Legislative Protection for Shooting Snakes In Public

[VoiceofReason]

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[WildBill]

This is what we need. The letters are over one inch, but this sign needs the Spanish language to fully comply!

Edited to add: Nice contrasting colors too!

[tbrown]

Don't we have enough snakes without people giving them away free?

[WildBill]

Don't we have enough snakes without people giving them away free?

You are sure in a jovial mood today.

[tbrown]

I blame the caffeine and the lovely weather.

[E10]

But we digress...

A snake that is close enough to present a threat has either already bitten you, or you've jumped eight feet in the air and run off out of striking range. Nobody is quick enough to outdraw any snake I've ever met. If you've got time to shoot a snake, you've got time to go get a hoe and dispatch him without endangering the nearby populace with gunfire.

And I agree, spiders are a different animal altogether. I use a flamethrower on 'em.

[Abraham]

I've walked way past a number of venomous snakes within striking range without being bitten.

Now, that I think of it, I've walked past all four types of venomous snakes within striking distance without being bitten.

One, I didn't walk past, (a cottonmouth) but was quietly curled up next to a pile of logs I was splitting. To be sure, it was winter and snakes are sluggish when cold. It could've bitten me quite a number of times before I spotted him.

Snakes aren't like in the movies. They don't automatically strike even when they could nail you.

[ShootDontTalk]

Not unless you're some hair-brained preacher playing with 'em or like some who find the cool, slithering touch of a King Cobra under the bed sheets at night comforting.

[WildBill]

I think that some people just have Ophidiophobia [snake phobia]. I don't know if this a DSM disorder or if it has a treatment. Many people that I know who fear snakes have never had a bad experience, they just really really are afraid of snakes.

On the other hand, I know people who have snakes as pets. When I was a kid my older brother had a couple of snakes as pets.

They were neat to watch, but they didn't fetch balls or do any other tricks.

[nightmare69]

Thank God, those cheetahs and baboons are really causing problems here.

[SQLGeek]

used to work rattle snake round ups and do "stunts", in retrospect it was brutal and stupid. In one day following the close of a roundup, came a killing day wherein thousands of the snakes bought during the roundup were decapitated, skinned, gutted and the various components used or eaten for myriad applications. To an animal, the heads would watch and open there mouths trying to bite anyone who got close for quite a while after being separated from their bodies. Most of the snake's bodies would pull up into a striking position whilst rattling to beat the band. One such headless body turned and struck a guy who was walking behind it, I think he wet his britches. I took four large skinned and gutted snakes home to cook that night (hours later and after being in a cooler) and started to brine them in the kitchen sink. We were watching TV when dad looked into the kitchen and casually remarked, "Dinner's leaving." All four of the meat and bone assemblages were pushing out of the sink as if to escape the salty water. Creeeeepy.

For what it's worth, I have a cat that comes home snake bit all the time. I have swept snake skeletons off of my roof but haven't seen a live one in the yard for a few years.

Welp, might as well go brew a pot of coffee now because there's no way I'm sleeping tonight.