Texas: A pit of 62 snakes killed

[Brutalis]

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j310/HogFather/snakey.jpg

Patterson Drilling, Abilene, TX yard--- doing some cleanup around the yard. The forklift driver picked up a "pit" (10 ft by 10 ft by 30 ft), set it back down and called the office. "I need some people out here with shotguns". Three men showed up. As many got away as were killed----62.

[midgetonadonkey]

That's a lot of snakes.

[ShoogarBear]

That reminds me:

http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/snakes_on_a_plane.jpg

That is a kick-ass poster. :smokin

[T Park]

disgusting, but not wrong :lol

[2Blonde]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww....I hate snakes. :madrun

[SpursWoman]

I like snakes.

[midgetonadonkey]

The ones that escaped will seek revenge.

[2Blonde]

I like snakes.
Why???

[SpursWoman]

They are cool.

[Carie]

Poor snakes :(

[jman3000]

In the far Southeast side my father is building a house and I was helping him clear up brush last weekend. Apparently there is a big snake boom down there too. The neighbors dog got bit by a copper head while we were working clearing the brush and it had to be taken to the vet... but rattlers are 10x worse.

[jman3000]

and that's pretty fucked up that 62 got away. Shit.

[2Blonde]

I had to study them in college and my professor made us handle all the dead ones over and over again so we could identify them for a test we had to take. I hated it. Cold blooded just like my ex. :lol

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

As long as they're not on a plane...

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Is there nothing three shotguns can't handle?

[Marklar MM]

Cold blooded just like my ex. :lol


Ouch. Thats cold. :)

[tlongII]

I would have started regulating with the forklift.

[SpursWoman]

I would have started regulating with the forklift.


That was my first tought....why didn't he just start running over the mofos? :lol

Unless he was afraid some would start climbing up the forklift.... :wow

[jman3000]

I doubt theyre just gonna sit there and get fucked up as a large noisy vehicle slowly crushes them.

[ShoogarBear]

We got mothafuckin snakes on the mothafucking forklift!!!!!!

That would be a very quick movie. Cool, but definitely short action.

[SpursWoman]

:lol

[ShoogarBear]

Shit, I just realized I'm going to be at a conference on August 18th.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

We got mothafuckin snakes on the mothafucking forklift!!!!!!

That would be a very quick movie. Cool, but definitely short action.
:lmao I can just picture Samuel L. Jackson saying those words! :lmao!

[CosmicCowboy]

Damn thats a lot of big snakes in one place. That couldn't be "new" news. Must have been in wintertime when they were semi-hibernating. They just couldn't have found enough to eat in a pipeyard to survive this time of year.

We had a ranch leased about 15 miles on the other side of the Nueces River (past Uvalde) when I was in high school...it had a "lost" hand dug shaft (probably prospectors from the 1800's) that I found wandering around out in the brush...it was dug on a rocky ridge and was about 6' wide and 40' deep. In the wintertime rattlesnakes apparently worked their way down through cracks and crevices in the rock to this well to hibernate...On warm winter days at high noon the snakes would come out into the well to "warm up"...it was very neat...I would walk in there and watch them a lot...I have seen as many as 40-50 rattlesnakes in there all piled up together...

I am no rattlesnake lover and have literally killed hundreds in my lifetime and have been struck on the pants leg twice...(didn't get through the boots) but it just didn't seem fair to shoot them down in there...

I would go to that ranch on school Christmas break and stay there by myself during the week from the time I was 14....Dad and his friends would come out on the weekends...

I took a "friend" with me my senior year in high school and showed him my "secret" place...and made him promise not to mess with the snakes...he apparently couldn't stand it...he snuck back and shot down into the shaft and killed a couple of them...I was furious...we basically broke up our "friendship" over it...

The snakes never came back while we had that place leased...

[ShoogarBear]

I took a "friend" with me my senior year in high school and showed him my "secret" place...and made him promise not to mess with the snakes...he apparently couldn't stand it...he snuck back and shot down into the shaft and killed a couple of them...I was furious...we basically broke up our "friendship" over it...


Let me get this straight:

So you had a male "friend" (quotes yours) who you used to take to your "secret place" to show him your "snakes"?

:lmao

Can't believe you of all people left yourself open for that.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[SpursWoman]

I was going to take a few minutes and come back to re-read that. I thought my eyes were fucked up....that was too easy.


:lol :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

I love you guys too....:lol...the closest we got to swapping spit was sharing a reefer.

I was actually going deep down memory lane and forgot that the rest of y'all have as filthy a mind as I do...:lol

[SPARKY]

They oughta make a movie about that...

Fullsnake Wellshaft

[CosmicCowboy]

I took a "friend" with me my senior year in high school and showed him my "secret" place...and made him promise not to mess with the snakes...he apparently couldn't stand it...he snuck back and shot down into the shaft and killed a couple of them...I was furious...we basically broke up our "friendship" over it...

:lmao

looking back that DID sound kind of suggestive...:lol...the quotes didn't help but it is just a state of mind...I finally figured out that 99.9% of high school "friends" were really aquaintances and if you are really lucky enough to get through life with 5 real friends you are truly blessed.

[Trainwreck2100]

Here is the poster shoog was talking about


http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/7149/snakesonaplanexlg4bm.jpg

[SPARKY]

:lmao

looking back that DID sound kind of suggestive...:lol...the quotes didn't help but it is just a state of mind...I finally figured out that 99.9% of high school "friends" were really aquaintances and if you are really lucky enough to get through life with 5 real friends you are truly blessed.

So showing the dude a snake in your "pit" was your way of testing his fidelity?

When does this story end with you humping a MILF?

[CosmicCowboy]

I have a bunch of rattlesnake stories from hanging out in south Texas...just not sure you guys would believe them.

[CosmicCowboy]

So showing the dude a snake in your "pit" was your way of testing his fidelity?

When does this story end with you humping a MILF?

Don't go there Matt. Lose the hate.

[2Blonde]

:lmao

[CosmicCowboy]

OK...what was the :lmao for?

[SPARKY]

What hate? I'm all about love. Well, not the 'out in the pasture with some dude and your snake pit' kind of love but I digress.

[CosmicCowboy]

You should really get out of Austin Matt if your fantasys are going there.

[Guru of Nothing]

Kill what you fear!

Got it.

[CosmicCowboy]

Kill what you fear!

Got it.

hehehe. Well there IS something deeply primal on the fear side when confronted by a big rattler. Those things are definitely a physical manifestation of evil...not only scary ugly but they stink like a sonofabitch.

[SpursWoman]

What hate? I'm all about love. Well, not the 'out in the pasture with some dude and your snake pit' kind of love but I digress.


:lol