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Large timber rattler lying defenseless in the road?  ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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I was on the south side of San Antonio and a similar situation occurred, the poor snake was striking at passing cars, until a cowboy pulled over with a shovel and scooped him up and got him off to the side of the road. | |||
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Non rattling rattlers:https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=216924322 -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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This one was just about a week ago. 2018 Okeene Rattlesnake Hunt Winners! Local Division 1st Place - Ron Thompson, Longdale, 65" 2nd Place - Randy Denham, Hitchcock, 62 3/4" 3rd Place - Dick Bernhardt, Okeene, 58" Professional Division: 1st Place - Mike Meek, Waynoka, 75 1/4" 2nd Place - Pat Meek, Lyman Redgate, Braden Meek, Waynoka, 74 1/2" 3rd Place - Stan Bouse, Rick Caywood, Sand Springs, 68" 4th Place- Stan Bouse, Rick Caywood, Sand Springs, 66 3/4" | |||
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My takeaway from this: Don't ever try to save a rattlesnake. Okay. Got it. I won't. ______________________________________________________ "You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." | |||
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I have talked to some conservation folks in Florida that noted the same thing in the Eastern Diamondback native to these parts. This space intentionally left blank. | |||
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A Grateful American |
Wonder if he named it "Brad"... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Only if they had leggs to help them move quicker across the road... ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
Nope that title belongs to the Mojave Rattler found in the southwestern US. They have 2 types of venom; a near toxin and a hero toxin. Not only that, they've got an attitude. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
I don't guess it ever occurred to me that there are people who don't automatically kill poisonous snakes when they encounter them. I grew up on a working farm, and had several close calls. There was never, ever, any question. See a poisonous snake, kill it ASAP. See a good snake, OTOH, leave him be, so he could keep the bad ones chased off. Unless he was eating your eggs (or your chickens!), then move him far away. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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came home one day to a rattlesnake taking in the sun on my driveway. drove around it and let it be. hope he doesn't kill me some day while i'm putzing around in the yard. | |||
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We encounter Eastern Diamondbacks, mocasins, copperheads, and pygmies on the farm. We also have 9 grandkids and prized dogs. The key to poisonous snake survival is to avoid the homestead. But the real question here is, why did the rattlesnake cross the road? CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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The snake advocates will be glad to know I let them be now, Garter snakes & ‘copper bellies’, maybe rarely a green grass snake of sorts. As a young’un I didn’t care for most any snake. I actually show the kids now then let them go. I was out Prairie dogging years ago in SD. While driving down the drivel road here’s a snake. The ranch owner gets out and unloads a few rounds with his handgun. I think I still have the dried rattle. Virtually no harmful snakes around here. If I lived where there were any, I’d make them into buzzard bait. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
I'm not a snake advocate. I'm a sentient being advocate. I will not intentionally kill any thing that I cannot eat or wear or that doesn't pose a harm to me or other people, and if I am in a position to make an effort to assist some creature in avoiding a premature death, I will do so. It should go without saying that I would not place myself in jeopardy, like manhandling poisonous snakes, but you get the idea. When I walk across my driveway, I try to avoid stepping on bugs, believe it or not. In my book, everybody and every thing gets a chance. I'm sure this sounds silly to some of you, but it's the truth. Putting the brakes on a living thing is no small deal to me and I won't be party to such if I can avoid it and if the death serves no purpose. Life is short enough as it is. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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Brad totaled him. . | |||
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That's a good way to live and I agree with it. . | |||
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I am much the same way as you Para in this regard. As I get older even more so. I do not intentionally kill anything any more. Sometimes I feel bad catching fish and watching them in their death throes in a bucket or laying on the ice while ice fishing. To circumvent some of that I bought a live well when I go ice fishing. The fish I catch go into a live well. If I don’t catch enough by the end of the day I release what I caught. I never waste the life. We’ve had black bears roaming around the house every year. I have express permission to shoot them anytime they are on my premises from the DNR. Only in extreme cases would I shoot one. They usually run at first sight of anyone or the dog. If they don’t any noise or a shout will usually do it. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenauer posed the question of why a person would risk their life for another and concluded that the reason is that we realize that you and they are one. When this subject has come up over the years in this forum, I always point to the 1982 Air Florida crash in D.C. Go to the one minute mark and you will see what Schopenauer meant. Simply diving into that water was very dangerous. He could have become paralyzed by the frigid water before he even attempted the rescue. He was safe and dry, standing on solid ground. Why did he do this? Because he could not stand by and watch the death of another, because he and they were one. | |||
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is circumspective |
This sums up my own behavior as well. I won't even step on an ant, to the best of my ability, while out walking. It's a philosophical matter, I suppose. Everything has its right to life unless it's been forfeited by bad actions. Humans fall into this category much more than the other inhabitants of the planet, but that's another thread. Here is a little guy my wife & I recently helped across the road up to the cabin:  "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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this, grandparents preached this religiously, in fact, they were known to relocate black (King) snakes from the yard and chicken coop to the corn crib and dairy barn to keep down the mice and rats, I'll live and let be most snakes, water moccassins in the area can be aggressive, kilt a big one when he coiled up and struck at my truck tire one day where I used to live, he was headed towards the neighbors yard (and creek behind it) and she had little kids in the yard, squished that one, https://www.chesterfieldarmament.com/ | |||
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