Anyone ever been bitten by a poisonous snake??

[Big Bear]

yeah i live near a swamp wetland area and there are tons of copperheads and cottonmouths crawling around

big ass snakes. I opened my back door and almost stepped on one right on my back porch.

i'm going to have to get some of that snake be gone stuff

[raydog]

bear, the only reason to live that far up in the state, is if you love the mountains and like the outdooorsy shit , nascar, looking at poor trailer trash or looking to start a meth enterprise ... seriously, there are a few high dollar areas around the golf courses and shit, but its not a region you want to move too...

look at nashville if the wife is die hard on moving to this state... memphis gets a bad rap because of the gangs on the north and south sides of the city, but honestly, they only fukk with each other and the mexicans a bit... the county burbs and main parts of the city are predominantly white and crime free... its like anywhere else, if you live in the right area, you rarely see any trouble at all...

[raydog]

wear a mask, gloves and goggles when you throw out the snake be gone.. its some brutal stuff

[recon1]

bear, the only reason to live that far up in the state, is if you love the mountains and like the outdooorsy shit , nascar, looking at poor trailer trash or looking to start a meth enterprise ... seriously, there are a few high dollar areas around the golf courses and shit, but its not a region you want to move too...

look at nashville if the wife is die hard on moving to this state... memphis gets a bad rap because of the gangs on the north and south sides of the city, but honestly, they only fukk with each other and the mexicans a bit... the county burbs and main parts of the city are predominantly white and crime free... its like anywhere else, if you live in the right area, you rarely see any trouble at all...

No doubt, got real lucky that day.

[raydog]

like a lot of guys who grow up in/near the country, i went through a fishing stage when i was younger... business was strong and i was playing golf or fishing 4-5 days a week .. never fails that at these fishing tourneys, so many guys had a very similar story about snakes... a young boy, fishing at a pond with a buddy or dad, playing with what he though was worms, but it was water moccasins and the was bitten all over and died... i swear, i heard a similar story from a dozen guys over a few summers... im sure it happened somewhere, but it was pretty damn funny to hear different versions from guys living in different states..

[packerd_00]

damn .... Tennessee is bad for that type stuff?

My wife has mentioned that she would like to live there... I have only been to Memphis Tennessee once and that was 12 years ago.

Is Tennessee pretty cool other than that ? is weed easy to get there?

the part of Tennessee she wants to move to is the Tri-cities area

What state are you from Big Bear

[existential]

my cousin caught a pretty big cottonmouth who he suspected had bitten his dog. he paralyzed its head with this metal gardening tool and then chopped it in half a few inches below it. kinda crazy to see cause the body still moved for a bit afterward. glad he killed it though.

[neckbone]

Grace olive wiley

[neckbone]

[neckbone]

That second pic is her king cobra, handled it like a pet for years, she trained and bred rattlesnakes, in fact I believe she was the first one to successfully bread them in captivity. She handled poisonous snakes all her life, when she was 50 or 60 something time magazine came out to do a piece on her, the photographer wanted a photo with a monocled cobra because they looked exoctic, she'd just gotten one and had not trained it to be handled safely yet, she got it out for the photo anyway and was bitten...she had antivenom on hand but it had Sat around unused so long the syringes were rusted and useless...

[neckbone]

100% real, I sht you not.

[Big Bear]

That second pic is her king cobra, handled it like a pet for years, she trained and bred rattlesnakes, in fact I believe she was the first one to successfully bread them in captivity. She handled poisonous snakes all her life, when she was 50 or 60 something time magazine came out to do a piece on her, the photographer wanted a photo with a monocled cobra because they looked exoctic, she'd just gotten one and had not trained it to be handled safely yet, she got it out for the photo anyway and was bitten...she had antivenom on hand but it had Sat around unused so long the syringes were rusted and useless...

so she died?

thats a sad story.

[neckbone]

She did, but amazingly enough after 3 decades of handling poisonous snakes like petstore boas without incident. She also let cobras, mambas, and rattlesnakes that where trained by her to be safely handled just wonder around her house and workspace - which as a professional herpetologist got her fired from a couple jobs, including a job at a zoo in Chicago heading up an entire reptile collection because she routinely left the doors of highly venomous snakes wide open. I first heard of her in a book about Joe slowinski who was another american herpetologist that died from a krait bite on a science expedition, in Myanmar I think. It's called 'the snake charmer' - really good book.

[neckbone]

I've never been bitten myself, close calls a dozen times - but I'm up in the amarican high desert where the only venomous species is the prairie rattlesnake, which is relatively harmless - maybe equivalent to a copperhead, you'd want to get medical attention after a bite, and it would be painful, but not necessarily deadly.

[recon1]

Glad you're hear today recon1, I mean it.

That's one whopper of a story...a real thread topper.

Thanks, KVB

[Russian Rocket]

Recon one side question if I may

Were you going through the bush while looking for Commies...Aliens...or my black Lexus?

Thanks in advance

[Plaza23]

When I was in college working at Pizza Hut we had this Indian guy working the counter and he was from India. We started talking about Cobras and I asked him how common they were where he lived. This crazy bastard told me that in the house or shack his family used to sleep in, that at night the Cobras would occasionally slither under the door and into their house. They had their beds raised up off the ground for this very reason. He said it didn't bother him to wake up and find a King Cobra under his bed. I couldn't believe it. Most snakes don't bother me but I've always been freaked out by Cobras. One time I had a dream that I got bitten by a cobra and I woke up kicking the bed and it startled my wife. We had been watching some nature show on snakes and it must have gotten in my head. One country I'll never ever visit is India because of the snakes.

Another girl I knew she grew up in the Philippines and told me she was once rock climbing and found a baby cobra. It got it's little hood up and she told me sh grabbed it and threw it at one of her friends. Some foreigners think of those snakes as if they are garter snakes like its no big deal. Not me!

[recon1]

Recon one side question if I may

Were you going through the bush while looking for Commies...Aliens...or my black Lexus?

Thanks in advance

Don't assume. I was 14 Y/O when incident happened. Although, @ 14 i'd still killed a commie for mommy.

[packerd_00]

When I was in college working at Pizza Hut we had this Indian guy working the counter and he was from India. We started talking about Cobras and I asked him how common they were where he lived. This crazy bastard told me that in the house or shack his family used to sleep in, that at night the Cobras would occasionally slither under the door and into their house. They had their beds raised up off the ground for this very reason. He said it didn't bother him to wake up and find a King Cobra under his bed. I couldn't believe it. Most snakes don't bother me but I've always been freaked out by Cobras. One time I had a dream that I got bitten by a cobra and I woke up kicking the bed and it startled my wife. We had been watching some nature show on snakes and it must have gotten in my head. One country I'll never ever visit is India because of the snakes.

Another girl I knew she grew up in the Philippines and told me she was once rock climbing and found a baby cobra. It got it's little hood up and she told me sh grabbed it and threw it at one of her friends. Some foreigners think of those snakes as if they are garter snakes like its no big deal. Not me!

Jesus that would be a scary experience, waking up to a King Cobra by your bed.