Argh!!!!! What is wrong with people?!

belcherm58 said:
I live in the country. My visitors are the likes of raccoons,skunks,possums
and snakes. I run up on these critters in the dark and you talking about
reaction. The 5 foot long black snake in the out building is one I tollerate for
rodent control. I like to know where he is when I have to go in there to get
the lawn maintenance stuff. If I see him close up, I sound like a little girl getting out of there. LOL! I mean it! I don't like snakes close to me when I
first see them. At least I don't have gators...... EEK!
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Where I live we have these big fat racoons! They get into fights all the time with the stray cats. It's insane when they're going at it! I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders or mice but cockroaches and palmetto bugs especially freak me out. That's when I start screaming like a little girl! :p
 
killrwheels@autogeek said:
I have a set of less than courtious neighbors. Several years ago after complaining to them about their daughters boyfriends burning out on the swale when leaving, they decided to add those cement buggers to "their" swale. Now every idiot that visits parks on my swale even though there visiting them. (Needless to say I use my sprinklers quite liberally)
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LOL You go Killr! Revenge is sweet. :) Then when their car is full of water spots you could detail it for them and charge them $300.00 for a vinegar bath. ehehehhe
 
FloridaNative said:
Where I live we have these big fat racoons! They get into fights all the time with the stray cats. It's insane when they're going at it! I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders or mice but cockroaches and palmetto bugs especially freak me out. That's when I start screaming like a little girl! :p
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Last year I was getting ready to mow the lawn. I open the building up and
go in to get the riding mower out. I heard a hiss as I was walking in and
turned around to see a 5 foot long snake on the rafters over the door. I
might add the only door or way out. As I was ducking and running out the
door it struck at me. I just about went to ridding myself of this visitor.
They are not venomous but can bite. Mice are not a problem, rats I can
live without. I let the snake live as it eats the mice and rats. The rodents
build nest around the engines of all the equipment in the building and cause
them to over heat.
 
Guess Scott and I just have to worry about gators:D . Though are pool area out back has a section custom done with with wood and palm trees growing through. We're replacing the wood with another design (that'll be a fun job lol). So started tearing up some, took a plank out and this friggen 5-6ft black snake shot out. Grabbed my dog and put her inside. And had to use the pool net to get crap out to scoop up the snake and fling him over our wall in back. Was probably a black racer but never seen a racer so aggressive, damn snake had a pissed off attitude.
 
Surfer said:
Guess Scott and I just have to worry about gators:D . Though are pool area out back has a section custom done with with wood and palm trees growing through. We're replacing the wood with another design (that'll be a fun job lol). So started tearing up some, took a plank out and this friggen 5-6ft black snake shot out. Grabbed my dog and put her inside. And had to use the pool net to get crap out to scoop up the snake and fling him over our wall in back. Was probably a black racer but never seen a racer so aggressive, damn snake had a pissed off attitude.
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When I was like 7 years old I was swimming in a canal near my house. (I know disgusting, but I was only 7 and it was summer and we didn't have a pool and besides it was a pretty clean one) Anyway, the banks of the canal were pretty steep and near it was an overpass where Atlantic Blvd crossed over the canal and underneath there were these recesses in the cement pillars that were holding up the road. I was in the middle of the canal and I see this log floating only as it got closer I realized it wasn't a log at all but an alligator and it was coming after me. I knew that I couldn't get to the edge of the bank and up that steep dirt hill before it reached me so I swam for dear life to the overpass and jumped out of the water and hid myself in that cement recess. The gator was right behind me and just sat there in the water not 6 inches from me. It just sat there waiting and waiting for me. I sat there for about 4 hours before that thing finally gave up and swam away. It was already dark and I knew I was going to get my butt kicked for being home late. I don't know which is more scary, being eaten by an alligator or facing my mother. HMMMMMMM I'm still not sure of that one. Anyway, when I was sure the gator was gone I swam like mad for the shore and ran out and down the street towards home. I could hear my parents outside calling my name and I knew I was in for it. When I finally got home my mom was like, "Where the hell have you been?? You were supposed to be home an hour ago!!" I said, "I was swimming in the canal and an alligator chased me and I had to stay there until it swam away." My mom spanked me and said, "That's what you get for telling lies"! I think the alligator would have been more lenient. :p
 
watch out for them canals .... we use to have seaweed (well canal weed) fights in ours, and we had a pool. Ever seen a cotton-mouth up close, damn those are some nasty snakes and they love the banks of a canal.
 
