TheBanyanTree: snake story

[paul]

Good story, great pic.  I don't care for things that bite.  Poisonous 
things that bite.... if they appear, I get rid of them.

One night a couple of Summers ago, I went out about dark to close the 
chicken coop.  Got back to the patio and washed off my feet and 
flip-flops w/ the garden hose.  Saw something move so I turned on the 
porch light.  Gah!  A freakin' 3 feet long copper head.  I had a hoe 
handy and pretty much chopped it enough in the middle section that it 
wasn't going anywhere during the night.

Went out the next morning and as expected the snake was dead.  What I 
didn't expect was that it had sank it's fangs into itself.

Pretty snake, but....



Tom Smith said the following on 6/5/2010 3:10 PM:
> Signs with a coiled snake in a triangle advised CAUTION at all
> park entrances.  I had walked the trails of this well-used
> urban natural openspace area hundreds of times without seeing a
> snake of any kind.  
> 
> 
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