Well while im sitting here eating breakfast and watching TV I put on the discovery channel. The show that is on is "The Colony". Its another useless survivor show that is supposed to be a post apocolyptic scenario. There is a group of people trying to survive as if they were the last people on earth.

Now to the snake smashing. A member of the group walked past a snake in the abandoned house they are living in and freaks out. He yells "there's a snake in here" and of course the dramatic music starts and along with the yelling of others. Well the people decide its venomous and could kill any one of them. Though its just a green water snake, that none of the people could identify. A couple of the men decided they would get a metal pole and a large branch. They both start to smash it. They flatten most of the body.

After its dead, well who knows if it is truly dead, the people start to think how "it could of struck and killed any of us". Granted it is usually better to be safe than sorry, but in a situation like this where the people put the situation upon themselves, I do not believe any killing of wildlife is at all neccessary.

This of course could of all been avoided with a little education, instead of irrational fears created by society over the years. Though I am not judging people being afraid of snakes. That is fine, we all hate something. But what we love is constantly bashed because others find it disgusting, unneccessary and just weird.

It just realls irks me when I see things like this on TV. Its just more bad influence for the millions of other people that are not on our side or are just neutral.