Posted on 08/23/2023 9:28:40 AM PDT by CFW
"I hope you didn't have a pet rattle snake at your front door because I killed him."
Matt with FedEx
"Sorry about the blood..."
LOL!
Good thing done but I think we toss around this Hero anoinment too easily.
“A guy in Minnesota was arrested for doing the same thing along a walking path.”
Timber rattlesnakes are not uncommon in southern Minnesota. I am not surprised he was arrested, though; as Minnesota is very lefty.
If your game warden finds out, he'll cite you for baiting.
My wife was bitten by a rattlesnake over the summer, while we were camping.
After two days of horrible, writhing agony, the snake died.
My practice here in Arizona is to kill rattlers close to the house or garage and let non-venomous snakes live. When I’m out hiking or hunting, if I see a rattlesnake before it has bitten me (which is every time so far, fortunately), then I’m in no danger and there’s no reason to kill the snake.
There are coral snakes around but I haven’t encountered one yet. I’m not that good at reptile identification, so my mnemonic for similarly marked snakes found on the property is “Red, yellow and black, grab a stick and give it a whack.” Out in the desert, same as for rattlers.
FedEx driver hailed a hero...
Three cheers for Matt!
Herp Herp Hurray!
(I like how he simply grabbed some tools that were handy, and eliminated the threat. Nobody messes with Can-Do Man.)
Probably would've thrown in some sort of environmental wacko "argument" as well.
“Apparently it’s in their DNA.”
Garden of Eden thing, I’d suppose.
And to think, here in Indiana if that had been a timber rattler he’d be in jail right now.
He is probably up the creek without a paddle. As soon as the animal rights people get word of what he did. No good deed goes unpunished.
Hissssss......................
My mother-in-law was the president of a medical technical college in the early 1990’s. One of her instructors came running in her office and said there is a five foot long rattlesnake in the student break area and its not leaving a student is going to get bit.
She told the faculty member go to the door and don’t let anyone out there. She went to her car and got her .38spl and had everyone clear out of that area, walked out and shot it in the head and disposed of the body. She then had to call her boss at the state cabinet level and inform them she had used her gun to dispatch the rattler.
She was concerned because it was against state and college policy to have a firearm on campus at that time. The cabinet member was an old codger and listened to her and said you killed it with one shot, that’s good shooting lady! Then said lets call the newspaper and it will be a good story and she said sir, what I did was against state and school policy that won’t go over well in the newspapers. He said yeah you are right, but as far as I am concerned it’s over and that was good shooting little lady! Nothing came of it.
He’ll probably be fired for disturbing a wild animal.
“The driver should be commended for his “toxic masculinity”.”
Yeah, but now the wildlife and fisheries will be on his case for killing a living, breathing animal!
He is in deep doo-doo.
Killed little timmy’s pet rattlesnake.
My lefty brother chastised me for killing a rattler by my front porch. I told him next time I would catch it, mail it to him and he could let it go.
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