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:usaflag: Only in Texas!!
- Thread starter Cupajo
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TexasCharley
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Years ago, on the ranch, some guys came out & asked us if we had any caves on the place. It's in limestone country, so of course we had caves. One of the guys asked me to get in the pickup with him--in the bed--& guide 'em to the caves. I started to climb over the tailgate when I saw about a half dozen towsacks in the bed--& something inside the sacks was moving. I said "What's in the sacks?" He poked one sack with his foot & there must have been a dozen diamondbacks in it. I saddled my horse & guided 'em from horseback. I think I was born with better sense than to get into a pickup bed with a half-dozen towsacks full of rattlers.
The Burnham Bros sporting goods store in Marble Falls, Texas, has never been burgled. The reason? Every day at closing they release a half-dozen rattlers into the store. The next morning, after they find & re-cage the snakes, they open the store. Sometimes the store is kinda late getting open. There are signs on all doors & windows, in English & Spanish, warning about the snakes loose in the store.
The Burnham Bros sporting goods store in Marble Falls, Texas, has never been burgled. The reason? Every day at closing they release a half-dozen rattlers into the store. The next morning, after they find & re-cage the snakes, they open the store. Sometimes the store is kinda late getting open. There are signs on all doors & windows, in English & Spanish, warning about the snakes loose in the store.
Snakes are near the top of the "fear" list!!
Those fellows in the pit have "snake proof chaps, boots and gloves on, but one moments inattention would quickly turn into disaster!
I have lived in snake country my entire life so far and have no fear of them, but I do have a healthy respect for them!
My deceased father-in-law would have had nightmares from seeing the above photos!
Thanks for your comments Mikie,
CJ
Those fellows in the pit have "snake proof chaps, boots and gloves on, but one moments inattention would quickly turn into disaster!
I have lived in snake country my entire life so far and have no fear of them, but I do have a healthy respect for them!
My deceased father-in-law would have had nightmares from seeing the above photos!
Thanks for your comments Mikie,
CJ
Hi Charley,
Once in a while someone finds a rattler in a store (usually a grocery store) where they have found a way in while searching for mice.
A news story a few years back told of a lady bitten in a grocery when she reached for something on a high shelf where a rattler lay in wait.
The store in Marble Falls is the only one where I ever heard of snakes being used to deter crime!!
Sounds like a great idea to me!!
A lady I met a few years ago told of a family member that took her car in for her mechanic to check out a persistent, annoying buzzing sound and he found a rattler coiled under the drivers seat. (luckily no one was hurt!)
One of my earliest memories is of my Mom, Dad and an Uncle quickly exiting our old Model A Ford, because one of the adults had seen a snake!
It turned out to be a harmless variety, but one never took snakes for granted!
Mom was astounded that I remembered the event as I was a very young child at the time, but some memories are more easily stored than others, usually those with terror or other emotion jamming them home deep in the memory.
Mom once found a King snake in a kitchen cabinet when we lived close to Matagorda Bay.
It was treated gently and set free as it was a sure deterrent for keeping rattlers out of the house!
Sometimes I have to wonder if I have a Guardian Angel, because I used to run barefooted all over the snake infested countryside day and night!
Thanks for your reply Friend,
CJ
Once in a while someone finds a rattler in a store (usually a grocery store) where they have found a way in while searching for mice.
A news story a few years back told of a lady bitten in a grocery when she reached for something on a high shelf where a rattler lay in wait.
The store in Marble Falls is the only one where I ever heard of snakes being used to deter crime!!
Sounds like a great idea to me!!
A lady I met a few years ago told of a family member that took her car in for her mechanic to check out a persistent, annoying buzzing sound and he found a rattler coiled under the drivers seat. (luckily no one was hurt!)
One of my earliest memories is of my Mom, Dad and an Uncle quickly exiting our old Model A Ford, because one of the adults had seen a snake!
It turned out to be a harmless variety, but one never took snakes for granted!
Mom was astounded that I remembered the event as I was a very young child at the time, but some memories are more easily stored than others, usually those with terror or other emotion jamming them home deep in the memory.
Mom once found a King snake in a kitchen cabinet when we lived close to Matagorda Bay.
It was treated gently and set free as it was a sure deterrent for keeping rattlers out of the house!
Sometimes I have to wonder if I have a Guardian Angel, because I used to run barefooted all over the snake infested countryside day and night!
Thanks for your reply Friend,
CJ