Rattlesnakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EMT/SRT]

Thought this was crazy! Had to share with yall. Hinson's Crossroads is about 10-12 miles from where I live. The article explains it well enough!

This picture was taken by Barbara Gay who lives in the Greenhead area. Her husband John and son Wayne were in the woods close to Hinson's Crossroads on Friday, August 29, and ran across these snakes in one spot. After neutralizing the snakes, they brought them home for the picture to be taken.

 

[TNVIPER]

Looks like mommy & daddy were on an outing with the kids.......I would never go to that spot again..:vroam:

 

[OCBob]

Damn, that's a lot of Tijuana boots.

 

[FATJACK]

Neutralizing ????

 

[EMT/SRT]

Neutralizing ????

It looks like that means chopping their lil heads off!

 

[Begood]

We don't have those here in Michigan, I'm very happy to say.

Bill.

 

[tinygiants]

That is just sad.
I hope that the snakes served a higher purpose than to just be photographed for this picture. It is a senseless waste of life if they were not eaten or processed for some alternate purpose.

 

[4DR VYPR]

That is just sad.
I hope that the snakes served a higher purpose than to just be photographed for this picture. It is a senseless waste of life if they were not eaten or processed for some alternate purpose.

If you ever lost a child to a bite from one, it would probably make you look at this pic differently.

 

[EMT/SRT]

If you ever lost a child to a bite from one, it would probably make you look at this pic differently.

AMEN!

 

[Dave T(BADVENM)]

Wow. We had 2 bull snakes about 3 feet long slittering across our parking lot at work Sunday. First time in the 10 years I've been at our office that I've seen that.

 

[tinygiants]

If you ever lost a child to a bite from one, it would probably make you look at this pic differently.

The loss of a life by any means is tragic, including the senseless loss of animal life.

 

[Black1]

That is just sad.
I hope that the snakes served a higher purpose than to just be photographed for this picture. It is a senseless waste of life if they were not eaten or processed for some alternate purpose.

Going to have to agree with this one.... Why in the HELL would you jump in between all those snakes just to kill them, pack them up, and take them home with you.... all for a picture. :dontknow:

1. It's stupid... the dumb-ass could have been killed.
2. It's a sensless waste of life.

Tip of the day: If you see a whole family of Rattlesnakes while hiking, and you don't like snakes.... Leave them the F*CK ALONE.

.......... Reminds me of the dip-shit college student that cut down Promethius (the worlds oldest known tree at over 5000yrs old) just to see how old it was.

 

[OCBob]

.......... Reminds me of the dip-shit college student that cut down Promethius (the worlds oldest known tree at over 5000yrs old) just to see how old it was.

I've had the chance to go out and see Methusalah (also a bristle cone) in the White Mountains. I went with a college professor who was writing a book on the natural history of California.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452897.A_Natural_History_of_California

 

[Black1]

I've had the chance to go out and see Methusalah (also a bristle cone) in the White Mountains. I went with a college professor who was writing a book on the natural history of California.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452897.A_Natural_History_of_California

He must have some pull, because they keep the actual location of Methuselah very secret. It is now the oldest known living (non-clonial) thing on earth. I bet it was a neat trip, always wanted to see the Bristle Cone groves out West.

 

[OCBob]

He must have some pull, because they keep the actual location of Methuselah very secret. It is now the oldest known living (non-clonial) thing on earth. I bet it was a neat trip, always wanted to see the Bristle Cone groves out West.

Yeah, he's pretty well known in the right circles out here. He has written a few books on natural history. I had him for a few courses, including Ecology and Zoology, but his passion is California.

It is something to see, that tree no more than the rest, other than the fact that it is the oldest. There really is some cool stuff in California. I try to educate my kids on it, in fact we used to pile in the Denali and just roam around the state with Allan's book. That was before it was over $100 to fill the thing and I had the money to fill it hehehehe.

 

[stick]

That is just sad.
I hope that the snakes served a higher purpose than to just be photographed for this picture. It is a senseless waste of life if they were not eaten or processed for some alternate purpose.

I guess you have never had a run in with one. Rattle snakes are deadly. thank God them people killed them.

 

[Black1]

Yeah, he's pretty well known in the right circles out here. He has written a few books on natural history. I had him for a few courses, including Ecology and Zoology, but his passion is California.
...

So he doesn't go around cutting down 5000 year old trees then? LOL!

Very cool, Bob.... we have to see as many natural wonders as we can, because (for various reasons) they don't tend to be around for long anymore.

 

[tinygiants]

I guess you have never had a run in with one. Rattle snakes are deadly. thank God them people killed them.

I have to respectfully disagree. To kill things just because they are deadly is short sited. Everything in life is deadly; cars, drinking, smoking, drugs, working.... It is not very often that a snake and humans have a deadly encounter. And it is even more rare that the encounter happens in areas of cicilization. The civilizition encounters are a result of us encroaching on the natural terain that the wildlife once inhabited. Maybe we are really the villan.

I was born and raised in Charleston SC. There are rattlesnakes in that area. I did see them on occassion. Copper heads were way more common though. We had them in our yard. But like I said, that was due to us moving to the woods and clearing a spot of land. So we invaded thier home.

 

[OCBob]

So he doesn't go around cutting down 5000 year old trees then? LOL!

No, I think the only thing he cuts down are bushes that might be a couple of months old hehehehe.

 

[OCBob]

I have to respectfully disagree. To kill things just because they are deadly is short sited. Everything in life is deadly; cars, drinking, smoking, drugs, working.... It is not very often that a snake and humans have a deadly encounter. And it is even more rare that the encounter happens in areas of cicilization. The civilizition encounters are a result of us encroaching on the natural terain that the wildlife once inhabited. Maybe we are really the villan.

I was born and raised in Charleston SC. There are rattlesnakes in that area. I did see them on occassion. Copper heads were way more common though. We had them in our yard. But like I said, that was due to us moving to the woods and clearing a spot of land. So we invaded thier home.

Agreed! I have caught rattlesnakes before out here, but instead of killing them I take them out a little farther from people and let them go. I don't want them in my yard with my kids, but that doesn't mean I have to kill them. If I were going to use the meat and the skin that would be one thing, but to kill them just because they are here doesn't make much sense to me.