Snakes

[Roos4eva]

Reading the two threads on here and the lifestyle board about spiders have made me think about these slithering bastards.

Thankfully, I haven't had any close encounters with a snake (yet), but I do see a lot of tiger snakes around where I live. Here's a close up of a tiger snake, for your nightmarish pleasure.

Hot stuff. Speaking of hot stuff, it's coming to that time of the year where they start to come out of the rocks (or wherever it is they go) that they've hiding in the colder months, so yeah, bring it on.

Have you had any encounters with a snake before? Been bitten? What kind was it? etc

Any snake related discussion, post here.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Second home is Albany on a farm, had a few experiances with Tiger Snakes

Cut ones head off with a shovel, was laying next to the door, wasnt pissing off, so i decided i had to decapitate it rather then let my 2 5 year old cousins walk past it

One time my brother left the door open, the damn snake crawled in my Grandads house, cue Drunken French Uncle with Shotgun shooting it IN THE HOUSE, Incredibly funny, and expensive for my grandad to fix the laundary floor tiles

And my 58 year old grandmother beating one to death with a broom while she was carrying me while i was about 3

Two cousins (they were brothers) daring eachother to touch one which was laying in the sandpit our grandad built, poking one with sticks and fingers, and daring eachother to grab it. causing my grandad to come out and slap them both in the back of the head for being idiots

We had a dead one once, and wanted to test out a home-made bomb "dont call the anti terrorist hotline, im olive skin, ill be ****ed if you do" so we set it up next to it, detonated the bomb, and it ripped this thing to shreads, we saw about 3 parts of it...

 

[Roos4eva]

One time my brother left the door open, the damn snake crawled in my Grandads house, cue Drunken French Uncle with Shotgun shooting it IN THE HOUSE, Incredibly funny, and expensive for my grandad to fix the laundary floor tiles

That's gold.

My Pop has had more than his fair share of experiences with snakes as he has been a farmer for most of his life.

One time he was up the top of a silo, and as he was coming down the ladder, he saw a tiger snake climbing up towards him. As soon as he saw it, he jumped off the ladder and hurt his knee and was rolling around on the ground whilst the snake was still not far away from him.

His trick to kill snakes is usually with boiling water. He always carries a poly pipe with him as well, just in case, so he's smashed a few snakes using them.

 

[Upgrayedd]

ah whenever im on grandads field i just wear nice boots, he's retired so most of his land is overgrown with grass, your asking it if your walking around with exposed feet/ankles

Im always shit scared when im riding the 250cc dirtbike around in summer if i stack it, manage to roll over a tiger snake and piss it off.

I have no idea why there are soo many of the things down on grandads farm, its unreal.

Once my uncles dog got bitten by a tiger snake, fortunatly we managed to save it and the dog was all good, never got to kill the thing, but it wasnt really out of town anyways, just a few Km's from the town center actually, which is what weirded me out

 

[Damp Squarie]

I stepped on one without wearing any shoes once.
The snake never had any on either

It frightened the duck outta me.
After fleeing the area and calming down I was reliably informed it was only a tree snake (green) and that they arent poisonous.

Tell that to my brain at the time of the event.

 

[Mario the Lothario]

Two cousins (they were brothers) daring eachother to touch one which was laying in the sandpit our grandad built, poking one with sticks and fingers, and daring eachother to grab it. causing my grandad to come out and slap them both in the back of the head for being idiots

That would be the classic way to get bitten by a snake. Unless they are in or around your house, leave them alone. Snakes are more frightened of you than you are of them, and will bolt away in 99% of cases.

 

[Bouvet_Island]

His trick to kill snakes is usually with boiling water. He always carries a poly pipe with him as well, just in case, so he's smashed a few snakes using them.

How do you kill a snake with boiling water?
Surely if you tried to pour it on a snake then
a) You'd need to be standing closer to it than I'd want to be
b) It'd bolt as soon as the water started to land on it

 

[Macca19]

Have only seen one which was down the Murray on our familys houseboat back when I was about 10. Was walking along a path and stepped with a few feet of one. Didnt disturb it.

Im living in the country now and apparently you get some brownies out here so yeah...will look forward to that

 

[TigerGlory]

I threw a brick at one that came into my backyard before high-tailing it inside and telling dad what i had done.

It was a digusting sight when I came back, its head all squashed...

 

[Kahuna]

The closest I have ever got to a snake is when I was on the sand path to Semmaphore beach and the big bastard just slithered straight past me, it didn't even look at me. Was a Brown snake too, so that's probably a good thing.

 

[Essendonfc_4_lyfe]

Live on/near the Yarra so get them a lot when i trek down there. Was on a Bike Trail in Chelsworth Park with a couple of mates when the leader rode over a snake that slithered from the bushes at an inconvienent moment.

 

[Leper]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned one of the more deadly breeds yet.... the one eyed trouser.... anyone had any bad encounters with one of these bastards?

 

[ripitup27]

I heard the one-eyed can cause severe swelling for nine months in women.

But I don't mind snakes too much, better than flipping spiders. I just kind of leave them alone.

Dad had a great experience on the farm. He was cutting up hay band with a pocket knife on a bench and a brown slithered past on the table, quick smart stabbed the mongrel in the head with his knife.

Then came to the house and scared the crap out of mum by sliding it up the window while she was doing the dishes.

 

[Roos4eva]

How do you kill a snake with boiling water?
Surely if you tried to pour it on a snake then
a) You'd need to be standing closer to it than I'd want to be
b) It'd bolt as soon as the water started to land on it

I'm not sure how he does it, but he definitely has done it in the past. The incident I'm thinking of was when there was a tiger snake in the garage and I'm pretty sure it was in an enclosed area so it couldn't escape.

