Funny Snake Story from a friend

Over on the Flutenet, the subject of snakes came up in a discussion through something of a roundabout way. Sandy C., in North Carolina, posted the following story in response to one of the snake comments, quoted directly from her post:

Funny snake story from my house: One day I was working in my kitchen, and noticed that a pair of cardinals that was nesting in the giant holly bush out my window were raising quite a ruckus (that's a technical term). I decided there must be a cat lurking near their nest, so I went out to chase it away. It turned out to be lovely large garter snake (nonpoisonous, sometimes kept as pets), but I couldn't reach it deep in the holly bush without getting a million stickers in me. So, I ran back in the house, got my kitchen tongs, and went back outside. I gently took hold of the snake about 8 inches back from its head, and it obligingly coiled the rest of his/her length around the tongs and my arm, and came loose from the holly bush. I then walked across my backyard, across the golf tee area just behind it, to the creek, and let it go. The foursome that was waiting to tee off saw me and gave me some seriously drop-jawed looks, so I turned and said...
"I had one too many for a pie..."
and kept walking....

-Sandy C in NC

Seems like this lady did it a favor instead of killing it like some people would.

very nice catch and release tactic..lol
great story, thanks for sharing
Rusty

That was great, I like hearing stories like that. They don't come about too often. Most of the time you hear of the person stoning the poor thing to death or something similiar.

Great find.

Cute..Thanks for sharing...

Friend of my mom's called me up last summer and said there was a snake in her back yard. I drove over expecting a copperhead or something, low and behold.. Baby eastern kingsnake, probably not even 3 days old. I searched the area, couldn't find anymore. But I took him in for a few days and gave him a meal, then released him where I usually go to find snakes.

Ah.....Snake stories with happy ending's. Here is mine, kind of similiar to wizill's. Now this happend approximately 1983 so it has been a while. My only neighbor for about 2 miles who is about 80 years old at the time (yes, I lived in the middle of no where, called me one evening scared to death. She said there was a very large snake in her yard. She said she was going to come and get me instead of calling but she was afraid that it would chase her. Now get this. It was long distance for her to call me, and she was just across the street. Oh, did i mention that I also lived on the county line at the time. Well I go over there and she meet's me at the door with a shovel. I tell her that I dont need the shovel that i will just pick him up and take him to my side of the woods. :D So she tell's me where she saw him and low and behold, she was right. There he was just a sunning himself, he was a good 6 foot Black Racer. Never even tried to get away or strike at me as I picked him up. Told the neighbor to have a good day and walked to my side of the road and let it loose in my back yard. Now how is that for a happy ending. :mrgreen: Now i know it sounds like I must be a hillbilly or something, but im not. I am originally from a big city in Florida of 80,000, it's just that I chose to bring my children up in the country in Illinois. I now live in a village, yes they call it a village, of 300 people.

Wow I wasn't even alive when that story took place. Not make you feel old or anything.. :D

Great story anyways, ALWAYS nice to have a happy ending to a snake story.

Now why would that make me feel old? Just because I have 2 children older than that story shouldnt make me feel old. Should it? :? wahhhhhh!!! Damn im old. Hey wait a minute....I think Hoomi is older than me.....Woo Hoo!!!!

I'm 44 now...

Hoomi, I knew that you had recently turned 44, that's why I said you were older. Not by much, but older. I use to introduce my ex as the old lady and she would allways say "But your the same age" and I would have to remind her that "yeah, but you are 26 day's older than I and that's all that count's, thus, you are the old lady". All in kidding and fun.

Ok the funniest rescue I've been on (I have too many rescue stories):
HMMM I'll share the alligator one:
one night at approx 2 am I get a call from an animal control officer. The ACO from a couple of towns over is explaining that an elderly woman has called 911 due to an "alligator on the front lawn", So guess who gets to get outta bed and go for a 20 mile drive in the middle of the night. So I meet up with the ACO down the street from this womans house. We get our handy maglights out and start investigating. We can litterally hear this poor woman screaming a few yards away, so as we get closer to her yard we see a mass in her yard, Kinda hard to make out, I've got my trusty hook and the ACO has his trusty snare and we're ready to go, well we can make out that it's big and it's green and we take a few more steps and low and behold it is a alligator. Accually an alligator shaped floatation device for the neighbors pool...lololol.
So what am I to do but run up and jump on it like a dumbass, that poor elderly woman thought it was eating "a nice young lady" in her front yard.lol
Anyhow she was quite thankfull for our services, and home we went to share our adventures with our patiently waiting families..
Such fun
RUSTY

Awsome-if it was me,i would probably have run up and wrestled it into submission too-those air filled ones i hear are the most dangerous floaties! :D

It almost bit my leg off, And I don't even get paid for rescues...lol I would've had to sue myself for workmans comp....lol

lmao
well i hope youve been paying yourself workmans comp if you plan to collect-that could get confusing,especially when your running between plainiff and defendants tables countering your own comments.
So did you get any cool scars from the attack?

I would have popped it out of spite. Great story, why are old ladies such babies? Sheeesh

Speaking of crocs, Lake Placid was on sci-fi over the weekend. It was awsome

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So did you get any cool scars from the attack?

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I have almost more scar stories then I do rescue stories, I think I need a different forum lol
But there is a lot of them if anyone is interested in hearing the stories, Let me know..lol
Rusty

lol,for a sec i thought you were going to say you have more scar stories than actual scars

Man the story's I could tell about alligators. From an alligator that got into our church, to watching an alligator swim by while me and my brother are holding our breath in a submerged VW, to catching a little 2 footer and taking it to a friends home and having my friends mother chase us out of her house with a broom, and yes, she connected a couple of times with it......Awww....childhood memories.

wow i didnt know illonois had so many gators!Think the only animal that ever charged me as a kid was a scared baby groundhog.

Aha.....not noticed several of my post's have ya. I am originally from Florida. Left in 1975. I am an implant in the Yankee North

I guess it would be hard to pass off alligators in Illinois.

I was born in Eau Gallie Florida, raised in Merritt Island Florida. My father worked and Retired from RCA at Cape Canaveral NASA....He moved us up here and I have been here everysince except when i was in the military. Just thought I would clarify

lets hear somemore "scar stories"
they're very entertaining

Ive only been around here about a week i only know from what i read,but figured you were farther south when this stuff happened.

-Ya stories are always good,more stories.