I HATE snakessssssssss!

Nice that the huckabucks had plenty of time to make a movie, but couldn't be troubled to pull over and let the snake safely off into a roadside median where it could have retreated into the woods. Dim Bulbs.
 
Quadruple ditto, how does such a dumb response to a snake on the car make BBC news? People are amazing (being nice here), just pull over and let the snake go its way.
-AJ
 
The kids im the back seat want to see what's going on. they want to see the snake. The message that was delivered was to let the snake die...wrong!

I don't like snakes...but I wouldn't go out of my way to harm or kill them, even a cotton mouth like that.

The next time I opened the hood I'd be careful!
 
One of my brother's employees came screeching into the shop parking lot last year. He jumped out of the car and swore he saw a snake stick it's head out of the defrost vent, under the windshield. Everyone was giving him a hard time so he left the car running in neutral and turned the defrost heat on high... out slithers a small rattlesnake.

No lie folks and I hate snakes as well.
 
It wasn't a cottonmouth. Those yokels had no more idea of the ID of that critter, than the ethical thing to do in that circumstance. It didn't have the triangular head of a venomous snake, most likely some variety of rat snake from the body markings.

Even had it been a mocassin, none of them were frogs, so they wouldn't have been in any peril, unless they decided they needed to handle it.
 
Although I am not to fond of the venomous kind, I have had a few Peruvian red tailed boas and a couple of rainbow boas. My mom made me let my largest boa go after it missed the bird I was feeding it and grabbed my hand instead. The snake wrapped around my arm and I required assistance to have him removed. I still have a little scar from that.
 
Where pray tell, did you let it go?

I live in a state where the beaches are now full of several species of iguanas, the swamps have pythons, flocks of quaker parrots chatter in the trees, piranha, oscars and plecostomus are found in canals, all displacing indigenous fauna, and all because well meaning pet owners "let them go"
 
I let them go in Pucalpa, Peru. That is where I grew up at lake Yarinacocha close to the Ucayali river. The only constrictors I was concerned about were the Anacondas.

Most of the houses around the lake were built on stilts because the lake could rise 30-40' during the rainy season. Well, one mother on the other side of the lake was cooking and turned just in time to see her 3 year old son get taken off the steps by an anaconda. I also heard about an oil worker who was eaten by one as well.

We also had countless venomous snakes and that old saying "Red and black friend of jack red and yellow kill a fellow" doesn't work in the tropics. There were snake that had the red and black bands touching that were venomous.

I didn't realize that there were snakes from the Cobra family in South America until I found one. I was bending down to take a closer look at a small green snake when it popped out a hood and made a freaky hissing sound. Scared me half to death.

Sorry about the length of this response, but I find snakes interesting.
 
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No apologies needed! I like learning new things.

I find snowflakes, frozen lakes and icicles interesting
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I was pruning in a residential apple orchard one day and found these guys
 

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You're quite right...it was a rat snake identified by a zoo curator here. This happened in Memphis where I live and they were driving towards town on Sam Cooper Blvd.

I couldn't believe they just let the snake blow off instead of pulling over and letting it slither off.

I don't like to be around snakes but they do have a purpose.

Take care!
JIm
 
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