Strange Sight @ Home

[DarrenGMiller]

I pulled into my driveway this afternoon after being trounced soundly on Halo 2 and was greeted by a strange and somewhat alarming sight. There is a large older stereotypically southern looking (read: obvious redneck) man standing in my yard with a gun in his hand and there are lots of neighbors standing out by the street watching him stalk back and forth across the yard. As I get out of the car, neighhbors are yelling for me to watch out.

Apparently, the lady next door cut her lawn and ran over a nest of snakes. She said they went everywhere and this guy is tracking them down with a .22 pistol loaded with ratshot and shooting them as he finds them. Most of them got away and everybody is paranoid now that there are snakes loose all over the place.

Personally, I was more frightened of the random guy with a gun standing on my lawn.

DM

 

[Crothian]

Wow, that's different......

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Don't you just love living in the south?

 

[Aeolius]

Were these poisonous snakes? If not, I would have threatened the gun-toting redneck with arrest.

I have lots of deer in my backyard. The first trespasser I catch trying to hunt on my land will find himself face down in a shallow grave.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

Were these poisonous snakes? If not, I would have threatened the gun-toting redneck with arrest.

Well, he was walking lines back and forth across both my yard and the neighbor who found the nest's yard. Nobody was sure if they were poisonous and all I was were dead and somewhat... umm... incomplete snake carcasses.

DM

 

[Chimera]

Were these poisonous snakes? If not, I would have threatened the gun-toting redneck with arrest.

I have lots of deer in my backyard. The first trespasser I catch trying to hunt on my land will find himself face down in a shallow grave.

Neither of these options are particularly bright.

You don't yell at or threaten people who are holding guns. This is a Bad Idea.

Killing someone because they're hunting deer, on or off your property, is a first class ticket to life imprisonment (or the death penalty, depending on where you live). It too is a Bad Idea.

If you honestly think this way, you should be locked up for your own safety as well as that of others. Hopefully this is only venting on your part and not actual thought patterns on display.

 

[mythusmage]

Neither of these options are particularly bright.

You don't yell at or threaten people who are holding guns. This is a Bad Idea.

Killing someone because they're hunting deer, on or off your property, is a first class ticket to life imprisonment (or the death penalty, depending on where you live). It too is a Bad Idea.

If you honestly think this way, you should be locked up for your own safety as well as that of others. Hopefully this is only venting on your part and not actual thought patterns on display.

There are places in the U.S. where you can kill a person for trespassing. In some you don't even need to put up a warning sign. Neglecting to inform the authorities is another matter entirely.

 

[James Heard]

There are places in the U.S. where you can kill a person for trespassing. In some you don't even need to put up a warning sign. Neglecting to inform the authorities is another matter entirely.

Yup, including Florida (the non-Southern Southern state).

What I think is stupid in this is this idea that shooting the snakes was a good idea. I've done this before, run over snake nests while mowing the lawn. Really, if you're wanting to kill the snakes you'd be better off just putting on some thick boots and jeans and keeping on mowing. The little ones are too weaselly to shoot outside of Hollywood, and any snake large enough to bite through work boots and jeans while you're chasing them down with a power mower deserves a call to animal control not the neighbors. It's like breaking out a shotgun to take down a hornet's nest, another stupid redneck idea I've witnessed personally. Why someone wants to discharge firearms when a ten dollar can of poison will do the job better is beyond me.

You break out the rifles when your neighbor opens up a nest of Yuan'ti.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Personally, if I'd seen a gun-toting redneck pacing in my yard when I got home, I'd just keep driving and try not to attract his attention...

Don't mind me, I'm just passin' through.

 

[tarchon]

I'm still getting stuck on why anybody would care one way or the other if they had snakes in their yard, much less have some lunatic run around shooting at them.