¡Snek!

[EMAWesome 101]

Now this would seem like a perfect job for robots.

[Wally Pryor 5388]

Wonder what sort of check was written for said services?   

Wasn't enough, regardless. 

[Zepol87 9308]

Yea fuck that job

[EE2B 1569]

Now this would seem like a perfect job for a bomb.

Fifme

[RollLeft 5088]

Should come under firefighter services.  Earn that raise dude.

[CoTex 1177]

5 hours ago, RollLeft said:

Should come under firefighter services.  Earn that raise dude.

Agree 100%.  These guys are heros right?  Prove it mf’er.

[EMAWesome 101]

 

[Underdog 29102]

Nope.

[crash_davis 23465]

On 3/20/2019 at 11:02 AM, thestud said:

https://ktxs.com/news/local/dozens-of-rattlesnakes-found-underneath-big-country-house


Scroll down in the story and there’s a 17 minute video of the snek wrangler doing some snek wranglin’.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[Gooby 642]

3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

How the fuck are those guys so calm?  The A/C in my office kicked on while I was watching that and I about jumped out of my fucking chair

[EE2B 1569]

How the fuck are those guys so calm?  The A/C in my office kicked on while I was watching that and I about jumped out of my fucking chair

[Chad Fuck 18091]

[thunderlounge 8318]

That’s some wild shit. 

[Underdog 29102]

Coitus interruptus?

[Trey3216 15450]

54 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Coitus interruptus?

Don't be fatuous, Underdog. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Home sick today. Tired of shutting my brains out, took some Imodium and decided to go for a walk along some mountain bike trails. I see something green about eye level in thicket about 5 feet from the trail. I was hoping it would be a Rough Green Snake, but it was just a green anole. But I see something about a foot away also catching some rays. Probably a 2 foot copperhead. I have never seen one this high in a tree. Couldn’t get a good pic because of the shadows and there was no need to disturb him.

[thunderlounge 8318]

Well, shit. 

[NorthLoop 14421]

I like how Swayze just strolls outside his house and finds these fuckers everywhere. You're the lighthouse keeper on snake island, aren't you? 

[davidg 4057]

That snake island place seems like the idea location for an above ground nuclear bomb test.

[South Austin 53154]

1 hour ago, davidg said:

That snake island place seems like the idea location for an above ground nuclear bomb test.

But their poison helps people and stuff.

[Trey3216 15450]

21 minutes ago, South Austin said:

But their poison helps people and stuff.

They have entire wings of the CDC for shit like that

[SurlyBDR 23103]

1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

They have entire wings of the CDC for shit like that

What's the UT athletics department got to do with this 

[Horn_Spanker 524]

7 hours ago, Underdog said:

Coitus interruptus?

I think I had that Blue Oyster Cult album in high school?

[thunderlounge 8318]

42 minutes ago, SurlyBDR said:

What's the UT athletics department got to do with this 

Mother fucker’s everywhere. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I like how Swayze just strolls outside his house and finds these fuckers everywhere. You're the lighthouse keeper on snake island, aren't you? 

Well, I did live in Brazil. But for obvious security reasons I can’t confirm the location.

My experience with copperheads is they have a rather easy going temperament. I have handled them on several occasions (no, not with my hands), and I haven’t seen one strike. Cottonmouths are rather bitey though. Hell, almost all the water snakes in Texas are rather bitey.

[Parliament 14559]

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[Patricio Swayze 17058]

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Looks like a rat snek. Good snek. Just pick it up and put it somewhere else to do rat snek things.

I saw one yesterday. Unfortunately it was moments from death after being run over.

[Homesickhorn 2217]

Looks like a rat snek. Good snek. Just pick it up and put it somewhere else to do rat snek things.

 

I saw one yesterday. Unfortunately it was moments from death after being run over.

 

That sucks. The one in the FB post looks like a black rat snek. They get a bad rap due to their size and how mean they can look, but they really are one of man’s best friends.

