Shame on the snake killer on Camp Creek Road!

[scooterbug44]

Ya'll are really good people.

I have seen several snakes on that road when biking.
Am terrified to look at them. Usually I yell and run off the
road or into the person I'm with. I would have to honestly
come clean and say the only reason I wouldn't run over
one in a car is the mess it would make on my car.

I think if I saw a snake while biking you'd hear either me screaming or the sirens!

There have been some close calls w/ string and other assorted debris that got the ol' heart rate up.

And I confess that the reason I don't run them over w/ my car is that I was told it didn't work!

Yes, God's creatures, blah, blah, blah .............. they still freak me out as they always manage to catch me by surprise!

 

[dogflyguy]

Yeah i am a snake lover,whenever i see one i am like steve irwin i want to catch it and examine it's colors and markings and attitude. I hate when people kill them for no reason espicially the Non-Poisonous ones.when all they have to do is walk away or bicycle for 5 minutes and it will usally be gone. Just yesterday i heardsomeone scream outside my office when i went to investigate a couple of ladies had walked up on a banded water snake and the one started yelling its a water maccasin (commonly mistaken for) and to go get the hoe from the shop and kill it. luckily i intervened and showed them how to tell the difference and caught it and showed them the markings. not to sure they wouldn't try to kill it i took it and put it in one of my fish plots. It's very happy and safe now. At least until he goes looking for a mate!!

 

[Mango]

I fished a black snake out of my pool in Sowal a couple of weeks ago. It seemed very appreciative, and I sat about 10 feet from it, drinking my coffee, and it hung out a while with me. Didn't seem intimidated, no hissing or anything defensive, just stuck it's tongue out a few times immediately after being rescued. I assumed it was exhausted. It was about 3 feet long, very black, no other markings that I could see. I am looking at pictures of the Indigo and the Racer and I can't tell them apart.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Are you sure they killed it?

I was told that running big snakes over w/ a car wouldn't kill them because they just tense up their muscles.

That makes complete sense. A snake can surely tense its muscles to make a 6000# vehicle bounce over it. I bet humans can also try it. :funn:

 

[scooterbug44]

That makes complete sense. A snake can surely tense its muscles to make a 6000# vehicle bounce over it. I bet humans can also try it. :funn:

We were talking about the scootermobile (less than 3,000 lbs) and a BIG snake.

 

[seagrovegirl]

Black snakes should be left alone for reasons already mentioned. Now a rattlesnake.....is another story. I ran one over, a huge one, on Bay Drive years ago in a little Mazda truck...and it disappeared. I mean it wasn't in the road and it didn't slither off, so that means it is under the truck. When I got home I opened the door...fas....t and leaped about 10 feet away from the truck. Never found the snake......eebie-jeebies!!!!

 

[Lynnie]

I used to play with snakes as a little girl. My brother made a house for one (he took Shop Class that year) and every morning before school I would go check on it and feed it. It molted! I was horrified, cried and made my brother set it free. I won't go out of my way to run over one today, but I also won't endanger humans to avoid running over one.

And, yes the black ones take care of the bad ones around........

 

[Lynnie]

Anyone ever been to the Rattlesnake Roundup in S. GA? Oooh, I shiver just remembering the noise of the rattlers.

My cousin was Rattlesnake Queen! Twice!

 

[dogflyguy]

No but went to one in Austin Tx when i visited my brother,talk about crazy they would put 40 snakes in a glass booth about 8'x8' and crazy texans would get in there and see how maney they could get in a sack in 2 minutes and not get bit. I saw 4 guy's do it and no one got bit and the winner had about 25 if i remember right (long time ago)

 

[dogflyguy]

sorry thats many dang prescription drugs!!!