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nicolefowler2005

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I was just watching a cop show where some psycho lady called the cops cause there was a snake outside on her deck!! These cops get there and see a probably 6 foot black rat snake out on this woman's porch not doing anything wrong and decide to first mace the poor thing and then proceed to use their night stick to hit it in the head to kill it!! PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID!!!


Nicole
 
Oh Nicole! How awful. What's wrong with people? That snake was doing more good than harm and they were too ignorant to know it.
 
Most people are ignorant and stupid when it comes to snakes. (This includes Police officers who I have discovered tend to be just ignorant and stupid anyway.)

It's sort of up to "Us" and people like us, that own snakes or at least know the truth about snakes, to make others aware and to teach others that are scared of snakes or ignorant to the truth.

I too was scared of snakes, as was my mom, until I actually held a snake for the first time many years ago, and that only happened because somebody "Like Us" 45 years ago made it all possible. So now, keeping a pet snake is fun and exciting and different, but I also enjoy the opportunities I get to show off my snake, and to educate others.

I have told my neighbors, family and friends, Please don't kill a snake if you happen to see one call me and I'll come get it.

So far in my 58+ years existence on this Earth, I've only been asked 2 times to do this. One was from my father who had a "Brown Snake" (as he called it) on his patio. It turns out it was a Copperhead which I picked up with a snake hook and returned to the dry creek bed from which it had come at the back of his property.

Fortunately, the state I live in, Tennessee, has passed a law making it Illegal to kill a snake. Period! Any kind of snake! Venomous or not, it's against the law to kill one in Tennessee. That's one law I am proud of. Unfortunately, we have a lot of Venomous snakes in Tennessee, Copperheads, Rattlesnakes, Cottonmouths, and people still tend to kill them out of fear rather than calling somebody to come and get them. But the state will prosecute them if they catch them doing it.
 
nicolefowler2005 said:
I was just watching a cop show where some psycho lady called the cops cause there was a snake outside on her deck!! These cops get there and see a probably 6 foot black rat snake out on this woman's porch not doing anything wrong and decide to first mace the poor thing and then proceed to use their night stick to hit it in the head to kill it!! PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID!!!


Nicole
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I try not to be judgmental, but people who do things like this ought to be strapped to a chair and beaten about the neck, head, & face, in front of their children, until they are dead!

How's THAT for a solution to ignorant ass****s!!

Just sayin'. :crazy01:
 
I think it is so awesome that Tennessee has passed that law!! I think that's how it should be!! I mean i understand the situation of defending yourself against a poisonous snake but honestly probably 99% of the people who get bit by a poisonous snake where either being stupid or quite literally stepped on one!! I just don't get why people don't realize that as long as a snake is outside they are where they are supposed to be and honestly they were here first!! The woman in the story I told was so ridiculous she was in hysterics over a snake that was probably just taking care of some rats or mice under her house!!


Nicole
 
axis1 said:
I try not to be judgmental, but people who do things like this ought to be strapped to a chair and beaten about the neck, head, & face, in front of their children, until they are dead!

How's THAT for a solution to ignorant ass****s!!

Just sayin'. :crazy01:
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Or maybe just teach teach them about snakes so they don't do it again. Maybe they will teach others about snakes one day.
 
Asher9 said:
Or maybe just teach teach them about snakes so they don't do it again. Maybe they will teach others about snakes one day.
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Ok, sounds good. But even MORE of a reason that they should be beaten senseless and doused with honey before pouring a pound of fire ants on top of them should they EVER do anything REMOTELY similar another snake for as long as they live!

Sound like a good backup plan? :hair_on_fire:
 
Asher9 said:
Or maybe just teach teach them about snakes so they don't do it again. Maybe they will teach others about snakes one day.
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I tried that once. Long while back Connie and I were down in south Florida and got to talking to a property owner nearby where we were looking for snakes. The guy mentioned that he kills every one that he sees. Of course, I tried the logical approach, explaining how snakes will kill and eat vermin like mice and rats. The guy thought a few seconds, then said "Hell, I'd much rather have mice and rats around here than any damned snake."

