We had a potential customer in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. When I was driving back, I saw this long, black snake slithering along the side of the road. That snake must have been 20 feet long!
Interesting Snakes I Have Encountered
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I was walking in some heavy woods and just before I put my weight down on my left foot I noticed a copperhead underneath it. Fella just slithered off though.
I had a similar situation where a bull snake struck at my ankle. I was wearing boots, but they aren't poisonous anyway.
Aug 28, 2012
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I don't know if the snake is interesting... the encounter left me... well... judge for yourself. I was in the house with my infant daughter. No one else was home. She was sleeping in my arms after a nice meal. I got up from the rocking chair in the living room and started down the hallway to the back bedroom. As I am walking down the hall with baby in arms, I see a black snake lying against the baseboard about halfway down the hall. I quickly yet ever so gently get the baby to her crib and close the bedroom door. I come down the hall like a mad bull and chase that snake into the living room. He's slithering around... trying to get away from me. He goes under the rocking chair... I flip the chair over... he goes under couch... I yank that thing away from the wall... at some point I grab a hammer... from where I don't remember... and eventually I get the snake out the front door... into the hedges... my adrenalin must have been sky rocketing because I continued to chase that snake... I finally cornered him against the house... and with hammer in hand... needless to say... that snake is not interesting any more. No snake is going to be in my house with my baby daughter and live to tell about it!! I am quite embarassed to admit this... After my husband arrived home and I relayed my fantastic story... he calmly pointed out that it was garter snake... and relatively harmless... I am sure I have suffered some bad karma for that one...
Good karma, you protected your daughter!
My niece had a giant stuffed toy snake when she was three or four. I would pick it up and say, "snake's gonna get you." She would giggle and run off to hide.
not even the brazilian -penis- snake? (hey mods thats not fare,,,penis is a scientific term) could be much worse
Right now I am in DC where they have at the natural history museum something called "Titanoboa" which makes anacondas look like rubber snakes. It died with the dinosaurs or something like that.
-kenpo- wrote:
I grew up with snakes all around me. fully and completely desensitized. no snake will ever frighten me.
OK. The next time you come across a rattler, try to pet it.
mhchess13 wrote:
i like snakes :)
Yea, I do too.
When I was a child I ran a garter snake over with the lawn mower and I was horrified.
I was working in a factory, and I saw what I thought was a light green plastic snake about 3 inches long. As I reached down to pick it up, it flicked it's tongue at me. I jumped back and squealed like a girl.