Pirate to the Rescue!!!

[So Pirate55]

Pirates are the mascot of ECU (my school) so that's where my name came from but anywho....


I got off work today about 3 and i'm about to set foot in my appt complex when i see one of the yardmen jump back and yell to his coworker, "whoa it's a copperhead!, grab the hoe."
Even if it was a copperhead, there's no way that i'm about to let the critter meet it's maker in the form of a garden tool. I quickly ran over, but just to keep them from killing it. I get over there and low and behold it's a corn. It was a really pretty eastern NC corn. The borders were really bold even with the dark wash that it had about it.

So i convinced the 2 men that it was not a copperhead and to let me have it. I think they also think that i'm a little crazy. It was somewhere around 2.5 feet (guessing). It was a little spooked when i tried to pick it up but other than one flightly try at a get away, it was really calm tempered. I put him in a pillowcase and it now has a new home out at one of my dad's farms.

This is my second relocation but the first real "rescue". The other one was a black ratsnake that i moved so that my mom would actually go back in the yard. Anyway, i just thought i'd share. I guess you can consider this a Natural Observation.

~Harry

[CAV]

Good jod! Let's hope the time you invested in education will pay off the next time they find a snake. ;)

[So Pirate55]

i hope so but i have the feeling that it wont. Sometimes old timers are just too set in their ways.

[ghosthousecorns]

Well done! I am apalled that so many ignorant people automatically want to kill every snake they see. When you picked up that snake in front of them they must have freaked...I hope they come get you if they find any more.

[So Pirate55]

Yeah one of them has a lil trouble speaking english so when i walked to go to work this morning he yelled "snake-man" and waved. I kinda laughed and went on about my way. Ignorant? yes, but it's what most people have been conditioned to think especially in an area where there are tons of water moccassins and the occasional timber rattler. Oh well, you try to educate and that's the best you can do

[brownie55]

OMG, East Carolina University! I used to work with a bunch of alums. Really good guys out of the music department. Small world, not like running into somebody that went to Ohio State.

Great job on the rescue. I learned in dog rescue that you can't save them all, but you can save all for some. Way to go on fighting the good fight.

[So Pirate55]

Yeah you would actually be suprised at the number of alumni that reside in the Northern VA, Maryland area. I'm starting to think there are more people from up there who attend school here than there is from NC.

[brownie55]

Pirate:

This is so off topic, but did you see that an ECU grad is gonna be on the next survivor?

:-offtopic