Serpent made me late this morn.

Post by **Sober Duck** » July 27th, 2005, 1:44 pm

He just didn't want to get out of my way.

Post by **Dave The Dov** » July 27th, 2005, 3:23 pm

Look's like it's either a coachwhip or a cottonmouth. Then again maybe it was looking for the garden of Eden.
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Post by **Sober Duck** » July 27th, 2005, 3:39 pm

Oh, it's just an old Black Snake but it will still bite the hell out of you.

Post by **Dave The Dov** » July 27th, 2005, 3:42 pm

Did it offer up an apple to you????
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Post by **Sober Duck** » July 27th, 2005, 5:50 pm

No but it did ask me to carry him up the road aways. And he promised not to bite me. However I have delt with snakes before and bite is just what they do.

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Post by **Arcadia** » July 27th, 2005, 10:26 pm

no serpents here but a lot of lagartijas in summer. Sometimes yararás in the islands.
I can see a triangular head: is it venenosa?

Post by **Sober Duck** » July 27th, 2005, 11:03 pm

No, not poisonous but they will still strike.

Post by **jimboloco** » July 29th, 2005, 6:42 pm

why is the snake so tortuous? is it because it was tensed and trying to wriggle away?

Post by **Sober Duck** » July 29th, 2005, 8:54 pm

Well Jim, the ripples in the snake were quite puzzling. I never saw one do that before. It was early in the morning and the snake was sunning in the road. I spent ten minutes with it while it lay motionless. I had to chase it off the road so I could go to work and the snake straightened right out as he slithered away. It was a good six feet.

Post by **jimboloco** » July 29th, 2005, 9:23 pm

It's good that you cared about the snake.

Once I had a date with a woman from the Bahamas and we drove out into the country and saw this snake in the road and she started yelling "snake, kill it, it's the Devil!"

That's when I knew that her cultural reality was slightly impaired.
She told me that she went to church every day growing up.

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