There's a snake in the grass. What do you do?

[Deja Q]

What do you do?

[Orsino]

1. Impeach it. n/t

[LSK]

2. grab it by the tail to piss it off

[Random_Australian]

3. Australia, so we have huge, angry, venomous snakes.

Brown snake over 6 feet: GET THE F*CKING SNAKE CONTROL PEOPLE. THAT'S F*CKING HUGE, AND THESE THINGS ARE DAMN POISONOUS!

Brown snake under 6 feet; any other snake: Gumboots + shovel + thick pants + gloves = 2 halves of a snake. (Exceptions below)

Red-Bellied Black snake, far from home: They kill the browns, so they're alright I guess...

Western Taipan: I've never seen one, but since they are the world's most dangerous snake, like f*ck am I going near it.

Carpet Python: If it stays outside, it can live.

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Note: You can't boast worse snakes than Australia, we have about 17 of the worlds 20 most poisonous snakes. The browns get bigger than King Cobras too...

Nasty, huh?

[LSK]

5. do these killers find their way into your home or yards?

Or are they more in the country/nature?

[Random_Australian]

9. Just moved in from the country, you see, (yes to the city)

and there was a big brown (territorial bastard, too) who bit one of our neighbor's cows... it died so quick it's horn stuck into the ground!

More to answer your question, I doubt I'd find a snake here in the city. In the cities edges though, you're bound to get some snakes occasionally. In the summer in the country, you get *rather* edgy, and don't walk in long grass. But mostly, no they don't find their way into homes, partly because most homes are rather southward and in not so dry areas where there aren't snakes...

[TreasonousBastard]

22. Man, you got real nasty stuff...

down there. Surprised any of you live to tell about it.

Snakes, spiders, octopi, jellyfish, giant sharks... Must give the tourist board a hell of a time.

My personal favorite, though, is the Drop Bear. As if you don't have enough dangerous critters to scare the tourists, you gotta make more up.

[entanglement]

25. ...

:wow:

[matcom]

4. THROW IT ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE!

;)

[ghostsofgiants]

7. THERE'S NOT A GOT-DAMN OTHER OPTION!

[Chovexani]

21. I'm tired of these snakes!

:D

[LaurenG]

6. I almost picked stroke it but

I don't know if I could handle a strange snake appropriately. What if it bit me!

So I would leave it alone. I did however used to play with snakes as a tot. My dad said I pulled a bunch of baby snakes out of my pocket and put them in his hand. He was freaked because they were diamond back babies. I thought they were worms?:shrug: (I lived in the desert and they were in the sandbox).

[ohiosmith]

8. Nothing. That's how I protect my stash.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Leave it alone so it will eat RATS!

:D

[twenty2strings]

11. Don't let it be elected president.n/t

[KamaAina]

12. Call Animal Quarantine.

There aren't supposed to be any snakes in Hawai'i. I guess St. Patrick drove them out while on vacation from Ireland or something. :-) Nonetheless, they do turn up from time to time, because ignorant mainlanders just had to have them for pets. Of particular concern is the brown tree snake which has conquered Guam, decimating songbird populations and scaring the bejeezus out of Guamanians by coming up through their toilets (really!).

[Jade Fox]

17. They haven't found any brown tree snakes in Hawaii.....

have they? I hate reading about what happened on Guam. The balance of nature is a delicate thing!

[KamaAina]

18. No, not yet...

(knock on koa wood) but lots of cargo, especially military, comes in here from Guam all the time, and one never knows wht might be slithering in a dark recess of a container... :scared:

[Droopy]

13. Run over it with the lawn mower

[Deja Q]

14. Well, that spares the need for the food processor, yes...

:D

[Sugar Smack]

15. Scotch it, not kill it.

;-)

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. leave it alone

it is one of natures critters and it has a right to its share of the grass (as long as it is not someone elses stash)

[flvegan]

19. Let it be.

First, I'd whisper words sweet wisdom, though.

Still a snake in the grass is really just still a snake.

[SofaKingLiberal]

20. Feed it a cat.

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[AlienGirl]

23. Wave hello to it

Snakes don't have ears, so saying hi wouldn't work...

Tucker

[Kali]

24. edge it over towards one of the damn gopher holes.

where my fig tree USED to be.:mad: :nuke:

[sarge43]

26. Give it a red squirrel to eat n/t

[bmbmd]

27. Might fall on a piece of glass.

nt

[LynneSin]

28. Snakes in the Grass? Not a goddamn mofo thing we can do about it