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Baroque Bloke |
“An Oklahoma man was out celebrating his 57th birthday when he came across a rattlesnake on a road and attempted to move it, but was bitten twice and died. Barry Lester was driving in his pickup truck with his relatives on their way to Walnut Creek on Sunday when he spotted the timber rattlesnake in the middle of the road in Osage County. Lester pulled over, approached the venomous reptile and grabbed it behind its head, as he had done many times before over the years…” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...nake-tries-road.html Serious about crackers | ||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
I've got an idea for the next GEICO commercial. "If you mess with a rattlesnake, it will bite you. It's what they do."
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Well, at least he died doing what he loved.  “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
That's probably me some day. I can't stand by and see some animal in distress. Fortunately, I run into no rattlesnakes. | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I have friends, long time childhood friends, who live for rattlesnake catching and the Rattle Snake Derbys. Yep, just Google Rattle Snake Derby. They catch hundreds and hundreds of pounds of rattlers this time of year. Yes, they're nuts. They're the same guys who Noodle catfish. Nuts. Me? I'm not, I don't catch snakes. I carry a 12 gauge. If they see a snake they don't want, then it's mine and Mr pump action Buckshots turn. | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
The actions of that snake are some of the most selfish I have ever seen! And then he was turned loose in the end - where's the karma! | |||
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A Grateful American |
Rattlesnake Bluff. I ain't falling for it... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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"That's what snakes do." Sons of the Republic of Texas, NRA, TSRA God Bless America | |||
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I though DEATH from rattlesnake bites was actually extremely rare. ? Do we trust stories from dailymail.co.uk ? "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
I grabbed a big gopher tortoise out of the middle of US-1 in Cocoa some years back. Nearly got hit, and the tortoise wasn’t thrilled, but made it to the side he was headed towards. Would never have risked it with a rattlesnake. Not no way, not no how. ______________________________________________ Carthago delenda est | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
He's dead Jim.....er, Crom.. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news...f2-6a1fac6cbba5.html | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Thanks, saved me the trouble. I'd have swerved to avoid it if I could do so safely, but pick it up and move it? Nope, nope, nope... Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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delicately calloused |
Not much would keep me from driving around it. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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".... the doctors told her his death was due to the combination of the rattlesnake bite and an existing heart condition. ... ... Venomous snake bites are relatively common in Oklahoma and across the United States, but deaths are extremely rare." "Crom is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, 'What is the riddle of steel?' If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me." | |||
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Funny Man |
Depends on the type. The Timber Rattler is probably the most deadly due to amount and type of venom. We see lots of Diamondbacks bites around here. The only fatal bite I have heard of locally was from a Timber Rattler. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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Wait, what? |
You did it wrong Barry... “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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while driving last Sunday, I saw a copperhead enjoying the warmth of the blacktop on my street. I adjusted course and ran him over, then backed up and did it again. It was nice to see that a feathered friend was enjoying a nice grilled snake lunch when I returned home. I like snakes, but poisonous ones will be exterminated with prejudice. A baby copperhead bit my dog last year and my wife almost stepped on one right by our back door. ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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| Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. |
...and just in case you missed it, I would not be driving around it. | |||
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Lighten up and laugh |
If something can kill me it doesn't need my help. | |||
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This would be me, too. I've gotten turtles and a couple of snakes out of the road. No rattlers, yet, but a fellow in front of me out on a desert road did chase one off the road, we watched. ________________________________ "Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea. | |||
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