Strange Sight @ Home

[VirgilCaine]

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.

How high was the freaking grass that she cut?
And what the hell kind of snakes do you need to hunt down and shoot?
The old lady didn't find a nest of non-poisonous snakes, did she?

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.

That's real mature.

And how small is your property that you call it a backyard and yet still have deer move through it?

 

[DarrenGMiller]

How high was the freaking grass that she cut?
And what the hell kind of snakes do you need to hunt down and shoot?
The old lady didn't find a nest of non-poisonous snakes, did she?

The grass was actually pretty short. It has been over 110 with heat index here for about a week. the grass is fried and with no rain until last night (after the incident), I have not cut my grass in a long time and it is still short (except for the occasional weed I need to trim down). I am not sure what kind of snakes they were. As I said, I only saw partial snakes. What I saw was about a foot long and dark brown or black with a white stomach. The head was not intact...

DM

 

[kirinke]

Next time, tell them to call animal control. And get the cops out there to charge that guy with reckless endangerment and stupidity with a gun.

Most snakes, if you leave em alone they will leave you alone. As long as they aren't in the house, I don't particularly care and if there is too much activity in the area they will move on. I'd rather have a few snakes around anyway. They keep the rodent population down.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Had a similar thing happen this morning (the snake bit, not the armed red-neck).

Woke up to a 6 foot Rat Snake in our front yard. We live in Backwoods Missouri, but we still live in a small town next to several busy roads & the neighbors have some big dogs.

I called Animal Control & they came & got it.

If we lived further in the country, I'd have kept the snake. They eat all sort of vermin & are very beneficial. I wouldn't be surprised in you all start having rat/mics/mole problems now.

Snakes are good. Snakes eat a lot of pests that arte destructive. (And if you leave the snake alone, it will leave you alone).

PS. All Black with White belly sounds like a black ratsnake (which is what the 6 footer in our front yard was). As the name suggests, they eat a lot of rodents & are very nice to have around. But, again we live in-town & the snake's lifespan was very limited).

Those snakes were probably keeping vermin from getting into your house.

 

[Aeolius]

And how small is your property that you call it a backyard and yet still have deer move through it?

20 acres

 

[der_kluge]

Dad?

 

[Goblyn]

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.

And if this person is naked you'll have a place to park your bike.

 

[MaxKaladin]

And how small is your property that you call it a backyard and yet still have deer move through it?

San Antonio is one of the 10 largest cities in the US and we have deer crossing signs in many parts of the city because of all the deer running around. You can have a regular suburban home around here and have deer in your backyard. They love flowerbeds for some reason.

As for snakes, it is possible that there could be a hidden nest even in short grass. It may have been partially or completely underground. I've seen rattlesnake nests that were just a seemingly innocent hole in the ground.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

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.

Or just finding a hoe and chopping the little snakes to bits... A shotgun is just overkill on baby snakes... Might be alright for the adult snake(s), but you really don't need them with the babies... But then have we ever seen a redneck with a BRAIN?!?!

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.

I've thought about taking a ball bat to the one we had in a tree last year after getting stung once... but just waited until they'd gone in the late fall and Mom then knocked the huge nest outta the tree and I soundly kicked a piece of it sometime after that. Before then, I just left it alone while I'd be out mowing... it was high enough to not be a nuisance.

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

ROFLMAO

Time to open a huge can of:

 

[Darth K'Trava]

The "all snakes are evil" crowd belongs in the same bottomless pit as the "D&D is evil" people. Me, I'm one of those idiots who stops to get turtles out of the road. A few months back, I saw a black rat snake heading into my neighbors yard. Knowing they had a large dog, I caught the snake and relocated it, just be be sure.

I don't mess too much with snakes. Basically if they leave me alone (ie. stay out of my house), I'll leave them alone!

Yes, I catch spiders in the house and take them outside, as well.

You sound like this one guy in our group and also the host for our games as well... His wife is scared of spiders, especially nice, BIG ones. But he'll catch them in a certain cup and then toss them back outside (where they will try to find a way back in!)... He tossed out three of varying sizes during Friday's game session...

We wonder if he's a "closet" Lolth worshiper....

Now hamsters, on the other hand, are the spawn of Satan. They must all die.

Why? 'Cause they're just sooooo cute?

Addendum: Aeolius: You must live out in the "country" part of the Piedmont Triad to be able to have plenty of land like that..... I live on 2.5 acres of land in northern Randolph county just south of High Point. We usually see plenty of rabbits and squirrels. That is if some jackass doesn't go around shooting the squirrels for the sheer hell of it.