A Texas woman found a 12 foot African Python in her bathroom. She called 911 and they showed up with a bucket. Let that sink in. They thought she was a hysterical woman and showed up with a bucket to put it in. Okay, that made me laugh. Turns out the snake did NOT come in through the plumbing (now THAT would have been scary) but, was an escaped pet. The owner was found and he was very glad to have his cuddly pet home. The reptile was hungry and aggressive when it was found. Probably scared too. Poor thing.
I would have realized it wasn't poisonous, but, snakes like that can hurt you when they bite. They can break the skin, even though they have no fangs or teeth. I would have shit myself. But, I wouldn't have let anyone kill it. I don't know what they hell I would have done. I know I'd have trouble lifting it alone. Miss Peg used to have a snake like that and she had to help me get it on my shoulders for a pic. I think 'Baby' was bigger than that one, but, not much. They're frickin' heavy. Baby was a nice animal. I'll bet that snake is a nice animal when it's not scared and hungry. Wouldn't you just piss yourself if you walked into your loo and saw that!?
My Aunt Ruth found a snake in her yard that weighed over 120 pounds once. It was enormous. She and her husband lived in Chicago then and she found it living in a big drainage pipe. She hated snakes, but, she didn't have it killed. She got a bunch of men to come capture it. I have that newspaper photo somewhere. I should try and find it. It shows a whole bunch of guys holding that snake up. I always liked the story because she had a heart and didn't have it killed, even though she was afraid of snakes her whole life. Aunt Ruth was a good one.
I don't have any snakes like that, that I know of. But, I have met a friendly Garter about 3 foot long that lives here. She's always in my flower beds. Last night she crawled in my Tomato box while I was planting. Curious. You don't often see Garters that big. She must be old. She isn't afraid of me anymore and checks me out up close and personal. Anyway, I just thought that story was sort of cool and it's amazing to me that we can be living with these huge creatures and not even know it.
'They' say, you're never more than three feet from a spider at any given time. I know that's true in Iowa.
5 comments:
Die snake. dIE!!!!
This is one way in which we differ. I do not like snakes unless they are on the other side of a thick plate of glass at a zoo.
I thought all snakes had fangs at least to hold their prey. W/o teeth how do they catch and hold food? I don't care, I still wouldn't get that close. Can you tell I have a huge fear of snakes?
Zoos are scarier than any snake. Awww, poor guy; so glad he is back with his owner. Yes, it would startle anyone, but I would make sure no injury would be done and get him or her back to their owner. x0
Yeah, snakes are persecuted enough. It aint fair.
Okay. Now that, is the stuff of nightmares. I have such a strong aversion to snakes. My husband thinks it is hilarious. Whenever I find one in the yard, I tell him, and he goes out there and carries it over to the cemetery fence and tosses it over. In the meantime, I lock the door so that he can't, on the spur of the moment, decide he will tease me with it.
Yikes. If I saw something like that in person, I would probably spontaneously expel my body weight in shit, and then try to run, slipping and falling in my own excrement. Then it would eat me. Truly, I am horrified.
A month or so, ago, I was moving laundry from the pile, into the washer, when I came across a baby snake. The washer is on our back porch, and it must have been able to climb onto the top step and over the sill when I went outside to take care of the birds. Scared the crap out of me. My husband heard me squealing upstairs, and came down to rescue it from me. Not that I did anything to it. I wouldn't harm a snake. I just want them all to go away. Far away.
Christina
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