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"Alacondas" eat people, guys!
I'm speaking with a fellow who's trying to argue that snakes are dangerous when encountered one-on-one in the wild. Apparently, a 30-foot "alaconda" in Mexico chased a woman for two miles through the woods to eat her. She got away though.
He literally tried to argue that a snake will attack unprovoked, for about 40 minutes.
I'm dying over here.
I did my best to educate him, but I'm afraid I cracked up laughing in has face toward the end. Animal Planet won this time...
Last edited by Archimedes; 06-29-2013 at 04:33 PM.
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That's just too funny!! Haha
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Like I honestly tried to show him all of the places his story erred.... but he wasn't having it. And kept going. And then I died laughing and sent him out of the store in a huff. The customer is always right, they say...
1.1 Ball Pythons
a) Calliope 0.1, Banana Ball, 2018/19 season, 600g
b) Geralt 1.0 Chocolate Sable Mojave pos. Trick ball, May 27th 2020
3.2 Cats (Fury, Leviathan, Walter, Chell, Amelie); 2.0 Dogs (Bjorn, Anubis); 2.1 Ferrets (Bran, Tormund, Arya); 0.1 Beardie (Nefertiti); 0.1 Slider Turtle (Species uncertain) (Papaya); 2.0 Hermit Crabs (Tamatoa, Sushi); 0.1 Conure (Mauii); Two Axolotyls (Quetzl and Unnamed); Two Tree Frogs (Pluto and Colossus); One Anole (Zeus); One Crestie (Noferatu); 3.0 Guinea Pigs (Paco, Poncho and Piccolo); 0.1 Pink Toe T (Azula)
Fish:
1.1 Oscar Cichlids (Rocky 1.0, hx2020, Red Fire, and Bubble 0.1, hx2019, Tiger), 1.1 Convict Cichlids (Hurley and Sloane), 0.1 Strawberry Peacock Cichlid (Comet), Two Plecos, Rubby the Rubbernose Pleco and Trinidad the common Pleco, 2.0 Upside Down Catfish (Poseidon, Neptune), One Red Parrot Cichlid (Firefly), 1.0 Betta Fish (Jenkins), 2.2 Cherry Barbs ("The Worst"), 1.0 Electric Blue Acara (Goldeneye)
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Does it really take women 40 minutes to run ~2 miles? snake deserves the kill IMO.
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Re: "Alacondas" eat people, guys!
 Originally Posted by Ryan Chin
Does it really take women 40 minutes to run ~2 miles? snake deserves the kill IMO.
No,it takes one man 40 minutes to argue that he's right. 
(Joking/sexism aside though, he thought he could win that argument with someone who's studied snakes for at least a year...)
Last edited by Archimedes; 06-29-2013 at 05:14 PM.
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a) Calliope 0.1, Banana Ball, 2018/19 season, 600g
b) Geralt 1.0 Chocolate Sable Mojave pos. Trick ball, May 27th 2020
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Fish:
1.1 Oscar Cichlids (Rocky 1.0, hx2020, Red Fire, and Bubble 0.1, hx2019, Tiger), 1.1 Convict Cichlids (Hurley and Sloane), 0.1 Strawberry Peacock Cichlid (Comet), Two Plecos, Rubby the Rubbernose Pleco and Trinidad the common Pleco, 2.0 Upside Down Catfish (Poseidon, Neptune), One Red Parrot Cichlid (Firefly), 1.0 Betta Fish (Jenkins), 2.2 Cherry Barbs ("The Worst"), 1.0 Electric Blue Acara (Goldeneye)
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Re: "Alacondas" eat people, guys!
Originally Posted by Archimedes
No,it takes one man 40 minutes to argue that he's right.
Aint that the truth. And I'm a man. lol.
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I was talking to a coworker about seeing snakes on the property in units (we work at different storage warehouses). I was surprised he knew a handful of species of snakes and knew the snakes on the property were just rat snakes.
...Then he told me he just leaves them alone instead of moving them out of the storage units because they can jump on you from 30 feet away. Okay.
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Re: "Alacondas" eat people, guys!
Originally Posted by Artemille
I was talking to a coworker about seeing snakes on the property in units (we work at different storage warehouses). I was surprised he knew a handful of species of snakes and knew the snakes on the property were just rat snakes.
...Then he told me he just leaves them alone instead of moving them out of the storage units because they can jump on you from 30 feet away. Okay.
Aha, you were like yea, that's what's up. Then after he says about jumping on you from 30 feet away I would of been like sayyy whattt? A lion or a tiger that can pounce on their prey can't jump 30 feet, what on earth of god given common sense makes you think a snake with no legs can? I honestly think I would of slapped him across the face and would of been like MOSQUITO!
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Too many Syfy original movies in this guys diet.
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He's honestly started to cheese me off.
Mere seconds after telling him about my breeding plans for the future, he begins talking about how he would have been "sooooOOOoooo much more successful" than the Florida Burmese hunters because he would have just gone around stepping on eggs and shooting pythons in the head.
Mere SECONDS.
And this was on his FOURTH trip in to talk to me today.
1.1 Ball Pythons
a) Calliope 0.1, Banana Ball, 2018/19 season, 600g
b) Geralt 1.0 Chocolate Sable Mojave pos. Trick ball, May 27th 2020
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Fish:
1.1 Oscar Cichlids (Rocky 1.0, hx2020, Red Fire, and Bubble 0.1, hx2019, Tiger), 1.1 Convict Cichlids (Hurley and Sloane), 0.1 Strawberry Peacock Cichlid (Comet), Two Plecos, Rubby the Rubbernose Pleco and Trinidad the common Pleco, 2.0 Upside Down Catfish (Poseidon, Neptune), One Red Parrot Cichlid (Firefly), 1.0 Betta Fish (Jenkins), 2.2 Cherry Barbs ("The Worst"), 1.0 Electric Blue Acara (Goldeneye)
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