[Parliament 14559]

Well let me apologize to rat sneks everywhere.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Well let me apologize to rat sneks everywhere.

I suppose it’s a start.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

This cold front kind of screwed up the snake hunt today.  Still though, found 7 snakes.  My first Speckled Kingsnake as well, although it was a rough looking juvenile.  Others were Cottonmouth, Ribbon, Rough Earth Snake, and Texas Ratsnake.

[4th and 5 4997]

Speckled kingsnake. A great find.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Speckled kingsnake. A great find.

Yep, first for me. It was a juvenile and was a bit rough around the edges, but I was stoked. The guy that I went with said the ones down in Galveston have a great burnt orange color to them. I said I need to go.

Only disappoint was no hognose or ringneck snakes.

[EE2B 1569]

Can you tell where you were at so I can make sure I never got there?

[Parliament 14559]

23 minutes ago, EE2B said:

Can you tell where you were at so I can make sure I never got there?

Texas

[bmbmd 1040]

Friday was a beautiful day, and I made the two and a half hour drive to the old home place in Young County for some spring cleaning.  We're going to re-purpose one of Granddad's old deserted sheds, and it was a mess.  After removing all the junk, I started the scooping/sweeping/ cleaning phase of the operation.  All that remained on the floor was an ancient, gold spray-painted three unit shelf.  As I was sweeping around it, I noticed an old ski rope curled underneath the bottom shelf-maybe two inches off the ground.  "Strange" thought I-"I don't remember putting a ski rope there".  Out of monkey curiosity, I poked the rope with the end of my broom-and it began to move.  Again, I thinks:"Must be one of our friendly rat snakes".  The head emerged, revealing a broad, plated, triangular shape that looked oddly like a diamondback rattlesnake.  "Shit" says I, and I jumped away.  I had the presence of mind to pull the shelving unit over with me as I moved.  My dynamite crate full of antique glass telephone line conductors went crashing to the floor, shattering this way and that, and I gave not a fuck.  I learned years ago not to enter that barn without a farm implement nearby, and my trusty hoe was leaning near the door.  The snake was trying to exit from under the shelf, and looked enormous,  I beat the shit out of it with my hoe, smashing the head and eventually breaking the handle.  Then, I fetched a nearby shovel, carried the still writhing snake out in to the grass, and finished the job.  The crotalid, dead but still writhing, measured sixty three inches, and appeared to be in a family way.  I love snakes as much as the next guy, but that snake, in that barn, less than sixty yards away from the yard where my dogs and grandkids play-is going to die every time. I'm getting a little sick of rattlesnakes.  

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Damn.  I get why it died.  Not gonna lecture anyone that kills a venomous snake at a residence or whatever.  But I am not sure which is more upsetting, an incredible specimen dead or the destroyed antique glass telephone line conductors.  Boil the head for me and send me the skull.

[EMAWesome 101]

Snakes:  Therapy for anger management issues since the Garden of Eden.

[SurlyBDR 23103]

Hungry snek still hungry (didn't know where else to put this)

 

[thunderlounge 8318]

Video needs yakkity sax. 

[Frank Erwin 203]

Great action shot of the Cottonmouth, Swayze.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Great action shot of the Cottonmouth, Swayze.

Thanks.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I finally found an Eastern Hognose today.  He promptly puffed up and then shit himself, threw up his toad lunch and then played dead.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 hour ago, Patricio Swayze said:

I finally found an Eastern Hognose today.  He promptly puffed up and then shit himself, threw up his toad lunch and then played dead.

Fucking pussy snek !!!

[Handcruser 2814]

What kind is this?


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[HenryJames 67116]

19 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

What kind is this?


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Asp. Very dangerous.

[RMac5 1552]

24 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

What kind is this?


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That there is the best kind of snek 

[South Austin 53154]

17 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Asp. Very dangerous.

You go first.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

What kind is this?


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Looks like a Ratsnake. Good snake.

[4th and 5 4997]

It’s a rat snake.