Conversation ended....
 
axis1 said:
Ok, sounds good. But even MORE of a reason that they should be beaten senseless and doused with honey before pouring a pound of fire ants on top of them should they EVER do anything REMOTELY similar another snake for as long as they live!

Sound like a good backup plan? :hair_on_fire:
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That's fair.

I have actually have successfully introduced people to snakes who would have had no problem killing one if they came across one in their yard. One of them now just tolerates snakes. They other one LOVES snakes now and even has a children's python as a PET! I think it depends on the person, but some people are able to change.
 
Rich Z said:
I tried that once. Long while back Connie and I were down in south Florida and got to talking to a property owner nearby where we were looking for snakes. The guy mentioned that he kills every one that he sees. Of course, I tried the logical approach, explaining how snakes will kill and eat vermin like mice and rats. The guy thought a few seconds, then said "Hell, I'd much rather have mice and rats around here than any damned snake."

Conversation ended....
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+1 and that's from 6 years working for a museum of natural history, where locals and recent transplants that claimed they were nature loving responded the same. It's a weird, deeply ingrained primal fear for some people; nothing you can say or do typically.
 
I just remembered a trick I tried a long while back. Connie's mom lived in rural Delaware in farm country, and there were a couple of sheds out back of her house that seemed to be a magnet for black rat snakes. She said she used to kill any of them that she found. One day she asked me what those snakes were with the pale bluish color with smoky blue eyes. I told her those were the ghosts of the snakes she had already killed.

Not sure if she believed that or if her seeing me handle the ones I found freely without being bit finally had an influence, but she DID stop killing them.
 
There is a percentage of people that "Hate Guns" so much, they'd succumb to a murderer, rapist, robber, rather than shoot them in the head as they deserve.

These same people also think you and I should not own guns either, because "They know better than you or me."

Likewise, you can't teach anyone something about snakes or talk them out of killing one if they are hell bent on doing so.

I've tried to educate people about guns and snakes. I own both. I carry one everywhere I go. (If you think I'm speaking of corn snakes, you might be a gun hater.)

I've tried to educate folks around here about the idiocy I read in some of the posts, and I have been Chastised for doing so.

I'm pretty much through with trying to help people or teach people. Like somebody already mentioned, You can't fix Stupid.
 
Asher9 said:
That's fair.

I have actually have successfully introduced people to snakes who would have had no problem killing one if they came across one in their yard. One of them now just tolerates snakes. They other one LOVES snakes now and even has a children's python as a PET! I think it depends on the person, but some people are able to change.
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Very cool! Sounds pretty Suave Bolla to me!

But what is a "children's python?" Just curious.
 
Karl_Mcknight said:
. . . Like somebody already mentioned, You can't fix Stupid.
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Nope, you CAN'T fix STUPID! I always TRY, because ya NEVER KNOW, but trying to talk sense into someone who has to put their hand in their bra or down their pants to count to two & three respectively can be like trying to book a Calypso band at a Neo-Nazi rally!! It's a TOUGH sell!

I once interviewed a girl who wrote CAPRICORN on the part of the job application where it indicated that she was supposed to SIGN (meaning her NAME!). So, YEAH! It's difficult to TEACH someone who doesn't have the capacity of even a potato chip! Still, I always give people the benefit of the doubt. It's then up to them to either step up to the plate or not. They usually don't, but that's not on me. I believe it's on me when I stop trying.

Albert Einstein, who didn't have a reputation for being an idiot, once said that, "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Just sayin'. :my2cents_01:
 
axis1 said:
Very cool! Sounds pretty Suave Bolla to me!

But what is a "children's python?" Just curious.
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A children's python is a pretty cool kind of snake! They don't get that big and are relitivly well tempered. You should look them up. They are good pets.
 
Asher9 said:
A children's python is a pretty cool kind of snake! They don't get that big and are relitivly well tempered. You should look them up. They are good pets.
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Will do! Thanx for the response! (Been around since God was a boy, but never too old to learn!)
 
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