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Rusty

05-06-2003 18:40:29

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I just stepped within a few inches of an eastern diamondback. Who said white men can't jump? Anyone that says you should stand still near snakes has not nearly stepped on an eastern diamondback.

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Phil (VA)

05-07-2003 08:42:22

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Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to Rusty, 05-06-2003 18:40:29

We never kill a snake. My wife is passionate about not killing any of them. I guess if a poisonous snake were in the house, we might kill it rather than try to handle it, but otherwise we don't kill them. A couple of years ago we had some well pump work done and the repair guys were killing the snakes under the well cover, and she went all over them like stink on you know what. (They weren't poisonous, but some people assume all are poisonous.) Sometimes the black snakes find bird nests close by the house, or in the barn, and that's regrettable, but we figure that's just nature. Now cats are another subject...!

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Week N Warrior (MS/MO)

05-07-2003 06:01:40

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Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to Rusty, 05-06-2003 18:40:29

I don't know what state it was in but this week I saw on the news a man is facing jail time for killing a rattesnake while out camping to protect his kids. Seems it was some protected snake.

Carl

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JohnO - MI

05-07-2003 08:34:45

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Re: Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to Week N Warrior (MS/MO), 05-07-2003 06:01:40

That would be Michigan. The guy lives in my town. His problem was that he wasn't protecting his kids. He found the snake on a path, and kept people away from it (which was good). Then he decided to pick it up and take it down to the nearby lake to show it to his kids. When he was done, he took it out into the woods to release it away from people. Upon releasing it, he felt threatned by it and cut it's head off.

Michigan law states that you can kill to defend yourself/others, but witnesses (including DNR officers) didn't feel that the snake was a threat to him, seeing as he was carrying it around for show and tell. You need a permit to kill a reptile if it's not in self defence.

-John

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RoN of ohio

05-07-2003 07:43:53

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Re: Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to Week N Warrior (MS/MO), 05-07-2003 06:01:40

In two different years, I've seen two baby timber rattlers near my barn in Southern Ohio. I watched them strike at a small stick and then let them dissappear into the brush. They were so small that they didn't have that first rattle, but they had that tell-tell delta shaped head. I heard that they are on the endangered list and were probably turned loose by the forest service. It is a crime in this area to bother them other than direct them out of your way.

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Mountainman

05-07-2003 10:36:13

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Re: Re: Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to RoN of ohio, 05-07-2003 07:43:53

"They were so small that they didn't have that first rattle, but they had that tell-tell delta shaped head."

I've heard that the small (young) ones are the most poisonous. In fact, they can be deadly where the larger older snakes are not as likely to be deadly.

I run across them from time to time here in the mountains - especially in the diggin's, where the miners in the 1870's piled up huge mounds of river rocks. Usually they will slither away if given the chance.

N - joy.

Mountainman...CA

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Bishop

05-06-2003 19:45:08

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Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to Rusty, 05-06-2003 18:40:29

Last year, while cutting brush with a chain saw, a big Copperhead came out from under the debris and headed away from me, it took me about 20 feet and several tries with the chainsaw, but I finally got him, the head part flew past my head on the right and the tail part almost hit me in the face, but he didn't get away. I don't know about the rest of you, but the sight of a bad snake makes me mad.

Last week I surprised a good one, a gartersnake, he's still out there.

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05-06-2003 18:47:24

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Re: OT Rattlesnake in reply to Rusty, 05-06-2003 18:40:29

Cool can ya send me the hide??? Just kidding, but it would be only a hide if I has done that

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