A few weeks ago, I was dis***embling a 40's ford steering column. Trying to pull the housing off the shaft and it would only go so far and then stop. I gave it two or three gentle tugs and still no dice?! One good yank and it came apart and a wee little garter snake fell out the end all busted up. Now, I don't really like snakes, but I still kinda felt bad. I think he survived, though. He just crawled away a little crooked!
Twice in my life down here in the desert SW I've been working in the garage late at night, and seen "something" scooting around out of the corner of my eye. Both times it was a vinegaroon scorpion. They don't generally bother people but they are so damn ugly, and big...
we also get coral snakes and brown recluse spiders. over the past 25 years, I've been stung by a scorpion, and twice there's been a coral snake in the house....and I've killed a bunch of black widows, not so many scorpions, and several rattlesnakes. The tarantulas are cute, we leave them alone. Recently one of the boys said he saw a snake in the shop, said it was not a rattler, and I never saw it....I guess it went away. Not much for them to eat in there, no mice/rats.
I once had a cat sneek in and end up locked in my shop for a couple of days. ****ped and pissed everywhere! I hate cats! Reminds me of a cat joke I heard recently, en***led "ANIMALS DON'T STUTTER"... A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students. "Human beings are the only animals that stutter", she says. A little girl raises her hand. "I had a kitty-cat who stuttered", she volunteered. The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident. "Well", she began, "I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler who lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard! "That must've been scary", said the teacher. "It sure was", said the little girl. "My kitty went 'Fffff, Fffff, Fffff'... and before he could say "****," ... the Rottweiler ate him!"
Damn snakes, you guys get off light over there, check this out. 7 of the worlds most deadly snakes are Australian, 1. Inland Taipan Or Fierce Snake 2. King Brown Snake - Pseudechis Australis 3. Taipan - Oxyur**** Scutellatus 4. MainLand Tiger Snake - Notechis 5. Eastern Tiger Snake - Notechis Scutatus Sucatus 6. Sea Kraits - Laticauda Cloubrina 7. Tiger Snake - Notechis Scutatus 8. Black Tiger Snake - Notehhis Ater 9. Death Adder - Acanthophis Antarcticus 10. Western Brown Snake - Pseudonaja Nuchalis As for spiders, the Red Back a more venoumous species of the Black Widow languishes in fourth place in our most deadly spiders. I remember playing with the Brown and King Browns because they were not the real dangerous ones. I always stayed clear of the Tigers though, they were nasty and I remember being chased by them on quite a few occasions! Very aggressive our snakes are, if you get close they come after you. Same with the Funnel Web and Mouse spider, those ****ers chase you as well. The quickest fatality from a Funnel Web invenomation was a little under 6 minutes, so kiss your **** good bye! The worst thin is, all of these ****ers just love to live in the same places as us and in the cars we all love so much. Old tin hunting can be real fun out here!! Doc.
NJ....property tax quarterly costs more than most United States mortgages....mortgages cost more than we earn, can't smoke in the bars, unbelievably crowded, rude people, gangs, mafia, horrible drivers on suicidal packed highways, tons of heat in the summer and insane snow in the winter. But when is the last time a pigeon killed someone? Bless the Garden State.
a few weeks ago I had just finished up a two week run of OT and all I wanted to do was work on my truck. Everytime I got under it I smelled this god awful stench. It was a dead rat the size of a Chiwawa under the mower. Thats pretty much all I have ever found in my shop except a couple of bird nests. we have a wasp problem down here. I am scared to death of them and will straight arm an elderly person to the throat and use them as a door mat to get away . little *******s..
You might try putting a small space heater on the floor in the garage. Turn it on and leave. Make sure there are no oily rags around. The snake is going to seek the heat so you may not have to "clean out the garage". He's probably after the mice there. Good luck.
this thread is giving me the creeps.I hate snake.that why I would not go to Australia!something over there will sting ya,strike ya,or just eat your ***.piss on that.wish I'd never read this damn thing...about a month or 2 ago I walked in the garage and sit down a bag of floor dry.walked in the office walked right back out and got ready to pick up the bag.looked down and this black cord was on top of it.looked again, its moving.holy ****!! yanked my hand away and went and got the shovel.it was a 6 1/2 ft black snake.I must have sat the bag almost on him.yeah I'm not afraid of the animal rights nuts,I'm afraid of snakes!!I whacked its head off..I'm a bit of a hillbilly the rest of the guys at the garage are city slickers.I took the snake and walked down the drive and pitched it out in the road.lol..funny I had a few of the guys from the garage see it out in the road and they said they wouldn't be woking in there if it was up on the property..I kept it a secret til now..ha ha sorry Ron I know you will see this. lol.It'll be cold soon they won't be out.Oh yeah.don't say a black snake won't hurt ya..it damn near gave me a heart attack.
I remember once driving along some ****ty road in the top end of Oz while I was in the Army. ran over the biggest Tiger snake I had ever seen the thing had to be 8ft long! The guy that was in the Ambo with me wanted the skin so we went back, it had to be dead right? run over by 8.2 tone of ambo with 6 wheels?? Hell I thought so. He jumped out and was about five ft from it when it decided it wanted revenge. He dived back onto the bonnet yelling GO! The thing left scratches where it had bitten the side of the Ambo and small puncture holes in the front tyre! Venom all over the thing. Kept up to us until we hit like 60kmh.
So far, no. I moved **** around last night until 10 when I gave up. I left the air on super-chill overnight and put a 60watt light in a metal box on the floor. I figured if it was in there it would home in on the box and that would be where I'd find it. No snake this morning so more than likely it crawled out the open door yesterday. I wish I'd sprinkled some talc across the doors so I'd know for certain.
with all this talk of creepie crawlies....look what wandered out from under the couch right under where I was sitting, and walked across the living room floor late last night.....that's my shoe he's squashed onto these little scorpions are the nasty ones. this is the first one I've seen in the house in a long time, and it's pretty creepy
we had a skunk. dont know how long the ******* was there but if skunk hibernate im sure he was there for a long time. there was a bag on the floor in the corner under a shelf. spring rolls around, go to move it and the bag starts flipping out. turns out the skunk had gotten stuck trying to get out of the bag. lol. my father flipped when he saw it in there. funny ****
i used to have critters in my shop keeping me from working on....whatever...but once i stopped payin for the beer, they went away.....
Snakes are fine, you just have too leave em alone. Spiders on the other hand, smaller and easy to miss, grab the wrong thing and its good night for ever!
Damnit!! I'm F*&^($g petrified of snakes and now after reading this the hair on my arms is standing up and I'm checking out of the corners of my eyes to see if anything moves. I can deal with the scorpions out here in NM, but this snake thing they have going on creeps me the hell out. I HATE snakes. Nik
How about we send you 10 of ours in the mail so you can get over your phobia, they call it flooding. It works, either you get over the fear or your bitten and die, either way your not worried anymore.
Sorry to hear all this. Snakes used to be my bread and ****er. I spent a lot of years as curator of reptiles before I became ***istant zoo director. I actually like what other people think of as creepy crawlers, but I am practical enough to not want to be bitten by a venomous one and I'd recommend others avoid it too.
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