Man Bitten By Decapitated Head Of A Rattlesnake

[Amraann]

Hey I grew up in South Florida too. I learned to swim in the ocean and took many trips in the Everglades. With Girl Scout camps we learned a lot about snakes and had seen plenty of them. All those from S. Florida do you remember the Serpentarium in Miami? I can't remember all the school field trips we took there, but there seemed to be one every year I was in Elementary School.

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Out here in Colorado, we have rattlesnakes that love Prairie Dog holes. I see them on the road occasionally and do not hesitate to set my brakes and run over them. We also see a lot of the non-poisonous bull snakes.

Two days ago, the BarnGod called to tell me he had just killed a 3 foot rattler with 9 rattles. I went out later in the day to help with some of the fence building he was doing and saw it. I was going to bring it home and skin it, but it was starting to shed. I noticed later that the snake had appeared to have rolled over exposing its belly. He told me the old wives tale that if a snake was belly up, it predicted rain. Well, that night we got an inch. We haven't had rain in quite a while and needed it desparately.

I'm going to print off the article today and hope that scares the p*ss out of him. Tomorrow, he's taking the .22 revolver if I have anything to say about it.

Farmers around here have a saying: "If it crawls, it's dead." Too much livestock can be bitten while grazing. We had a friend who lost her horse to a rattlesnake bite. They get bitten on the nose and then can't breathe with the swelling.

I see Nova really knows about those dreaded riptides. I've only been in one once, a minor one.

My horse was bitten by a rattler too .... I was so scared she would die.
I spent 2 nights awake sitting in the pasture with her. She some how got through it .

 

[dingo]

Hiya Dingo,

I hope you are well. Nova can flirt with me anytime! He's lucky I'm not a gay man or I'd probably stalk him!

I enjoy his quick wit and his sense of humour..hes my most favourite gay man too

 

[Nova]

Hes a treat isnt he South ....while hes picking on you hes leaving us Aussies alone

Not to worry, dingo. I saw The Proposition over the weekend (you know how I love Aussie films), so I have lots of fresh snarks on Down Under.

(ETA: my Aussie director friend, Kate Cherry, is directing Our Town in Brisbane. If anybody is close enough, Kate's work is always worth seeing.)

 

[dingo]

I havent seen that movie yet but I cant wait to hear your fresh snarks:clap: .......Im closer to Sydney than Brissie so sadly I wont be able to see Kates work.

 

[Nova]

I havent seen that movie yet but I cant wait to hear your fresh snarks:clap: .......Im closer to Sydney than Brissie so sadly I wont be able to see Kates work.

She usually works in Sydney and, especially, Melbourne. I'll let you know the next time she does a play in Sydney. (Kate's husband, Ken Ransom, is an American actor who usually works in Australia. He's teaching at the University in Queensland for a few years, which is why Kate is working there.)