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Cell Phone Call Saves Girls Surrounded By Rattlesnakes
Local 6 ^ | 7-08-4 | The Associated Press

Posted on 07/08/2004 12:29:36 PM PDT by Kennesaw

Cell Phone Call Saves Girls Surrounded By Rattlesnakes Rattlesnake Trapper Finds 25 To 30 Snakes In Area

POSTED: 1:41 pm EDT July 8, 2004 UPDATED: 2:19 pm EDT July 8, 2004

LIVINGSTON, Montana -- Two Colorado girls vacationing in Montana used a cell phone to call for help after finding themselves on a hillside infested with dozens of rattlesnakes.

Izzy Effler, 13, and Morgan Beadwell, 12, climbed a hill in Livingston to try to get cell phone reception.

However, while climbing, Izzy said a rattlesnake struck at her.

Morgan also reportedly stepped on a snake.

The girls then discovered that they were surrounded by six rattlers and used the phone to call for help, according to the report.

Brian Effler and his nephew eventually rescued the girls after shooting two of the snakes.

A rattlesnake trapper said he saw 25 to 30 snakes in the area.

The girls were not injured.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: cellphones; snakes; yikes
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1 posted on 07/08/2004 12:29:37 PM PDT by Kennesaw
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To: Kennesaw

Gave me the willies!


2 posted on 07/08/2004 12:31:03 PM PDT by Laura Earl (I have no tagline. But I am the better half of a $2/day monthly donor FReeper family.)
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To: Kennesaw

The cell phone took them there and the cell phone saved them. The irony.


3 posted on 07/08/2004 12:31:31 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Laura Earl

I think they'd arrest someone who shot rattlers in NY.


4 posted on 07/08/2004 12:31:47 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kennesaw

Cell phones save people. Guns kill people.

Any questions?


5 posted on 07/08/2004 12:32:18 PM PDT by newgeezer (Sarcasm content: 100.00%)
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To: Kennesaw

I thought John/John were somewhere else...


6 posted on 07/08/2004 12:33:54 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (I approve this message: character and integrity matter. Bush/Cheney '04)
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To: 1Old Pro

Probably. But the only good snake is a dead snake!


7 posted on 07/08/2004 12:34:42 PM PDT by Laura Earl (I have no tagline. But I am the better half of a $2/day monthly donor FReeper family.)
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To: Kennesaw

On vacation and you have to have a cell phone stuck to your ear give me a break.next time leave the kids home.


8 posted on 07/08/2004 12:35:50 PM PDT by bikerman
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To: Kennesaw

Those rattlers were lucky my kids didn't find 'em. :)


9 posted on 07/08/2004 12:36:34 PM PDT by Free Trapper (Because we ate the green mammals first!)
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To: Kennesaw

*shiver*


10 posted on 07/08/2004 12:37:48 PM PDT by rightazrain ("John, go to your room!" Tear-A-sa screeched.)
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To: Kennesaw

Stumbled upon a Daschle rally.


11 posted on 07/08/2004 12:38:02 PM PDT by Gulf War One
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To: Conspiracy Guy

ping


12 posted on 07/08/2004 12:38:45 PM PDT by Laura Earl (I have no tagline. But I am the better half of a $2/day monthly donor FReeper family.)
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To: Kennesaw
I've done a lot of back-country camping. I've walked right past a rattle snake before. It didn't even rattle it's tail. It did it's best impersonation of a stick and let me walk on by. Not 10 minutes before, I was going to sit down and doctor my feet (preventing blisters). Right before I sat down on a log I happened to look down and see a small rattler right between my boots. It also did it's best impersonation of a stick.

Rattle snakes are generally docile unless you step on or surprise one. The previous summer I ran across another one and it was very upset with me. It did rattle and tried to strike. I ended up having to shoot it.
13 posted on 07/08/2004 12:39:04 PM PDT by appalachian_dweller (The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.)
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To: Gulf War One
Stumbled upon a Daschle rally.

I didn't catch where they said these were midget rattle snakes;-D

14 posted on 07/08/2004 12:40:45 PM PDT by MortMan (Complacency is an enemy sniper)
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To: Laura Earl

Stop that. Snakes are good. Rats are bad.


15 posted on 07/08/2004 12:43:17 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I have no tagline. But I am the worse half of a $2/day monthly donor FReeper family.)
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To: 1Old Pro
I think they'd arrest someone who shot rattlers in NY.

If not, it would be open season on the majority of your state's Congressional delegation.

16 posted on 07/08/2004 12:43:20 PM PDT by Freebird Forever
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To: Freebird Forever

Rattle-snake jihad.


17 posted on 07/08/2004 12:45:59 PM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: Kennesaw

Night of July 4 I fell out of bed trying to escape while dreaming that I woke up with someone taking a basket of snakes and dumping them on the foot of my bed while I was sleeping. I didn't wait but tried to get out of bed ASAP. Scared the bejesus out of me thinking about the crawly creatures. (For those freepers thinking, I hadn't imbibed one iota either.)


18 posted on 07/08/2004 12:46:48 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Kennesaw

Being a Kansas boy, it's hard to believe there are areas of the country that are unsafe because they're infested rattlesnakes! A few years ago a physician friend of mind talked me out of hiking the "wilderness" around Yreka, CA. Looked good to me on the map. No towns or roads for miles, etc. But he said he and his buddies growing up around there avoided those hills like the plague because the land is literally crawling with rattlers this time of year, BRRRRRRRR! I can deal with an occasional snake. But the idea of walking out into a field and finding it's got one snake in every square yard, does give 'ya the shivers.


19 posted on 07/08/2004 12:49:40 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

friend of MINE, lol


20 posted on 07/08/2004 12:50:36 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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