Man Bitten By Decapitated Head Of A Rattlesnake

[Shazza]

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

Years ago a friend of mine had a brown snake in her kitchen cupboard, unbeknown to my hubby who stuck his head in to see if he could see one, he couldnt find it, so she called the cops and thats where they found it in the cupboard, hubby nearly got his head bit of by a snake, it gave him the shivers thats for sure, and if its illegal, why did the cops kill it, cos they did. OOmmaa.

 

[dingo]

Its only become illegal recently.

 

[Shazza]

Its only become illegal recently.

That explains it then, lucky I might have had to sue the police force...not.

 

[Amraann]

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 thought so to Nova.. especially if a person lives on a farm.
Also aren't rattle snakes protected?
Maybe that only applies to state and federal parks? NM I answered my own question...
I was just under that notion from living in the parks..

To my aussie friends IMO much like in the US if a snake or other protected species is a danger to people the police or wild life officials can kill it.
Although most snakes can simply be removed. Unlike an alligator that once loses its fear of people will always be a danger ... snakes can be moved and not have it affect their natural behavior towards people.

 

[NewMom2003]

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.

GAWD, I hope I don't dream about snakes tonight. :sick:

I always thought this was common knowledge as well.

When I was little I witnessed my grandma wipe out a family of copperheads with her trusty hoe. Chop, chop, chop and they were gone. Of course I knew not to go near them because their heads could still getcha!

 

[southcitymom]

I, too, grew up swimming in the ocean. (Hey, it was South Fla. All we had was sea and swamp.)

But there's a big difference between "knowing" what to do and actually putting it into practice. I've been in a riptide with less experienced ocean swimmers and they were completely baffled, even though they could quote the advice about swimming with the tide, etc.

Good point! It can be super scary.....of course so is picking up a rattlesnake head, on or off the body!

 

[BarnGoddess]

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.

http://www.pbase.com/donboyd/image/64581068

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.

 

[Nova]

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 certainly do remember, BG. I didn't live quite as close as you, but it still seems we had a field trip every year.

Haas? Wasn't that the name of the guy who ran it?

 

[BarnGoddess]

I certainly do remember, BG. I didn't live quite as close as you, but it still seems we had a field trip every year.

Haas? Wasn't that the name of the guy who ran it?

Bill Haast.

Remember the way he milked the cobras? Also we got to hold an Indigo snake.

 

[Nova]

Bill Haast.

Remember the way he milked the cobras? Also we got to hold an Indigo snake.

Yes, of course. I always loved that place. To see snakes, I only had to go to the backyard, but we didn't do much milking around the house.

 

[BarnGoddess]

Yes, of course. I always loved that place. To see snakes, I only had to go to the backyard, but we didn't do much milking around the house.

Ah, but if I remember, I think you once said that your home was very near the Everglades. Bet it isn't now, with all the sprawl. We only had little garter snakes.

But also we did have those dreaded Palmetto Bugs. That's definitely one thing I don't miss. We don't even have German Cockroaches any where near us. Never could stand roaches.

 

[Nova]

Ah, but if I remember, I think you once said that your home was very near the Everglades. Bet it isn't now, with all the sprawl. We only had little garter snakes.

But also we did have those dreaded Palmetto Bugs. That's definitely one thing I don't miss. We don't even have German Cockroaches any where near us. Never could stand roaches.

I'm back to palmetto bugs here in PS, but it's so dry we don't see too many at any time.

Yes, the Glades began more or less next door to where I lived when I was in third grade. The last time I went back, however, I gave up trying to find where the suburban sprawl ended, but it was miles further west.

 

[bnhall]

I grew up in Southern MO on the AR border and I used to see lots of copperheads. My grandma is a copperhead killing machine! When I was about 8, we came home once to find one on the steps right in front of our front door. My grandma made me go in through the back while she beat the snake with a mop that had lost it's spongy head. After it was dead, we left it there all day. I remember seeing it twitch and it scaring the crap out of me, but I wouldn't close the door so I couldn't see it anymore.

 

[Nova]

Apparently EVERYONE knew not to touch a dead snake except SouthCityMom.

Do you think the good people of Charleston withheld this important info just from her? For what reason?

 

[Texana]

I grew up in Southern MO on the AR border and I used to see lots of copperheads. My grandma is a copperhead killing machine! When I was about 8, we came home once to find one on the steps right in front of our front door. My grandma made me go in through the back while she beat the snake with a mop that had lost it's spongy head. After it was dead, we left it there all day. I remember seeing it twitch and it scaring the crap out of me, but I wouldn't close the door so I couldn't see it anymore.

Your grandma must be related to my grandma.

I can still remember my grandma patting me on the knee and saying, "Habitat, honey, it's their ha-bi-tat."

We killed a snake on our driveway a couple of years ago--brown one, couldn't quite identify it as good or bad.A couple of days later was just nagging--reminding-- Mr. Texana that cleaning up dead snakes was HIS job, when the mother mockingbird flew down, picked it up, and fed it to her babies.

 

[southcitymom]

Apparently EVERYONE knew not to touch a dead snake except SouthCityMom.

Do you think the good people of Charleston withheld this important info just from her? For what reason?

Story of my life, Nova!!!:bang:

 

[Nova]

Story of my life, Nova!!!:bang:

Now I'm worried about other warnings they may have withheld from you. You know not to put a fork in an electrical outlet, yes?

 

[southcitymom]

Now I'm worried about other warnings they may have withheld from you. You know not to put a fork in an electrical outlet, yes?

Yes, and also not to blow dry my hair in the bathtub.....but I only recently worked out that my parents did not send my Dalmation puppy who bit me when I was three to a farm to live out his days in the fresh air!!!

 

[dingo]

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

 

[southcitymom]

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

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!