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Originally Posted by Chris Steele
Dispose does mean set it free in this case, right??
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I've no doubt they set the little guy free somewhere on the outskirts of town. Animal control would have no cause to snuff out it's life merely for it's intrusion into the domain of the U.S. Postal Service.
It is unfortunate that over the years I've heard too many people talk about killing snakes that merely turn up in their back yards. This without even bothering to identify whether it is poisonous. (Not that I condone the killing of poisonous snakes, but I can understand it if a person's child is normally playing in the back yard)
For far too many people, fear of snakes is very real and it is a common human failing that that which we fear and/or do not understand, we must destroy. It was the same thinking which wiped out the wolf populations from the lower 48 states with few exceptions.
My girlfriend's mother, who holds a PHD and teaches at a local college is deathly afraid of snakes. Obviously it is not solely the uneducated or unintelligent people who fear them. Ignorance exists within people from all walks of life.
Erik