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On Apr 8, 11:48 am, Jim Rojas wrote:
Your wife should be commended. These lizards help keep many pests in
check.

Just look at it this way. A common bat eats it's own weight each day in
insects. If we had no bats, Florida would be uninhabitable, and so would
the rest of the world.

I've put bat houses up in my back woods. It's amazing to watch them at
dusk.

There are more ants pound for pound, than people.
There are more termites pound for pound than people.
There are more rats than people.
There are more live fish in the sea than all the humans that ever lived
combined.

We are just temporary land barrons on this planet. We need to protect
these natural predators at all costs. These creatures did fine for the
past 250+ million years without our interference. They will be here long
after we are extinct as a species.

Jim Rojas

And then there are people that think they know more than millions of
years of evolution taught the planet......

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Well, you guys can love 'em.
I'll swat 'em.

Eisboch

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:43:51 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:26:31 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:


Go ahead and laugh. Had a rock crab clamp on to my thumb, cutting it.
Almost fainted. Had to sit down with my head below my knees. I think
they have some kind of venom. That's what I think.

Can't recall where I read/saw it, but somewhere there was a guy having a
sit-down, when a boa slithered out of the plumbing. Honestly, I'm not
all that "girlie" when it comes to critters, but if that happened to me,
I don't think I'd ever get regular again.

There used to be a fellow in Putnam everybody called Snake Man - he
had a collection of pythons and boas - a couple of them on the larger
side and one was a spectacular example of Burmese Python - 18 foot
long, 300+ pounds.

Well it got loose. And, as it happened, Snake Man lived across the
street from St. Mary's School. Locked the school down until they
could find it - lot's of little ones at St. Mary's.

Yep - you guessed it. They found the snake near the rear entrance of
the school that went out to the playground. Nobody ever figured out
how the snake managed to cross the street without somebody spotting
it.

One of the funnnier things I've ever seen was at Bein Hoa AFB in
Vietnam. One of the fighter groups there had a Burmese Python in
captivity - guys used to visit and pull the snake out of it's cage,
drap it around their shoulders and take a picture. Proceeds went to
the fighter squadron bar fund.

One of our guys paid the money and did the snake/shoulders thing until
it bit him and started wrapping itself around. I'll give the kid
credit - he didn't panic and we got the snake off of him in short
order, but they stopped the picture deal immediately.

The snake ended up at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raliegh, NC.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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The snake ended up at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raliegh, NC.


Stuffed, I hope.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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The snake ended up at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raliegh, NC.


Stuffed, I hope.

Eisboch



More fun if alive. Eats rug rats.

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:47:51 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Apr 8, 7:27 am, Steve wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:15:57 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:
Someone sent these pictures to Mrs.E. They were taken during some current
construction work at Orlando Inter' Airport.
Yikes.
http://www.eisboch.com/airport1.jpg
If that thing is still alive, the guy standing behind it is in danger
even with the mouth taped. That huge tail can whip around and break
both his legs.

Steve

Crikey!


The rattlesnakes bother me a whole lot more than the 'gater.

Eisboch




You should really check snopes before you post this stuff


You didn't think taht photo was taken in orlando, FL, did you?

On Apr 8, 12:33*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:47:51 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Apr 8, 7:27 am, Steve wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:15:57 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:
Someone sent these pictures to Mrs.E. They were taken during some current
construction work at Orlando Inter' Airport.

Yikes.

http://www.eisboch.com/airport1.jpg

If that thing is still alive, the guy standing behind it is in danger
even with the mouth taped. That huge tail can whip around and break
both his legs.

Steve

Crikey!

The rattlesnakes bother me a whole lot more than the 'gater.

Eisboch

You should really check snopes before you post this stuff- Hide quoted text -

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Yep! I've trekked canoed camped etc. all over the Florida swamps. All
I can say is that's a hell of a photoshop job!

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:21:23 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:15:25 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:47:51 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


The rattlesnakes bother me a whole lot more than the 'gater.

Eisboch
You bet! One rattlesnake is bad enough.

Yeah, I'll worry about them when they start splattering on my car.
Until then love bugs are the enemy.
And rock crabs that bite my thumb.

Tough guys, all. :)

Go ahead and laugh. Had a rock crab clamp on to my thumb, cutting it.
Almost fainted. Had to sit down with my head below my knees.
I think they have some kind of venom. That's what I think.

--Vic

The last time I saw a girl have a crab grab onto the meaty web in between
her thumb and forefinger, I just whipped out my trusty Russell belt knife
and wedged the claw open. She was grateful.

I don't think so either. It was probably taken in the Florida
everglades. Though where Orlando airport is located this may be possible.

Jim Rojas




HK wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:47:51 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

"Tim" wrote in message
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On Apr 8, 7:27 am, Steve wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:15:57 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:
Someone sent these pictures to Mrs.E. They were taken during some
current
construction work at Orlando Inter' Airport.
Yikes.
http://www.eisboch.com/airport1.jpg
If that thing is still alive, the guy standing behind it is in danger
even with the mouth taped. That huge tail can whip around and break
both his legs.

Steve

Crikey!


The rattlesnakes bother me a whole lot more than the 'gater.

Eisboch




You should really check snopes before you post this stuff


You didn't think taht photo was taken in orlando, FL, did you?

Don White wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:21:23 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:15:25 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:47:51 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


The rattlesnakes bother me a whole lot more than the 'gater.

Eisboch
You bet! One rattlesnake is bad enough.
Yeah, I'll worry about them when they start splattering on my car.
Until then love bugs are the enemy.
And rock crabs that bite my thumb.

Tough guys, all. :)
Go ahead and laugh. Had a rock crab clamp on to my thumb, cutting it.
Almost fainted. Had to sit down with my head below my knees.
I think they have some kind of venom. That's what I think.

--Vic

The last time I saw a girl have a crab grab onto the meaty web in between
her thumb and forefinger, I just whipped out my trusty Russell belt knife
and wedged the claw open. She was grateful.



A girl with crabs?

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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snip..
One of the funnnier things I've ever seen was at Bein Hoa AFB in
Vietnam. One of the fighter groups there had a Burmese Python in
captivity - guys used to visit and pull the snake out of it's cage,
drap it around their shoulders and take a picture. Proceeds went to
the fighter squadron bar fund.

One of our guys paid the money and did the snake/shoulders thing until
it bit him and started wrapping itself around. I'll give the kid
credit - he didn't panic and we got the snake off of him in short
order, but they stopped the picture deal immediately.

The snake ended up at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raliegh, NC.


Are you sure your guy didn't bite the snake first?