Question for all

Crazy isn't a bad place to be. Reality is way over-rated!


~~Jo~~

I love my snakes period. Most people I know do not like snakes. Some are afraid, the others make up a reason(their evil,slimy, ugly, mean, ect.ect.ect.) I have never been given a true reason (fact based personal experiance that backs up their reasoning) but it stills boils down to fear and lack of information. I never try to force my snakes on any one, I do respect that some people do have a a deep rooted fear. There is a lot of ignorance out there when it comes to snakes. I try to get good information out there in the public and use my "Babies" as a tool to contradict bad information. I can prove any information about my snakes, it is hard to argue with long time personal experiance.

One of my kid's grand-dads was bitten, apparently quite badly, by a snake when he was a small child playing in the yard. I assume he probably grabbed at it or something and likely his parents freaked making the whole situation even more traumatic.

He does have a fear of snakes like I've never seen. Even rubber snakes make this big truck driver guy go dead white. For him, I don't even mention our snakes or would ever have them in sight when he's visiting.

Other than that, I think most people are just scared of the unknown.


~~Jo~~

Hay Frankykeno, I know someone just like that. Of course he is a fellow police officer so we had much fun with that....lol. Once we put a rubber snake sort of like a green tree python under his police car. We tied fishing line around the snakes head and then glued it to the bottom of his drivers door with a spot of super glue. When he opened his door, that rubber snake came out from under that car, and we had to stop him before shots were fired...It was great. Of course that was a prank in retaliation, when we get boared, strange things start happening around the office, and let me tell ya, a room full of cops, a can of peperspray, and some imagination goes a long way....lol:psychotic

well my mom hates snakes my older bro loves them my nieces love them and my sisters hate them and my friends always tell me i am a snake dork lol cause when we chill i just come off with weird statements like did you know that snakes are mainly nocturnal and alot of animals are nocturnal lol. but i dont care snakes are amzing creatures and i own two beautiful rtbs at this point and i have owned about 6-7 snakes in my 16 year life and they are o so amazing.

Ray,

A very dear friend of mine is recently retired from Dekalb County where he was a homicide detective before working in the ME's office.

The stories he told me about your guys' "shenanigans" have me rolling on the floor in tears!

I guess in the type of job you have, you have to have a sense of humor to alleviate all the stressful things your see and endure each day. And a very DRY sense of humor to boot.

My favorite story was he and his partner would often stop at one of the major hotels in downtown Atlanta (one of the highrises with the glass elevators inside, fancy, schmancy) to have lunch in the restaurant. They used to like to get on the elevator and be in the back and wait for a large group of people to get one.

Then they'd start talking to each other casually about "isn't this the hotel where that series of murders took place several years ago?" and the other one would say "Yeah, sure is"...."I thought so, did they ever figure out who did it?" "nope, but we always suspected it was one of the employees who had access to the rooms, but couldn't prove it"...then DING and the floor where it stopped where most of the people would get off they'd go "isn't this the floor most of the murders took place?" "yup, I think you're right".

Then they'd go down to the restuarant to eat and the manager would come running over and say "have you guys been riding the elevators again? The switchboard is lighting up!!" (by the way, no murders ever occured).

Or the one time he was in in the elevator with his wife and there was a Giddeon Bible convention going on, and a bunch of people had their nametags on and he casually said "you know, I'm never going to stay here again!" and she'd say "why not?" and he'd say "because there was not a Bible in the room and that's just not acceptable!" and they'd all be falling over themselves to ask what room he was in so they could fix that!

Won't go into some of the crazier stuff!

He never fails to make me laugh and put a smile on my face! We know each other through an adoption list (we're both adult adoptees in search for birth family).

Robin

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Everyone asks "oh do they bite!!!". Simple answer...if it has teeth it "can" bite....will it....not likely. I've been bit more by my own 4 darling children then by any of our pets actually LOL (pets are better trained I think).

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Ha! I can top that one! I just heard today that one of the residents at my grandmother's nursing home bit a healthy chunk out nursing aide's breast this past week. Apparently she was well endowed, and the resident was senile and was tired of her bending over her and "fiddling" with her and took matters into her own hands.....er.....mouth! LOL

It's not funny, but at the same time....it so is! I'm sorry, it's past my bedtime!

Robin

Omg Robin I darn near inhaled coffee laffing at your post!!!! I was on the phone gabbing with my mom years ago when my oldest was a baby. I was barefoot and swinging my foot. Guess baby dearest decided I made a perfect target for her new toofers and latched on to my bare toe. I started screaming (it really HURT) and my poor mother was in fits thinking some wierdo was breaking into my house. Thank goodness I got the lil heathen off my toe and managed to stop mom dialing 911.

Oh and Ray, hardee har har, I used to be a police dispatcher. You guys are just not funny! (Ya know the dispatcher is always the first to get ganged up on by a bunch of bored, small town cops with too little to do, and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much caffiene in their blood streams LOL).


~~Jo~~

P.S. However the dispatcher is also quite capable to deciding which cop gets to go talk to the nutsy old lady with the dog barking complaints and the visits from the lil green men (this would be called.....REVENGE *smirk smirk*)

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

P.S. However the dispatcher is also quite capable to deciding which cop gets to go talk to the nutsy old lady with the dog barking complaints and the visits from the lil green men (this would be called.....REVENGE *smirk smirk*)

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And this is precicely why I do not play pranks on the dispatchers, It is like writing a ticket to the dude that makes your burger, not a smart thing...lol

I did know of a dispatcher at another agency that started a small prank war with a couple of officers... He wound up being run up the flag pole (literally) and smoked off with paint ball guns. Needless to say, that story will make anyone's guts hurt from laughing too much. By the way, that ended the little prank war for quite a while. :laughing:

My wife is afraid of them, my mom is afraid of them, my 18-month old daughter loves them, my grandparents don't like them, my dad has no problem with them, my sister likes them, and most of my co-workers don't like them or are scared of them. A lot of people think I am a freak besides my toddler daughter and my sister, and maybe my dad.


I would say about 70% of the people I come in contact with daily dislike them or are afraid and 20% love them. 10% aren't afraid but don't have the passion I do for them.

I am going to try to get my wife used to them slowly. I will be getting my corn on August 15 or August 16. It will be my first. I will teach my daughter to not be afraid of snakes. Most of human fear of snakes comes from their parents and it is usually senseless fear.