Lucky Dip

[scheherazade_79]

The other night on the beach I reached down to grab my handbag. It was dark and I couldn't see what I was doing, but I thought my bag felt funny. I got a friend to shine a torch my direction, and he suddenly screamed.

It turned out I was holding a dead bird, feathers and all, complete with maggots eating into the flesh

It was gross. And it's made me curious - is there anyone else out there who's picked up the wrong thing and ended up with something really bizarre or gross?

I need some horrible stories to distract me from my work-related bad mood

 

[Chantilyvamp]

My last year of high school my sister was collecting eggs in the chicken house when her flashlight went out. She grabbed a 5ft copperhead snake in the basket. I have never heard a scream in person that rivaled the one she did when the light popped back on. Plus, the fact that as all of us jumped off the porch to go save her from whatever it was she ran past like an olympic sprinter and it took us half a mile to catch her. (Ok so I'm still laughing, but that damn sure wasnt an egg she grabbed)

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

To answer Zade's question: No.

Now my question is, just what sort of purse was she packing that she couldn't tell it from a dead bird in the dark? I mean, does her purse feel like a dead bird, or maybe smell, like a dead bird? The mind, not to mention stomach, boggles at the possibilities.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[scheherazade_79]

My last year of high school my sister was collecting eggs in the chicken house when her flashlight went out. She grabbed a 5ft copperhead snake in the basket. I have never heard a scream in person that rivaled the one she did when the light popped back on. Plus, the fact that as all of us jumped off the porch to go save her from whatever it was she ran past like an olympic sprinter and it took us half a mile to catch her. (Ok so I'm still laughing, but that damn sure wasnt an egg she grabbed)

Are copperheads poisonous?

 

[scheherazade_79]

To answer Zade's question: No.

Now my question is, just what sort of purse was she packing that she couldn't tell it from a dead bird in the dark? I mean, does her purse feel like a dead bird, or maybe smell, like a dead bird? The mind, not to mention stomach, boggles at the possibilities.

Rumple Foreskin

Thank you, Rumple

It was the handle. It's always been a bit stiff, and I'd spilled lemonade over it earlier in the evening, so I thought it had just got stiffer. But it was the bird's leg. Noticed a weird smell in the area, but put it down to seaweed.

I won't be making that mistake again

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Thank you, Rumple

It was the handle. It's always been a bit stiff, and I'd spilled lemonade over it earlier in the evening, so I thought it had just got stiffer. But it was the bird's leg. Noticed a weird smell in the area, but put it down to seaweed.

I won't be making that mistake again

Whew. Glad to hear that.

As for copperheads: A Copperhead snake bite is not usually fatal to humans, but it needs medical attention, is extremely painful, and may cause extensive scarring and loss of use of a bitten extremity.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/gaston/Pests/reptiles/images/copperhead1.jpg

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Are copperheads poisonous?

Enough so that we were taught to stay the hell away. My granmother told us that if you are near and area that all the sudden smells of cuecumbers to mobilize and get our ass out of the way. This was while we were out picking wild blackberries. She was right. We were picking I smelt cuecumbers started moving and the little bugger slithered out. (there are debates on thsi tell tell sign) But then again we had all the rattlesnakes and water moccasins to deal with as well and they are both worse than the first.

*shudders and shudders over the pic that rumple put up*

 

[SlickTony]

My mother got bitten by a copperhead in her back yard a few years ago. Didn't go to the ER or anything. Course I also mentioned in another thread (possibly killing it) that she's a Christian Scientist.

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

Well i didn't really touch it but I thought I saw something that was something different when I was coming home in Boston. I was walking down the street at night and saw something that looked like a kitten. So stupid me started going over to it. I got close enough to tell it wasn't a kitten. It was a SKUNK! I sprinted so fast in another direction you couldn't even see me.

 

[jomar]

There was that one night stand that time, but antibiotics took care of it.