jimmyraythomason
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Hardluk1,yeah I hear the Everglades are getting pretty well infested with the big squeezers. You can keep the boas,alligators and crocs and I'll take a RARE encounter with a coral snake. At least I can kill it with a stick.
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I remember reading a newspaper article about 15-20 years ago from Conyers Georgia (suberb of ATL). It seems there was an elderly lady out in her garden picking some tomatos. She kept hearing a hissing sound. After 10 or 15 minutes she found where it was coming from after pushing a leaf out of the walkway. A 12' python.
She beat the snake to death using the hoe she had in her hand. Then went in and called the local Sherrif's Dept.
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jimmyraythomason
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An elderly lady with a garden hoe is a lethal combination!
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My kind of girl!
Vern Humphrey
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Never fire a shot to warn, scare, or for any other reason but to stop an attack. Shooting -- even with a shotshell -- is using deadly force, and is legally justifiable only if you are in reasonable fear of death or grevious bodily harm and have no choice but to use deadly force.
If you should shoot someone with that combination, don't say you intended to scare or warn them -- say, "That's what was in the gun."
iHateRodents
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This is pseudo-science at it's worst. Smaller snake = less venom.
Another thing:
Messing with snakes gets you bitten. Most people who suffer snakebite where threatening the snake's well-being. They defend themselves with deadly force only as a last resort, just like the rest of us. I've come very close to stepping on a rattlesnake without getting bitten. They really aren't that dangerous, especially coral snakes, which almost NEVER bite humans.
Get a grip. It's just a snake, and if let them live they help keep down the population of disease-ridden rats and mice.
Vern Humphrey
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The problem is, it's the snake, not the man, who decides you're messing with him.
^^^ Good point.
I've been struck by a copperhead. It felt like being hit in the lower-leg by someone swinging a 3/4" diameter broom-handle as hard as a grown-man could swat. Just the impact hurt surprisingly badly. I had a pair of fang-marks, but luckily, it released little or no venom (it happens). I was just passing through heavy brush, and definitely not intentionally "messing" with that snake. I was unarmed, so it got away. Lesson learned.
Les
I've been struck by a copperhead. It felt like being hit in the lower-leg by someone swinging a 3/4" diameter broom-handle as hard as a grown-man could swat. Just the impact hurt surprisingly badly. I had a pair of fang-marks, but luckily, it released little or no venom (it happens). I was just passing through heavy brush, and definitely not intentionally "messing" with that snake. I was unarmed, so it got away. Lesson learned.
Les
jimmyraythomason
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"It's just a snake, and if let them live they help keep down the population of disease-ridden rats and mice." True enough but we have an abundance of king snakes and rat snakes that handle that chore just fine without having to tolerate the dangerous variety.
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