you charmer you... 8^)
Posted on 04/05/2013 7:39:52 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: No wriggle room: Kentucky snake preacher has five reptiles confiscated after illegally attempting to transport them through Tennessee
A snake-handling Kentucky preacher has been forced to leave five venomous serpents in Tennessee after he was caught trying to move them through the state.
Jamie Coots pleaded guilty to illegally having poisonous snakes that were confiscated after a traffic stop in Knox County, Tennessee, on Jan. 31.
Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of transporting the snakes and wildlife officials agreed to give back the boxes Coots was using to carry the snakes from Alabama to his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro, Kentucky.
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True.
My feeder guy has Gaboons, Rattlers and Cobras.
I’ve seen them but have the good sense to not touch them.
He’s licensed.
I’m just a fascinated spectator.
The two are in conflict over the souls of the town, and everything points to fire and brimstone preacher as the bad guy...until the very end when you find out he was right all along, and the kinder, gentler preacher is the corrupt one.
“A snake-handling Kentucky preacher”
I assume he was traveling from or to Kentucky with them.
Can’t do that, especially since the psychotic Lacey Act went into effect.
Yup, it was.
My other favorite is the ep titled “Drive”.
That was a great show until it jumped the shark.
Until the surrounding states voted to reject the idiotic ‘snake ban’, I was in peril of committing a felony just for taking one of my Boas across a state line.
When you consider that the only two good herp vets near me are in PA and VA, that could have been disastrous.
Still, no hots are allowed at MD or VA reptile expos.
PA allows them.
They are known in our parts as ‘Pentecostals’.
Certainly as the show was winding down, the cast and crew had a lot of lighter moments, and the season nine episode with Burt Reynolds is truly a classic.
The last episode (two parter) was pretty hokey, but the final scene was, IMHO, one of the best closing scenes of any show. Ever.
“Holy Rollers” here.
I just couldn’t get used to him.
Funniest ep, ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Chung%27s_From_Outer_Space
Yup.
I was one of those nerds who had the Ouroboros ‘countdown’ computer start up screen and everything.
:)
you charmer you... 8^)
They aren't brave. They are frigging insane. I had ferrets, which are the same family. They are just terminally insane. They missed out on the fear gene that the rest of us mammals got.
Did I mention they are crazy?
/johnny
They might be insane or maybe not. It’s none of our business. In Principle.
And they are crazy too, but I'm not for making laws against humans being crazy.
/johnny
Art I, Section 3.
That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any minister against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.
LOL..hardly.
It’s just that whenever somebody here says the word ‘snake’ or ‘salamander’, I get pinged.
[I must remind people of slimy, slithery things]
;D
and here i figure you for a true snake charmer...
What was his FR handle? I can think of a couple of candidates!
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