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Tom Windsor

09-10-2006 16:37:34




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In 1959 I was in the employment of the United States Government as a trainee at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. After much abuse there we got a weekend pass and we rounded up a 1953 Mercury Convertable and headed to Mexico. We had a good time down there and spent all our money..late that night we headed back to Texas and about 1/2 way and out in the middle of no where, we ran out of gas. As we coasted to a stop, one of the guys in the front seat said "What is that out there on the road." My lord, the desert had cooled down and all the snakes in Mexico had cawled out on the hot pavement to keep warm for the night. Needless to say, beimg afraid of big snakes, little snakes, dead ones and alive ones, NOBODY slept that night or walked after Gasoline...

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PaulW_NJ

09-10-2006 20:39:41




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 Re: OT One More Snake story. in reply to Tom Windsor, 09-10-2006 16:37:34  
Someone from West Texas may care to add to this, but when I lived in Hobbs, New Mexico, I"d always hear about an annual "rattlesnake roundup" in Sweetwater, TX. Never actually went over to see it, but apparently folks would go out and bag snakes from their dens, bring them into town to be deposited in a swimming pool. Prizes were given for largest, most, etc. I hear they had a BBQ at night. Tastes like chicken they say . . . .

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Smith1000

09-10-2006 18:55:22




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 Re: OT One More Snake story. in reply to Tom Windsor, 09-10-2006 16:37:34  
The copperheads often lay out on the road like that around here. My mother-in-law was struck by a black snake in our living room last May. She was baby-sitting. It broke the skin and she had to get a tetnus shot. They don't have fangs, just a sharp little lip. I still am not sure where it got in. She did manage to catch it and throw it out on the front porch. Back home, we once had a horrible stench behind the fridge. We pulled it out and there was a copperhead cooked on the back of fridge. It had twisted all through the grid and just cooked.

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Hugh MacKay

09-10-2006 18:37:43




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 Re: OT One More Snake story. in reply to Tom Windsor, 09-10-2006 16:37:34  
Tom: I knew a farmer, last farm on the black top, where the road turned into a very rough gravel road. His sheep used to sleep on the black top. That is until the road dept upgraded and paved the gravel section. Then he had to build better fences.



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Marty Johns

09-10-2006 16:48:59




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 Re: OT One More Snake story. in reply to Tom Windsor, 09-10-2006 16:37:34  
and in 1976 they were the same way in YUMA AZ.



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noel from nm

09-10-2006 20:03:04




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 Re: OT One More Snake story. in reply to Marty Johns, 09-10-2006 16:48:59  
down in south texas the farmers usta measure there ol ladys frying pan and set the treads on there steel wheel tractors the same size so when they chopped a snake up it would fit in the frying pan. Times were hard then. just 2 cents worth heh heh



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