Snakes

[Thrawn]

He walks around his farm carrying boiling water, WTF?

It smells like BS to me.

What kinda farmer doesn't have a shovel anyway?

 

[Roos4eva]

He walks around his farm carrying boiling water, WTF?

By boiling water, I think he used the water in his coffee flask.

It's a farm, grab a bloody stick

Hence why I said he started carrying a poly pipe with him.

or how about just move away from it, it will soon slither away.

You can't exactly work in an area where you know a snake is in the vicinity. You can't just rely on it to simply 'slither away'.

 

[Roos4eva]

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

It smells like BS to me.

I can't stress the fact that he spent over 40 years in Scotland enough.

What kinda farmer doesn't have a shovel anyway?

Yep, he used shovels as well, of course.

 

[mantis]

By boiling water, I think he used the water in his coffee flask.



Hence why I said he started carrying a poly pipe with him.



You can't exactly work in an area where you know a snake is in the vicinity. You can't just rely on it to simply 'slither away'.

Yes you can, just look where you are walking, snakes avoid contact with humans, because they are more scared of us, than we are of them.

 

[STFUJEFF]

Had a Taipan I metre behind me on a friends farm he wacked it with a shovel.
Cut it in half and its head and about a foot of snake just took off while the rest squirmed.
Came home from Lunch while working in outback Qld.
Jumped of the front porch onto the ground about a foot or two from a brown snake.
He reared up at me and I learnt to fly.
Just found a dead red belly black baby on the road near my house.


my pet Kooky wacked a 6 inch long baby just off the front of my block a few weeks ago.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Yes you can, just look where you are walking, snakes avoid contact with humans, because they are more scared of us, than we are of them.

You do know that snakes specialise in stealth, right? A brownish/yellowish/blackish tiger snake slithering through some weeds or over dark soil could easily camouflague, causing you to step on it or close to it and then it strikes.

I don't live on a farm, but I've been to many and there are heaps of places for a snake to hide. To tell someome to simply watch where they step is naive.

 

[Thrawn]

I can't stress the fact that he spent over 40 years in Scotland enough.

It doesn't excuse boiling it alive. Do you have any idea how excruciatingly painful that is? He might have as well burned it alive, which is just as bad too.

 

[hagansbull]

You do know that snakes specialise in stealth, right? A brownish/yellowish/blackish tiger snake slithering through some weeds or over dark soil could easily camouflague, causing you to step on it or close to it and then it strikes.

I don't live on a farm, but I've been to many and there are heaps of places for a snake to hide. To tell someome to simply watch where they step is naive.

and that is what a snake will do. best you stay in the city and dodge the syringes. I'll take me chances with the snakes

 

[mantis]

and that is what a snake will do. best you stay in the city and dodge the syringes. I'll take me chances with the snakes

Agree, seems some people think snakes go hunting for humans to bite, when it's the total opposite.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

and that is what a snake will do. best you stay in the city and dodge the syringes. I'll take me chances with the snakes

I meant in thick grass you flog. Pretty easy to step on something you can't see. And it's my chances, farm boy.

 

[mantis]

I meant in thick grass you flog. Pretty easy to step on something you can't see. And it's my chances, farm boy.

If you are walking in thick grass you carry a stick & brush the grass ahead of you, so that if a snake's there it will get out of your way. These are things you learn if you are brought up in a rural/semi rural area.

I don't expect you concrete city dwellers to understand.

 

[hagansbull]

If you are walking in thick grass you carry a stick & brush the grass ahead of you, so that if a snake's there it will get out of your way. These are things you learn if you are brought up in a rural/semi rural area.

I don't expect you concrete city dwellers to understand.

Yes Country folk are getting bitten by snakes all the time, I do believe they get a bad rap as I have never seen one have a crack, but I do hear that when they are mating they can be a little frigid. (particularly Tigers). Have you ever heard of or know anybody bitten? very seldom and when people have been bitten it's usually their own fault, ie, weren't watching where they were walking (stepping over logs is a good way to cop a bite)or try to screw with the snake (kill it).

 

[J-Train]

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.

LOL. Not defending it at all Thrawn, just playing on your own words that anyone who boiled "any animal" was ******ed. What's your stance on boiled eggs? Don't mind the odd goog with toast soldiers to dip in the yolk.

 

[Leper]

Yes you can, just look where you are walking, snakes avoid contact with humans, because they are more scared of us, than we are of them.

Is it true that last time you were bitten by a one-eyed trouser (several years ago) you cut the bastard's head off with a shovel, or did you drown it in boiling water?

I dare say the former would have been your more "humane" approach.

 

[Garibaldi]

As some one who trains people in catch and release of snakes I like to recount the time I dispatched a savage dog, I was walking down the street when this mongrel came straight towards me an my kids. Obviously hunting us down so I grabbed a shovel and chopped its head of and left it to squirm while we got away. Lucky escape. Jeese the blind bloke was upset though. Better safe than sorry.
Another time this kitten was hiding in the grass ready to pounce on my daughter. Yep, the old boiling water trick works everytime. Better safe than sorry.
oh, and heres my pet tiger

 

[Thrawn]

LOL. Not defending it at all Thrawn, just playing on your own words that anyone who boiled "any animal" was ******ed. What's your stance on boiled eggs? Don't mind the odd goog with toast soldiers to dip in the yolk.

Pfft, I don't boil eggs, I scramble them.

 

[Macca19]

Pfftt. Poached is the only way to go.

 

[wirra44]

we get a lot of dugites around where i live and some of them get quite big so its pretty scary site when you see one, outside your bin or door.

 

[Juddy88]

we get a lot of dugites around where i live and some of them get quite big so its pretty scary site when you see one, outside your bin or door.

I saw one at Scabs beach once. Rangers came and captured it lol.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Was it playing 'In my car' or 'South Pacific'?

 

[Leper]

Was it playing 'In my car' or 'South Pacific'?

I LOL'ed. That will have flown right over most punters' heads and Rod Marsh for 4 byes though.

 

[rdhopkins2]

The moral of the story:- early medical attention is the 2nd best cure, the 1st being avoid getting bitten (generally people making an ass of themselves)!!

 

[Roos4eva]

I feel like vomiting.

 

[rdhopkins2]

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24615712-5014090,00.html

How cool would it have been to be there?
Poor wallaby...nature can be so cruel!

 

[jimmy35]

Just pick 'em up and crack 'em like a whip .