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Re: [RC] Big Snake - Lynn Kinsky


On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Bruce Weary DC wrote:


Hi D'Arcy--

You may have a point there, and you are clearly more compassionate toward rattlesnakes than I am. However, there is no shortage of them here, in fact there are trails I won't ride or hike in the depth of summer due to their numbers. Because they are deadly, to humans and horses alike, I think our first reaction in coming across one is one of fight or flight. I'm betting the old man in the picture's first thought wasn't: "Boy, the herpetologists are going to have a heyday with this one!" Probably, he was thinking, "Where in the hell is my shovel!!!!!!!!" The snake was heard as saying, "I may not be the baddest dude in the whole desert, but I'm in the top two. And my Daddy is gettin' old." :> Dr Q


I'm pretty laisez-faire about snakes but I got an appreciation of what an angry rattler can do when I was driving a car following my RV down a track as a week-long camp-out was clearing camp. A big snake, obviously upset, reared up out of the grass like a snake charmers snake, and struck at the *top* of the RV's rear truck tire!






Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
ranch:  http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/


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