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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:37:07 PM EDT
These pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago at Ft Huachuca, AZ.
The story goes that the guy was sitting at his desk when this critter slithered right between his feet looking for a warm place to curl up.    |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:38:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:39:47 PM EDT
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damn
damn damn damn damn damn |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:40:28 PM EDT
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 can you say 'permanent psychological scars'? Nevermind the bullet-holes in all those electronics and such...... |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:40:51 PM EDT
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Crotelus atrox I believe it's called.
Western Diamondback rattlesnake, sometimes called a coontail rattler. The snake responsible for most poisonous snakebites in the U.S. Produces one of the more painful bites from a venomous snake due to the large hypodermic fangs. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:42:08 PM EDT
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I'm an accountant.
I ride a desk. I describe my job as endless hours of boredom broken only moments of sheer terror. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:42:12 PM EDT
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holy s<beeeep>t!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:42:32 PM EDT
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Now that is garunteed to get your attention.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:42:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:44:09 PM EDT
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Thems GOOD eatin!
I could have saved $6 lunch money that day! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:44:40 PM EDT
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That desk looks almost like mine! Yikes!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:45:27 PM EDT
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Yeah, and my Mossburg 500 put the painful bite on one in my back yard a couple of months ago. 1 1/4 oz of #9 shot is a very effective snake repellent. 
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:47:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:55:07 PM EDT
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Ah, the Fort We-Got-You/Sorry Gulch area. I spent a year or so there. It was, uh, *different*.
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Posted: 10/12/2004 1:56:29 PM EDT
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" Hey Tom......what's that rattling...?"
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:08:24 PM EDT
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I thought the coral snake was most venomous?
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:10:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:13:15 PM EDT
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The coral snake has the quickest acting venom as it's nuerotoxic. However, they are docile and have to chew on you a bit to get venom into you as they don't have the big fangs of a rattlesnake. Rattlesnakes have hemotoxic poison, but Western Diamondbacks are large, somewhat terretorial and quite common. They bite, maim and kill more than any other snake in the U.S. They inject a lot of venom on a bite, thus causing more extensive tissue damage and shock. Their venom destroys tissue and blood as it works through your body. Antivenom injections help a lot, but quite often tissue is lost due to necrotism as the tissues cells are destroyed by the venom. VERY PAINFUL BITE ALSO! I wanted to be a herpetologist at one time, so I've studied snakes. Used to catch rattlesnakes alive....damn I was young and stupid... |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:15:20 PM EDT
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quoted: Crotelus atrox I believe it's called. Western Diamondback rattlesnake, sometimes called a coontail rattler. The snake responsible for most poisonous snakebites in the U.S. Produces one of the more painful bites from a venomous snake due to the large hypodermic fangs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Painrx- You may be (iirc probably are) right. I interpret Coz's post to mean "the Western Diamondback inflicts the greatest quantity of poisonous snakebites..." |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:16:54 PM EDT
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" I wanted to be a herpetologist at one time"
^^^ You wanted to study Herpes?  |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:22:02 PM EDT
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Question: What's worse than finding a snake in your home?
Answer: Losing a snake in your home. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:25:03 PM EDT
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Quoted:
" I wanted to be a herpetologist at one time" ^^^ You wanted to study Herpes? LOL.... herpetology - the study of reptiles and amphibians I like snakes, what can I say? www.wf.net/~snake/rattlesn.htm |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:25:06 PM EDT
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Has anyone seen my pet snake?
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:26:52 PM EDT
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BLAM!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:29:52 PM EDT
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SHITTTTTTTTT
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:35:25 PM EDT
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I call BS on it being 'last week'...
Notice that characteristic shade of '90s' plastc on the computer equipment? Vent holes the size of a deck of cards. And that little Isuzu? TRG |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 2:50:30 PM EDT
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God bless the Northwest!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 3:00:05 PM EDT
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now you have an excuse to keep your feet on the desk and get a wireless keyboard....to say the least doubt you'll feel comfortable putting your legs back there with the wires lol
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Posted: 10/12/2004 3:02:53 PM EDT
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I said a couple of weeks ago. Quit watching so much CSI. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 3:20:46 PM EDT
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Last...couple... That still is some old equipment there. That cover plate says 'Property of Fred Flintstone' TRG |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:35:41 PM EDT
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"Quit watching so much CSI!" That's friggin' great!!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:39:09 PM EDT
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<---(runs to get Surefire to check under computer desk)
Nope, no snake here, but DDDAAAAAAAAYYYYYUUUUMMMMM!
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:40:51 PM EDT
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I bet if the fellow at the desk had a sidearm on him, they'd be breakin out the BBQ and not the snake-grabber-stick-thingy.
- BG |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:40:58 PM EDT
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That gives a whole new meaning to the term "Computer Bug"....
Can't blame Microsoft for THAT one! |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:41:47 PM EDT
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A big ass brown snake butt naked under your desk and you didn't dump your mag
!I would of shot his ass.  Samuel |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:42:53 PM EDT
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Can you imagine that thing getting inside of a box and being there when you opened up a machine for maintenance?
Wasn't a rattler, but I once got a scare while working on a dozer. Shoved my hand inside of the engine compartment and felt something move. Scared the shit out of me. Pulled off the cowling and there was a 5' blacksnake curled up on the radiator pan. Had to use a pair of brake spring pliers, duct tape, and two long sticks to get that fucker out of there. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:44:03 PM EDT
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If the snake had clothing on, you'd leave it alone? Well, come to think of it, i wouldn't shoot a snake with clothes on... I'd still be in "What the fek??" mode for a few minutes... Geez.... now that I think about it, you make perfect sense. A naked snake is rather worrisome, more so than a clothed one. - BG |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 4:44:36 PM EDT
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Well, it is the military after all. I was using a reel-to-reel tape recorder in the military as late as 1997. The really sad part is it wasn't as advanced as the one my Dad bought from the PX in 1969. |
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Posted: 10/12/2004 7:59:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/14/2004 1:10:27 AM EDT
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I would just like to add a few things to this, not to discredit you or call you out or anything, but.. I've been bitten by a western diamondback rattlesnake before. I can remember when I got bit, I didn't feel a thing, just a little poke of the fang. Shrugged it off, went on about my business of catching and bagging the snakes. Next morning I woke up and my arm was swollen to the point of where it was bigger than my leg. Figured it was time to tell someone, so I showed my mom, right as she was ready to leave for work.. (I was 15, catching rattlesnakes was sort of a summer job..they paid pretty good money where I lived in west Texas). By this point I had completely forgotten about the snake bite, and was just as dumbfounded as she was as to how my arm got all jacked like it was. To make a long story short, I never felt any pain, never lost function of my hand, although I heard later (after a week in ICU and lots and lots of narcotics) that my entire arm was basically dead, full necrosis, no pulse, no nothing. By the time I left the hospital, somehow it was completely restored, fully functional, no worse for the wear. Neither the doctors, nor anyone else can explain that one. Overall, I would say that someone was looking out for me somewhere. I've seen pictures and read accounts of people who have been bitten that have lost entire limbs due to the venom's work on their soft tissues. Kinda makes me wonder how come my experience was so different. Eh well, just thought you guys would like to know that little tidbit about me that most people aren't aware of. |
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Posted: 10/14/2004 1:17:02 AM EDT
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What about Jim-bo's? Got trashed night before grad...... wow. |
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