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Have you ever encountered a poisonous snake?

Posted - May 12, 2020
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  • 44603
    I encountered a copperhead along side a golf cart path. I picked it up with a golf club and tossed it in the wooded area so nobody would step on it. It was quite docile.
      May 13, 2020 8:59 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    A few Rattlesnakes when i was a kid.
      May 12, 2020 8:24 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Do you mean like tony blair ,England's ex labour prime minester ?
    He is the most oviparous venomous parasite I've ever encounter...
      May 12, 2020 9:08 PM MDT
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  • 1893
    I grew up around them seen many, killed a few less than many.  Believe that is a Copperhead you pictured, here is what was around my childhood neighborhood; Diamondback Rattlers

    Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake | National Geographic This post was edited by Archerchef at May 14, 2020 11:42 AM MDT
      May 14, 2020 7:56 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    It is a copperhead. Quite pretty.
      May 14, 2020 11:43 AM MDT
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  • 1893

    The anti venom for a Copperhead is thru the roof, Rattlers are cheaper.  A guy in NJ got bit at a rest stop, $17,000 later before hospitalization costs he was OK. Read that in the NY Times online a year or two back.  At most rattler anti venom will be around 2K

      May 15, 2020 1:51 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    Nice to know. I'll try not to get bitten. I'm not sure if medicare covers it. We only have two species of rattlers here: Massasauga and a small pocket of timber rattlers near lake Erie.
      May 15, 2020 2:00 PM MDT
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  • 1893
    Timber Rattlers are small and on the endangered species list I believe.  Now you may get bitten if you hold your Pinky out.  They are small and their mouths are even smaller
      May 27, 2020 8:11 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    You got it backwards. Massasaugas are quite a bit smaller than timbers.
      May 27, 2020 1:26 PM MDT
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  • 16763
    I live in Australia, what do you think?
    Black (both plain and red-bellied), eastern brown, king brown and tiger snakes. The last mentioned used to haunt the neighbour's shed - he kept chicken feed there and mice would try to steal it. The snakes were there to feed on the mice.
      May 27, 2020 9:57 AM MDT
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  • 44603
    Dang. We have snakes here but you have to look for them. Most are quite harmless.
      May 27, 2020 1:28 PM MDT
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