gonna die"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .410 at close range cuts their head right off.  Shovel is cheaper and
>>>> works as well, but not as much fun.  Don't think I ever shot one with a
>>>> .22.  If you got one coming after you aggressively its way to late, and
>>>> its probably your own damned fault for screwing with them.  That being
>>>> said a snake that's blind while its shedding will strike at anything
>>>> that moves.
>>>>
>>>> I knew a few people who got bit by rattlers over the years.  Every
>>>> single one, but one got nailed because they were drunk and screwing
>>>> with
>>>> the snake.  The exception was a railroad man who got nailed twice ...
>>>> and was allergic to rabbit serum.  First time he reached into a switch
>>>> box without looking.  Second time a few years later he had his gun
>>>> leaning against a switch box when he spotted a snake.  when he reached
>>>> for his gun to kill the snake he found there was a second had crawled
>>>> out next to the butt of his rifle.  Yep.  Still allergic to rabbit
>>>> serum, and somebody had eaten the goat. Atleast that's the way he told
>>>> it.  We visited him in the hospital the second time.  He never came
>>>> back
>>>> to work.
>>>
>>
>> My Wife is (according to her) deathly afraid of snakes. (of any kind)
>> Around here we have Garter Snakes, Black Snakes, Water Snakes, maybe a
>> an occasional Copperhead and Rattler.
>>
>> A number of years ago or better said ages ago we would go on canoe trips
>> down some local streams and rivers.  Because I did not want her
>> jumping out of the canoe and walking on water, when I saw a snake on a
>> rock
>> ahead I would say,  "Elongated Turtle"  She would then freeze and look
>> straight ahead.  Once we were past the snake I would just say, "All
>> Clear".  Around the house when she would see a snake of any variety she
>> would run to me and say "go to where ever and kill that snake".  I would
>> go and catch the snake and move it to another location off property.
>> Lately she has gotten a little braver and takes it on herself to
>> use what ever tool was closest.  Shovel, ice chopper, or lawn mower
>> to totally destroy any snake that got close.  Last year it was a
>> harmless beautiful 5' Black Snake that ended up in about 4 or 5 pieces
>> on the burn pile.
>>
>>
>>
> keep them black snakes
> they'll keep the copperheads run off..
>
> watched a matched pair of black snake and copperhead fighting for over
> an hour, but it was clear from the start the black snake was the winner..
> sure enough, once the black snake did the copperhead in, he just moved
> on like nothing had happened..
>
> Rocky's rule of thumb,  if the snake wants to fight, kill-em.
> if they run  let-em...


A number of years ago there was a large Sycamore Tree on the neighbor
property.  The tree was very old and the trunk was at least 6 feet in
diameter.  There was this large Black Snake climbing up the tree.
It kept snaking around the tree somehow finding a way to grip the bark.
He would go a little left and then a little right all the while
increasing his climb.  When he got to the first limb which was about
30 feet up he started out the limb.  Did not know at the time what his
purpose was bird nest out at the fork.  This whole process took about
4 hours.  He was going for lunch.  I didn't wait to see how he managed
to get back down.  It was a most impressive thing to watch.

If someone would have told me the above story I would have said "BS".
But, actually watching it happen it still boggles the mind.