What is your scariest snake moment?

[mr. s]

I am going to guess that there are some great snake stories out there. I am interested to hear your scariest moment with a snake.

For me, I was rafting down the nile in Uganda a couple summers ago, when someone in the raft asked the guide what was swimming in the water towards the raft. He immediately yells at everyone to start paddling out of its way. Turns out that it was a black mamba. That was a little too close for me.

Lets hear your scary stories!

[rellek]

My green tree python got stuck in my ink jet printer.. that was fun/scary. I know not the same type of story your talking about but hey.. why not..

[singingtothewheat]

When I was a kid our family spent a lot of time at a little pond that was owned / run by the teachers in the district. I was fishing one day and pulled out a water moccasin, before I even knew what happened my dad pulled out a gun and shot it. It wasn't the snake that scared me it was the noise from the gun. But it definitely made an impression on me.

[j_h_smith]

Some time ago, I was out in the wilds of Africa, when I reached into the a pile of leaves to wipe my butt (even explorers need to use the bathroom). Seems like I wiped with poision ivy. A little later in the day we came upon a 29 foot Rock Python. I was scratching my butt with one hand and trying the wrangle the snake into a bag with the other hand when I slipped and the snake bit my hand and took it completely off with one bite. I finally got the snake into the bag and set off for home. I traveled from Africa to Ireland where I boarded a luxury liner set for New York. Seems like it was this ship's maiden voyage, but that was okay, because they said this was a great ship. We did well until we got around some iceburgs in the north Atlantic. We seemed to hit one and the ship started to sink. I quickly ran and got the Rock Python from storage and got into a life boat with my snake. Long story short, we got to New York and everyone was glad to see me and my snake.

That was until someone read to me a new bill that was being introduced in Congress. Something about not being able to import this kind of snake into the United States any longer. Well, I had to give up the snake at the customs office.

So it goes to show you that if you don't fight for your ability to continue with your hobby, the same thing could happen to you.

Jim Smith

[Freakie_frog]

Nothing like having your breeder Spider male get loose in the middle of breeding season..

[JLuck13]

i have 1 1/4" plugs in my ears and one day when i was playing with my Ij sibs my female crawled through one and got stuck... how fun do you think it is to pull a pissed of snake literally THROUGH your ear lobe and have to worry about getting tagged multiple times in the side of the head/face/ear...

[Beardedragon]

I stepped on a rattle snake once here in GA.

That made me have to change my pants.

The scariest part though was when my little lesser escaped, tore up the room looking for him, and could not find him. I open the door after an hour of searching and there he is

[piper]

I stepped on a rattle snake once here in GA.

That made me have to change my pants.

The scariest part though was when my little lesser escaped, tore up the room looking for him, and could not find him. I open the door after an hour of searching and there he is

I second this one! Lifting up 1 hide, no snake, lifting up the other.. well, still no snake.. it's makes everything in your body just go numb..

Happened to me about 3 weeks ago with my male mojave..

[Oroborous]

Same for me too, my adult female escaped and I tore apart my room, and then the house searching for her. She is my first snake and to say I was distraught is an understatement. My little sister found her on the top shelf in my closet five minutes after I had destroyed my room, lol, but I was so happy to have her back I cried. Now everyone has locked and secure doors.

[jjsnakedude]

Our family owns a lake house and a boat and one day me and my brothers were fishing off our dock in the dark and all of the sudden this big water snake slitherd up on the dock but we didnt know what it was. then the dock light died and we were stuc there for half an Hour in the dark over water wondering if a water mocasin was going to get us. after a while the light came back up and later we found it was a harmless diamond back water snake.