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emysbreeder
at Sun Apr 17 11:08:23 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by emysbreeder ]
When I used to give talks at Schools about "The snakes of Florida" I added to the list of kinds of bites, like dry bite, feeding,ect a "Post mordom bite" and explained the danger of a trashing dead Rattlesnake (pit vipers) or even, and the most likely severed head showned off as a trophy and often given to kids. There was a death from this in Jax Fl. more than once. Once I was asked to assist a taxadermis to mount for a Museum a series of Rattlesnakes heads to show the sequence of a bite from begining to end. (mouth opening and fang arrangment.) The EDB heads were in a freezer over a year and came from a Rattlesnake roundup where they were milked before being killed. Even with rubber gloves my finger tips were mumb by the end of the day! Think about it, someone dies from a DEAD snake or theres that Dittmars account of young boys bring him LIVE Gaboom vipers by draging them by the tail, over their shoulder unharmed (the kids) to his camp! Or the kid that stold two Gaboons from the National Zoo, and carried them home in a plastic bag on a city buss unharmed! There is something to Karma that is freeky. VM
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RE: What a Litigious Society we Live in - emysbreeder, Sun Apr 17 11:08:23 2011