Mom screaming for help!

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So I'm across the field from my house the other day standing outside at my brother's house visiting a bit. Suddenly we here our Mom scream my brother's name for help and yell, "bring your pistol!"

Well..............needless to say, as two former Marines would do for their Mom, the dust flew as my brother and I took off up the lane (adhearing to complete situational awareness of course) to assess the situation and posssibly handle a problem with appropriate levels of force.

I jump out of my truck, jog across the yard and reach my Mom first with my brother close behind. We see her at the side of her house next to her rabbit pen, obviously shaken and nearly in tears pointing to the rabbit. "Do you have your gun?????" "There's a huge snake trying to eat Thumper!"

Well......once we realized the problem, my brother and I took it down a few notches and got the snake, about a 5 foot long black racer, out of the bunny pen and out into the woods.

However, it was a bit exciting there for a minute when we heard Mom calling for help. Sometimes I think I'm getting a little rusty and my Devil Dog days are behind me............he he, it was like riding a bike. Once you get to a certain level of training/experience/proficiency, etc.........it sticks with you. That's not the only time I've had a situation test out what would have been my probable reaction had that situation turned out to be a truly theatening one. What sorts of things have you all had happen that turned out to be a false alarm?
 
HA!!!

Good one Thump.....................:D

Before I realized what your name was I was going to reply that not much gets us flustered and when the pressure is on for real we are pretty cool headed, blah blah blah. Then I looked at your name again.................


ROTFLMAO!!!
 
Thumper, I whole heartedly agree. I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, or else I'd be buying a new laptop for my wife rather than an M1A for me.
 
Several years ago I ran THROUGH a glass storm door because I heard a blood-curdling scream from my mother inside, because of a rat. Thankfully I was wearing a leather jacket and gloves, only got a few small cuts and scratches on my face, nothing needed sewed shut...

After cleaning my thompson, as in, on my way from the couch to the piano to grab the magazine, I heard my little sis scream from a neighbor's yard. The first thing that came to mind was snoopy (neighbor's stupid dog) went ape s***, by then I had the mag loaded and the gun chambered. I cant remember exactly why she screamed (playing around), but after seeing me come though that thin brushline between our yards with that tommy gun at low-ready, the "Don't scream for s***s and giggles" lecture finally sank in.

The only other one I can think of is a little off-topic, since a gun or any other weapon didnt come to mind. I was helping my grandmother move a chest of drawers or something while my grandfather was mowing. Then we heard the mower quit about the same time we heard something hit the side of the house. Thankfully, the only injuries that he got were a bruised shoulder and ego. The mower was fine and the underpenning was easily straightened.

Thumper, I dont know how big you are, but I cant help but think that was one cocky snake...
 
I cant remember exactly why she screamed (playing around), but after seeing me come though that thin brushline between our yards with that tommy gun at low-ready, the "Don't scream for s***s and giggles" lecture finally sank in.
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oh, how i wish i could do that to the kids around here...
 
The ex-PMS hates snakes. Is deathly afraid of them. She will leave the room if Animal Planet or Discovery channel is running a documentary on snakes. If you want to have fun when she is walking through a brushy area, make a hissing sound like a snake. If you want to keep your head though, don't make a hissing sound like a snake while she is walking through a brushy area.

I suppose the scene in "Kill Bill 2" where the Black Mamba comes out of the briefcase and nails Budd in the face would give her a heart attack. Hmmm. I just might send her "Kill Bill 2" after thinking about it.

Pilgrim
 
Thanks Ronnie.

Now I have to explain to the Workgroup manager here at work why I need a new keyboard.

I sprayed coffee all over it when I read your reply.
 
Arggh! Kimchi all over the keyboard, screen, desk, floor, and wall. Thanks Thumper now I have to get a new house!

Moral of the story: Never eat or drink while catching up on THR.
 
Hmmm, where's center of mass on a snake? The head? Does it matter if the snake is poisonous or not? I've shot snakes before but never when my life or a loved one's life might depend upon a good hit.
 
I live out in the woods. My "special" dog is a beagle redbone hound mix named Axl. If he was a child he'd ride the little bus. He sleeps eats and hunts. He can sleep 23.5 hours a day except to eat. He can hunt 24 hours a day and not sleep or eat. Around 2:00 AM wife and I get woken up by the sounds of Axl and Gurldog (she's a girl). Sounds like Axl is being torn apart in the woods and Gurldog is fighting for her life. Some of you know how a hound dog squalls when they are close to someting they are tracking. I get my Stagecoach 12 ga, slip on my boots and head out to the woods with a flashlight. Expecting some ferocious wild animal fighting Axl, squeezing the last life out of him, blood and hair all over the place, I'm ready to kill something. I get out there, going through briars, cedar trees, you name it, finally get up to the dogs, and Axl has a damn fat possum treed in a 8'hickory tree. The critter ain't coming down, the dogs won't shut up, I drag them both back to the house and locked them up but they still could hear/smell it and wouldn't shut up, the possum would not get down even after I put the dogs up. I put up with it till about 3:30, went back out, and ended the the problem.

rk
 
I'd venture a guess that it might take one BIG snake to eat Thumper, just from the sounds of it.......:D Not to mention one tough snake!:D
 
Maybe there is more than one Anaconda :what:

Hey folks, we may have the making of a decent horror flick, where the Bad Creature gets blown to bloody vapor by well-aimed gunfire!

How many movies have we all endured where all the Good Guys but one are killed even though there are guns galore available? And The Last One prevails using something other than those EEEVILL, useless guns?:rolleyes:
 
i can imagine the huge Anaconda being shot from inside by one eaten gun-packer..
just imagine his struggle to crawl back through the huge throat ant to the mouth then shooting the balls.. err, eyes out of the creature's scull by the .45LC double derringer :cool:
 
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