 

[hagansbull]

Snakes make you run into trees, see snake, turn to run away, clunk tree

 

[mantis]

Reading the two threads on here and the lifestyle board about spiders have made me think about these slithering bastards.

Thankfully, I haven't had any close encounters with a snake (yet), but I do see a lot of tiger snakes around where I live. Here's a close up of a tiger snake, for your nightmarish pleasure.

Hot stuff. Speaking of hot stuff, it's coming to that time of the year where they start to come out of the rocks (or wherever it is they go) that they've hiding in the colder months, so yeah, bring it on.

Have you had any encounters with a snake before? Been bitten? What kind was it? etc

Any snake related discussion, post here.

Yes, unfortunately when I was about 12, we used to go snake hunting in the paddocks around us, Templestowe was only a new suburb then, but the houses were encroaching on the snakes habitat, so would constantly find Tigers in our backyard.

All the kids in our steet would go out armed with sticks & spades & kill any snake we saw, until one day, after we killed a few, I saw a little baby, only about a foot long & realised we probably killed his parents & I felt so bad, so I picked him up behind his head & took him home & kept him in a box. I had him for about 2 months, he never tried to bite me, would let me pick him up & feed him, but when I went to show the Copper, who's GSD I used to walk after school for him saw it, he took it off me & drowned him in boiling hot water, I never spoke to that bastard again.

That;s when I found out snakes aren't to be feared & make great pets, when I was 16 I bought a 7' 6" Carpet Python, Lurch was an excellent pet.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Only snake ive seen since my move up north was at Mt Coot-ha gardens, litte fella about a foot and a half long came out across the path, i stopped and went 'Shit! Snake!!" while the Mrs just went 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' which prob scared the poor little bastard off!!!!

 

[Thrawn]

His trick to kill snakes is usually with boiling water

No offense, but anyone who kills an animal with boiling water is a ****ing ****** and deserves to have boiling water thrown at him. It is no worse than burning something alive.

And I'm surprised no one picked up on this earlier (especially you mantis). I mean FFS, you'd have to be a sadistic and cruel idiot to do something like that, snake or otherwise.

 

[J-Train]

No offense, but anyone who kills an animal with boiling water is a ****ing ****** and deserves to have boiling water thrown at him. It is no worse than burning something alive.

And I'm surprised no one picked up on this earlier (especially you mantis). I mean FFS, you'd have to be a sadistic and cruel idiot to do something like that, snake or otherwise.

So I'm guessing you don't eat lobster or crab then Thrawn?

 

[campbell]

So I'm guessing you don't eat lobster or crab then Thrawn?

chalk and cheese there.

 

[Thrawn]

So I'm guessing you don't eat lobster or crab then Thrawn?

Honestly, are you trying to defend this shit?

Lobsters don't even have pain receptors, snakes being reptiles do, and can feel it. And even so, I'm not sure you're allowed to boil them alive anymore. I certainly wouldn't do that. And yes, I do eat lobster... and crab. Don't see how it makes boiling alive a snake, a friggin' vertebrate fully capable of feeling pain, right.

 

[Roos4eva]

No offense, but anyone who kills an animal with boiling water is a ****ing ****** and deserves to have boiling water thrown at him. It is no worse than burning something alive.

And I'm surprised no one picked up on this earlier (especially you mantis). I mean FFS, you'd have to be a sadistic and cruel idiot to do something like that, snake or otherwise.

"No offense, but you're a ****ing ******ed, sadistic, cruel idiot. Yeah, no offense".

Who really gives a **** if someone thinks it's cruelty? Tiger snakes are one of the most venomous snakes in the world, would it be better that the snake has a crack at you instead?

However, I don't think he kills them anymore with boiling water, he is originally from Scotland so his knowledge on snakes when he first came here was pretty naive as compared to now.

 

[Roos4eva]

FWIW, I don't condone pouring boiling hot water on snakes to kill them. However, when it's the only thing you have on a farm that is acres away from human contact with no means of communication, and you feel you're in danger, what else are you going to do? Like I said, he was pretty naive towards snakes when he first came to Australia, so perhaps cut him a little slack. That's also why I said he now brings poly pipe with him wherever he goes out on the farm (this is a massive farm too), so yeah, you live and learn I suppose.

 

[Thrawn]

"No offense, but you're a ****ing ******ed, sadistic, cruel idiot. Yeah, no offense".

Who really gives a **** if someone thinks it's cruelty?[

It's the principle of the thing.

Tiger snakes are one of the most venomous snakes in the world, would it be better that the snake has a crack at you instead?

No, but that's not the point. I'd rather kill it humanely as possible instead of pouring boiling water all over it.

However, when it's the only thing you have on a farm that is acres away from human contact with no means of communication, and you feel you're in danger, what else are you going to do?

My point is, killing something by boiling it alive is sick. Now surely there were other means by which he would have killed the snake? After all, you said:

His trick to kill snakes is usually with boiling water.

Usually? Yeah, like there's no other way to kill something, eh?

I dislike people who are unnecessarily cruel to any animal. If you have to kill it, fair enough... but with boiling water? It's cruel and sadistic, and I'll criticise it.

 

[mantis]

FWIW, I don't condone pouring boiling hot water on snakes to kill them. However, when it's the only thing you have on a farm that is acres away from human contact with no means of communication, and you feel you're in danger, what else are you going to do? Like I said, he was pretty naive towards snakes when he first came to Australia, so perhaps cut him a little slack. That's also why I said he now brings poly pipe with him wherever he goes out on the farm (this is a massive farm too), so yeah, you live and learn I suppose.

He walks around his farm carrying boiling water, WTF?

It's a farm, grab a bloody stick, or how about just move away from it, it will soon slither away.