killrwheels@autogeek said:
watch out for them canals .... we use to have seaweed (well canal weed) fights in ours, and we had a pool. Ever seen a cotton-mouth up close, damn those are some nasty snakes and they love the banks of a canal.
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Cotton-mouth=VERY nasty poisonous snake.....VERY aggressive too! I have to worry about gators, diamondback rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, black bears, fat ass racoons that get into my garbage(aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh!), and several other species in central Fla.

Black snakes will hiss and strike at you but are not poisonous....keep them for rodent control. Here are some pictures I took a few weeks ago when my cat was playing with her new friend! It was hilarious because the cat wasn't scared of it AT ALL. It was swatting it's tail and at one point they were almost nose to nose. The cat laid down next to it and started to slither like the snake, as if to mock it. It struck at her many times but the cat is MUCH faster! Just looked at it like "pfffft", you'd better be faster than that!! Just thought I'd share since we were on the subject:D

Disclaimer: No animals were harmed during this documentation;)
 
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belcherm58 said:
Last year I was getting ready to mow the lawn. I open the building up and
go in to get the riding mower out. I heard a hiss as I was walking in and
turned around to see a 5 foot long snake on the rafters over the door. I
might add the only door or way out. As I was ducking and running out the
door it struck at me. I just about went to ridding myself of this visitor.
They are not venomous but can bite. Mice are not a problem, rats I can
live without. I let the snake live as it eats the mice and rats. The rodents
build nest around the engines of all the equipment in the building and cause
them to over heat.
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Bet that called for a change of shorts:eek:
 
den, I'd rather have rodents than snakes, but I understand. Always hated them. I remember my dad would always kill them chop them in half, and hang them over a fence, on old Indian tale or something, they don't die unless you cut them and and they stay alive until sundown.
 
Two things that I really hate becuase they scare the crap out of me: snakes and clowns. Wytstang's avatar always creeps me out!
 
killrwheels@autogeek said:
watch out for them canals .... we use to have seaweed (well canal weed) fights in ours, and we had a pool. Ever seen a cotton-mouth up close, damn those are some nasty snakes and they love the banks of a canal.
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Oh yeah! I've had a couple of close encounters with water moccasins. I even saw the inside of the mouth of one up close. :eek: Someone was looking out for me because both times there just swam right by me when they could have struck.
 
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FloridaNative said:
Oh yeah! I've had a couple of close encounters with water moccasins. I even saw the inside of the mouth of one up close. :eek: Someone was looking out for me because both times there just swam right by me when they could have struck.
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your just so sweet, that all them critters cannot wait to sink there teeth into your tush :p
 
snakes

I went golfing while on vacation in Panama city once. It rained for about an hour, then we got back out on the course. There was at least 1 cottonmouth on every fairway! I bet I saw 20 of them before we were finished. Some were close, too.

In KY we have copperheads and timber rattlers. They get very large here compared to the average size for each species. Copperheads are not so deadly, but I wouldn't want to get bitten. Timber Rattlers are more dangerous. My great uncle lost two fingers and part of his hand to one.

My dad works in the mines, so they always find them inside the stacks of timber waiting to be hauled inside. They cut their heads off and put them in each others lunch buckets, or curl them up where people have to crawl through fire doors.

In the early 80's they killed one that was 72 inches, very close to longest ever recorded at 74.5 inches. My dad and I found a huge copperhead while riding motorcycles in the woods one time. It was four lengths of his motorcycle boot sole, which would have been about 50" - Thats huge. No, we didn't kill it, just let it bite and strike our knee height motocross boots a few tims when we poked it. Their venom stinks to high heaven.
 
Hmm...gators, cottonmouths, moccasins, sheesh!!!! Somehow, the pesky cat that I was complaining about (at the start of this thread) doesn't seem so bad anymore.
 
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