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RE: Post the dumbest thing you’ve ever done

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Posted by: mchambers at Sun Jun 4 11:07:17 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mchambers ]  
   

Well.....leaving the Big Bend region of Texas and in route to Alpine Texas from Study Butte > it was just at morning crepuscular hour and we had seen multiple " pancaked " snakes on paved shoulder close to the 33 or 23 mile marker leading up in elevation and meaning it was down right COOL temp wise so I thought! I pined with boot a what to be seemed the cross of prairie rattler and either mojave or atrox and put it in a plastic gallon jar which had been my mainstay of preferred containers of the last 2 decades. Upon trying to put the screw on lid on the jar the rattlesnake jumps out of the jar and I believed her/him had tagged me on my palm area! NOT ! When jumping the snake hit the lid and I had made holes in lid with drill from inside out to as not leaving any protrusions on inside lid and there was a plastic protrusion on top of lid that nabbed me on the palm. Upon driving again toward Alpine I awaited any signs of envenomation not knowing at the time it wasn't the snake fang that got me ! LOL !
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