Man Bitten By Decapitated Head Of A Rattlesnake

[GonzoReiter]

Rumor has it that he'll be here all week...try the veal ...and don't forget to tip your waitress and bartender.

 

[TGIRecovered]

Tree roaches? I didn't know that term. We called them "Palmetto bugs" in Florida, but it occurs to me now, of course, that palmetto is a kind of tree.

I wasn't knocking your post. But "first, of course, you'd bleed to death" cracked me up. I'm sure the account continues: "And even if you didn't bleed out, you wouldn't be able to see to tie your shoes."

And of course, you would eventually starve to death...without your head.

Back to the snake-I'm a Texan and 'round these parts we crush their head instead of just cutting it off.
Unless you want to keep the head and pose it in a striking stance and forever preserved in clear acrylic. Makes a nice paperweight, which you could use to crush another snake , if need be. Could also make a belt buckle if the snake was small enough, or if you are big enough!

Okay, that's all I got.

Susan

 

[Jesstexas]

"And even if you didn't bleed out, you wouldn't be able to see to tie your shoes."

That gave me a MUCH needed laugh, Nova.

 

[Texana]

I grew up near the Everglades with plenty of snakes. I distinctly remember being told not to pick up a newly killed snake because something like this might happen.

I honestly thought it was common knowledge.

Me, too! I think it's common knowledge around people who live near poisonous snakes. Involuntary reflex on the part of the snake and all.

 

[Texana]

Tree roaches? I didn't know that term. We called them "Palmetto bugs" in Florida, but it occurs to me now, of course, that palmetto is a kind of tree.

I wasn't knocking your post. But "first, of course, you'd bleed to death" cracked me up. I'm sure the account continues: "And even if you didn't bleed out, you wouldn't be able to see to tie your shoes."

We call them tree roaches to distinguish them from the ordinary kitchen roaches, of course. That way you don't look like the biggest slob for having roaches in your house. "Oh, there's one of those dadgum tree roaches!"

Seriously, the tree roach is so much bigger than the average little ol' food roach, it can make even grown men holler.

 

[pedinurse]

ok, this cockroach talk is GROSS.


i agree about the snakes though - i thought that was common knowledge. my dad would get huge snakes - not rattlers, but i believe water moccassins... and other nasty, long, poisonus black nasty ones out when he mowed the yard and field (we lived out in the country in OK). he would always chop them up with a garden hoe. some of them he stretched out on the pavement and were HUGE. One time, we woke up to find one in the bathroom during the night... we don't know HOW it got in the house, but it was laying on the bathmat next to the toilet... we are pretty sure it came out of the toilet (never went to the bathroom in the dark again, I can tell you that much!). After he killed those snakes, I never went near them (it was gross), but he would NEVER move them back into the field to rot or whatever until "after the sun went down the next day." No one worries about really killing the little green garden snakes - it is always the harmful ones, and those are the ones that people mess with and get bit after the thing is dead!

 

[deanws]

, it can make even grown men holler.

No Kidding! I can't STAND when they start to fly!!!!
:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

 

[cheko1]

I grew up near the Everglades with plenty of snakes. I distinctly remember being told not to pick up a newly killed snake because something like this might happen.

I honestly thought it was common knowledge.

I grew up in Iowa & we were all taught don't go near any type of dead snake til after the sun goes down or it would get you!

 

[dingo]

I was also told that a snake doesnt die until sundown.....whether it has a head or not.

 

[narlacat]

Cockroaches can live without their heads but eventually they die of starvation.

Hahaha I knew someone would say it before me lol, Dingo they can live a week without their heads, how gross is that?!

 

[narlacat]

I was also told that a snake doesnt die until sundown.....whether it has a head or not.

The one I saw slithering across the road to my place but got ran over before it got in my yard definetly looked dead to me and this was about 10 oclock in the morning

 

[dingo]

The microwave doesnt kill them either...not that Ive tried it.

 

[dingo]

The one I saw slithering across the road to my place but got ran over before it got in my yard definetly looked dead to me and this was about 10 oclock in the morning

Watch it at sunset...I bet it moves......we accidentlysilenced: ) killed a brown snake in our yard one day and it looked as dead as a maggot but at sundown it wiggled..I couldnt believe it.

 

[cheko1]

Watch it at sunset...I bet it moves......we accidentlysilenced: ) killed a brown snake in our yard one day and it looked as dead as a maggot but at sundown it wiggled..I couldnt believe it.

I also seen that happen dingo! Scarey as all heck!!!

 

[narlacat]

Watch it at sunset...I bet it moves......we accidentlysilenced: ) killed a brown snake in our yard one day and it looked as dead as a maggot but at sundown it wiggled..I couldnt believe it.

Accidently? geez it would have been no accident if I'd have killed it lol

Well this one was so squashed...

 

[dingo]

We,re not supposed to kill them....its against the law .....thats why this one was accidently hit in the head with a shovel

 

[dingo]

I also seen that happen dingo! Scarey as all heck!!!

It spooked me Cheko...the snake was very dead looking ,but it still moved

 

[narlacat]

We,re not supposed to kill them....its against the law .....thats why this one was accidently hit in the head with a shovel

Oh LOL, I didn't know that- or if I did I've forgotten lol

You won't see me getting close enough to one for it to bite me!- those bloody things chase ya though...lucky I can run fast

 

[kazzbar]

We,re not supposed to kill them....its against the law .....thats why this one was accidently hit in the head with a shovel

Yep, there are a lot of low,flying shovels here in Oz...they eat the fruit and chit everywhere.
If a snake comes in my yard I am not going to kill it because it is illegal.:liar: :liar: :liar: :liar:

 

[dingo]

Thats right Kazz....we would never intentionally harm the cute little slithery ,hissing, cold blooded, scaley ,rodent eating ,venom spewing critters.......hello mr snake...meet mr shovel