MURDERER! I'm calling People for the Ethical Treatment of Amphibians! :nono1:
Anyone up for frog legs tonight? NoHall? Enriched and marinated with scorpion venom. A delicacy in some parts.
MURDERER! I'm calling People for the Ethical Treatment of Amphibians! :nono1:
Mike
Cool video and i am glad your okay,but yes i am going to say it (your Dumb) if you had your hand on that camcorder because if that snake hit that lens with that much force and your fingers were nearby the only 2 things keeping you from getting bit was heat from the camcorder or God. Because cotton mouth strike at prey using there sense of heat that's how they tell the difference in a mouse and a clump of grass they have very poor eyesight.cotton mouths venom is a Hemotoxin(kills blood cells and keeps blood from clotting),so if you had a weak immune system your in trouble,if your healthy you would probably be okay.Glad you are using a pole now but if you run across a 5 or 6ft Diamond back you better remember that they can spring up too twice there body length. so just becareful and keep the video's coming. ps sorry about the dumb name but i am scared someone else may try that and not be so fortunate
Hey Mike
sorry again about my Colorful name calling but you are right i was trying to warn other people about getting careless and or overconfident. you are a lot like me in that i respect the danger of these creatures but are so fascinated by them that i just have to check them out and get a picture or in your case video of them. My dad had a friend who we used to go golfing with a lot at Tyndall air force base who me and my dad used to get onto about messing with the snakes they would run across. (He had good intentions) he would always try to move the snakes back into the woods or water so no one else would try to kill them, well he picked up a water moccasin with his club and tried to sling it back into the marsh but it fell off so he tried again but when he bent down lower to try to pick it up with the club it turned and struck him in the face. luckily my dad and another buddy knew what to do and they were only a few minutes from the club house and Hospital, but the guy almost died from his face swelling so bad he couldn't breath and then from his brain swelling. But the tuff ole' military Officer hung in there and survived but had to have some plastic surgery. This was several yrs ago. As far as your ACT's go I am sure you did well. I now wish i had found away to go to college, but i am a country boy who grew up having to use his hands more than his brains. but thats what i enjoyed along with being in the outdoors. Hope you have many more great adventures and i may have to get a video camera too!!