Holey rusted metal, Batman!

[Guest]

Not sure which pictures you're referring to, but if it's the ones I posted, I beg to differ.

Cottonmouths and copperheads are both extremely dangerous around here, as they don't warn anyone, and cottonmouths especially are VERY fast, and VERY aggressive.

Odd fact about cottonmouths, courtesy of Dr. Bruce Meeks, who was the best thing that ever happened to my Environmental Science class in high school:

Cottonmouths WILL stand up like a cobra and chase you. However, they will NOT strike from this position... as an experiment, several men actually stood v-legged and the snake slithered upright between their legs, past them, and around them, hissing and threatening, but not once attempting to bite. As soon as it was a decent distance away, it took off normal-ways. They repeated this experiment several times in several different situations, and not once did they get bit.

HOWEVER: the most dangerous thing about cottonmouths isn't their venom, it's the bacteria in their mouths from what they eat. It causes a wound to turn septic within hours/days. Had a horse get bit by one once, and the cutting away of dead tissues and saturating the wound with alcohol was a once a day process for about thrree weeks until we finally managed to kill the infection. And that was with antibiotics!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Not sure which pictures you're referring to, but if it's the ones I posted, I beg to differ.

Cottonmouths and copperheads are both extremely dangerous around here, as they don't warn anyone, and cottonmouths especially are VERY fast, and VERY aggressive.

I was referring to the snakes in the first post. I am aware of the danger of copperheads and water moccasins. Also of coral snakes and of some of the other critters that have been posted here.

 

[entitled]

I was referring to the snakes in the first post. I am aware of the danger of copperheads and water moccasins. Also of coral snakes and of some of the other critters that have been posted here.

That's just a BIG. FUCKING. SNAKE.

 

[zeb1094]

That's just a BIG. FUCKING. SNAKE.

A Boa Constrictor of some kind, about 15 feet long, weighing at a couple of hundred pounds. That looks about right!

 

[entitled]

A Boa Constrictor of some kind, about 15 feet long, weighing at a couple of hundred pounds. That looks about right!

Like i said.

 

[zeb1094]

Like i said.

Yes you did, I quote "BIG FUCKING SNAKE!" I took literary license with the punctuation.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I find it hard to believe that one of those snakes could swallow a sheep, even crushed to death. A very young lamb, perhaps, but not a full grown sheep.

The snakes pictured would not be considered to be among the most dangerous.

Not only is it possible, its a common occurance in some parts of the world. Snakes that size will often only get to eat once every few months to once evry couple of years. The healthy ones have very little trouble taking down a full size sheep whether or not its been shaved.

Keep in mind also that a snake three to four feet in length has enough squeezing strength to kill a child if it gets around the neck of the child. The snake in those photos was more than enough to take down a healthy sheep.

 

[Equinoxe]

It took me a bit to find it, but I thought I recalled something.

Certainly, a very large snake though.

 

[Guest]

It took me a bit to find it, but I thought I recalled something.

Certainly, a very large snake though.

Four meters! That's what, about 13 feet? Bigger than my 8 foot estimate. I'll wait and let Ent tell us that us what it was.

Just a sweet baby. They can get bigger.

By the way, a lot of people have them as pets. When they get to ten feet or so they become to big for one person to handle alone. Many people just turn them loose. If New York, or Pennsylvania, they die the first winter.

But several have been found in Florida, and there abouts (Alabama, Mississippi etc.) and there are even concerns those former pets have become, or could become breeding populations.

Cobras have been found near Miami International.

Ted "from a cold state" Bare

 

[entitled]

Four meters! That's what, about 13 feet? Bigger than my 8 foot estimate. I'll wait and let Ent tell us that us what it was.

Just a sweet baby. They can get bigger.

By the way, a lot of people have them as pets. When they get to ten feet or so they become to big for one person to handle alone. Many people just turn them loose. If New York, or Pennsylvania, they die the first winter.

But several have been found in Florida, and there abouts (Alabama, Mississippi etc.) and there are even concerns those former pets have become, or could become breeding populations.

Cobras have been found near Miami International.

Ted "from a cold state" Bare

Closer to 11 feet, i think. Ask me after caffeine.

 

[Equinoxe]

Four meters! That's what, about 13 feet? Bigger than my 8 foot estimate. I'll wait and let Ent tell us that us what it was.

Four metres is 157 1/2 inches, so just over 13 feet (13'1½").

 

[entitled]

ok, i was wrong.

Where's my coffee?

 

[Guest]

ok, i was wrong.

Where's my coffee?

I think I should sue my old school district. They made me learn the metric system saying adoption of it was just around the corner.

It's been decades now! I could have killed those brain cells with beer, but they are full of useless metric data now!

 

[rgraham666]

It's only useless if you live in America.

And not always then, the Army uses metric as well.

 

[Guest]

It's only useless if you live in America.

And not always then, the Army uses metric as well.

Think I've avoided the Army. Things would have to get pretty bad before they'd want someone my age and sorry condition.

Yes, it is useful when I travel. Like the time in Mexico when I estimated the bus driver was doing sixty miles per hour along the twisting highway with cliffs between us and the ocean. I readily converted the speed limit signs so I knew that 25 miles per hour was deemed safe.

Ignornance, in that case, would have been bliss.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It's only useless if you live in America.

And not always then, the Army uses metric as well.

It's useful to have a working knowledge of metric anyhow. My wife talks about property in square meters or hectares and I can convert that to square feet so it means something to me. One square meter is about ten square feet.

A liter is about the same as a quart so a 750 ml bottle is a fifth. I don't know why, but bottles of booze are measured by ml.

 

[Guest]

A liter is about the same as a quart so a 750 ml bottle is a fifth. I don't know why, but bottles of booze is measured by ml.

Funny how we learn things.

If erotica only came in Greek, we'd all learn Greek.