ttha_aggie_09 said:

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91AggieLawyer said:

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jpistolero02 said:

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Pretty sure I had to clean my pants out.

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I've come close to three. One sunning in mid-Spring North Central Texas in the '80s; another a few years later near a creek; finally, a third on a trail in the Great Smoky Mountains NP. Didn't get bit by any of them but my shorts didn't survive!

I honestly don't care what people say: I shoot venomous snakes on sight.

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That's fine so long as you do so from a safe distance and don't reinsert yourself into harms way just to go "kill the snake". Many people every year get bit, including a dumbass buddy of mine from high school, chasing after a snake to go shoot it.

He was incredibly lucky after getting tagged on the finger by a rattlesnake from about 2' away while he was crawling through brush to go shoot it that it was only a dry bite. Many many more stories like this - most of which aren't as fortunate with dry bites.

Just don't be an idiot (not saying you are one) and you should be fine.

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Bird Poo said:

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Your Mom And Them said:

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Bird Poo said:

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nealan said:

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Reminds me of my friend's story. One night his dogs were barking and going crazy in the backyard. Buddy walks out and sees that they have a cottonmouth cornered. (He was living on a lake at the time). Buddy heads to his shed to grab a shovel (barefoot of course) and gets tagged on the foot by a copperhead before he can get across the yard. Benadryl and some pain meds and a week on the couch with his swollen leg elevated. He's fine now

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My dad has the same story. He grew up in New Gulf, TX back when they had a sulfur mine there. Foot Swollen up a bit and rested. All good.

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Newgulf????!!??? Have some family from there. Not many folks from there or nearby Boling.

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Yup. My grandfather was an engineer for the Sulfur mine and eventually sat on the BOD with George Bush (Sr). They were both pilots in WWII and were buddies.

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BlueSmoke said:

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"hypothetically", I might have been a salty little freshman
"hypothetically, we might have been out in the woods as a fraternity pledge
"hypothetically,, we may have come across a copperhead, and pledge "country boy" may have been tasked with retrieving sed snake with a forked stick and a trash can.
And hypothetically, may have later stolen white mice from the lab in a cooler to feed sed snake that lived in the house with us and struck every time we fed it with leather welding gloves - so technically, I have been struck by a snake.

Again, hypothetically....

Snakes never really scared me. Just know what they can and can't do. Now, if a flying cockroach takes off, I will scream like a little girl.

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RightWingConspirator said:

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BlueSmoke said:

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"hypothetically", I might have been a salty little freshman
"hypothetically, we might have been out in the woods as a fraternity pledge
"hypothetically,, we may have come across a copperhead, and pledge "country boy" may have been tasked with retrieving sed snake with a forked stick and a trash can.
And hypothetically, may have later stolen white mice from the lab in a cooler to feed sed snake that lived in the house with us and struck every time we fed it with leather welding gloves - so technically, I have been struck by a snake.

Again, hypothetically....

Snakes never really scared me. Just know what they can and can't do. Now, if a flying cockroach takes off, I will scream like a little girl.

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Dang, I'm glad I'm not the only one. Snakes don't bother me. I won't handle them, but I have no problems dealing with them. Roach? I'm out. Won't even step on them. I can't get close to them. They terrify me.

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Bird Poo said:

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nealan said:

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Reminds me of my friend's story. One night his dogs were barking and going crazy in the backyard. Buddy walks out and sees that they have a cottonmouth cornered. (He was living on a lake at the time). Buddy heads to his shed to grab a shovel (barefoot of course) and gets tagged on the foot by a copperhead before he can get across the yard. Benadryl and some pain meds and a week on the couch with his swollen leg elevated. He's fine now

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My dad has the same story. He grew up in New Gulf, TX back when they had a sulfur mine there. Foot Swollen up a bit and rested. All good.

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robbio said:

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I went to a funeral for an old lady that had grown up In Papalote, Texas. During the depression when she was a kid they had a game called "jump the snake"

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Growing up in Beeville, this is a town I have not thought of in a long, long, time! Being a suburb of Skidmore, it is a garden spot! My grandpa rebuilt fence for a rancher down that way after a Navy trainer (NAS Chase Field) crashed on his land. The rancher let me and grandpa hunt deer for free on his land after that.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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SanAntoneAg said:

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Is his name Chuck Norris?

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