Snake vs 410 *beware PETA*
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knucklehead
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SoArk - I figured you'd just aim for his ankles and take the whole herd out at once. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
John - welcome! Which plant are you in, if you are associated with one and care to make it public? I have work partners which have been operators in both VT and ME Yankee, and several aquaintences at the NE ISO from various plants. Too bad electric utility workers sometimes have to be careful about revealing their identity - I notice everyone is still "plugged in", and a lot of the Earth Muffins love their Honda Hybrids - whazzat it runs on....electricity, you say?
Probably could save snakes, cockroaches, leeches, mosquitos, and all those other precious higher order life forms who deserve to rule the Earth more than we do if we promoted building small, uniform, pre-approved nuke designs. Talk about what was put here for our use! Talk about useless fears! Talk about clean, safe, abundant power with low environmental impact! History will show that the environazis actually drove this country towards higher polluting energy sources and worse environmental problems because of the Medieval superstitious fear of nuclear power.
Snakes! I said it back there, and now again - I'm still on topic!
Happy Memorial Day, everyone - even if it is a holiday for honoring our fellow deceased filthy humans who used icky guns to promote and advance the cause of liberty for the Most Dangerous Animal on the Planet!
I thank God (not Gaia) for their sacrifice!
<font color="red"> Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of danger, nights of waking."
~Sir Walter Scott </font>
John - welcome! Which plant are you in, if you are associated with one and care to make it public? I have work partners which have been operators in both VT and ME Yankee, and several aquaintences at the NE ISO from various plants. Too bad electric utility workers sometimes have to be careful about revealing their identity - I notice everyone is still "plugged in", and a lot of the Earth Muffins love their Honda Hybrids - whazzat it runs on....electricity, you say?
Probably could save snakes, cockroaches, leeches, mosquitos, and all those other precious higher order life forms who deserve to rule the Earth more than we do if we promoted building small, uniform, pre-approved nuke designs. Talk about what was put here for our use! Talk about useless fears! Talk about clean, safe, abundant power with low environmental impact! History will show that the environazis actually drove this country towards higher polluting energy sources and worse environmental problems because of the Medieval superstitious fear of nuclear power.
Snakes! I said it back there, and now again - I'm still on topic!
Happy Memorial Day, everyone - even if it is a holiday for honoring our fellow deceased filthy humans who used icky guns to promote and advance the cause of liberty for the Most Dangerous Animal on the Planet!
I thank God (not Gaia) for their sacrifice!
<font color="red"> Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of danger, nights of waking."
~Sir Walter Scott </font>
It just occurred to me that nobody had mentioned FLA Gators. This stuns me that they allow those things to roam the state killing kids and animals. Not too many people get killed by Mountain Lions in PA anymore.
As for the law. It's only illegal if you get caught. I'm not saying I take great pleasure in breaking the law, but if a gator comes on my land (not likely in PA), I'm double killing it. Then I'm digging a hole and shutting my mouth.
We do get the occasional brown bear,... now that is a truely harmelss animal. This must be what winnei the pooh was writtain on. They are cute and fuzzy, so I'm not in the killing mood when I see one.
There, that will work as a rule, ugly and scaley=kill
Cute and fuzzy=hug /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Wait a minute, grizzleys are cute and fuzzy... I'll have to work on my formula.
As for the law. It's only illegal if you get caught. I'm not saying I take great pleasure in breaking the law, but if a gator comes on my land (not likely in PA), I'm double killing it. Then I'm digging a hole and shutting my mouth.
We do get the occasional brown bear,... now that is a truely harmelss animal. This must be what winnei the pooh was writtain on. They are cute and fuzzy, so I'm not in the killing mood when I see one.
There, that will work as a rule, ugly and scaley=kill
Cute and fuzzy=hug /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Wait a minute, grizzleys are cute and fuzzy... I'll have to work on my formula.
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Sounds like the guy found the rattlesnake on a path at a public boat launch. Took the snake off the path, took it down to the docks to show his kids, got a shovel to scoop it up to release it(how did he get it to the docks), the snake turns on him and he cuts off its head and rattle with the shovel. Says he was defending himself.
Puh-leeezz. My guess is if he wouldn't have cut off the tail, it wouldn't have looked like trophy taking to the jury and he probably would have been OK. Or if he had killed it on the path, that would have been OK. But he picked up a rattlesnake and carried it to a parking lot(kind of like playing with fire), then tried to "release" it with a shovel. YIKES! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif He released it all right... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Look, if you see a rattlesnake in your yard that's your business. I helped kill one back in the 70s in a neighbor's yard. Lots of kids playing and all of a sudden there's a rattlesnake in the middle of the lawn. Got no problems with that. Go out to public lands and kill any animal without proper permits, licenses, etc... cut off its tail and what do you expect? I'd expect a ticket. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Sounds like the guy found the rattlesnake on a path at a public boat launch. Took the snake off the path, took it down to the docks to show his kids, got a shovel to scoop it up to release it(how did he get it to the docks), the snake turns on him and he cuts off its head and rattle with the shovel. Says he was defending himself.
Puh-leeezz. My guess is if he wouldn't have cut off the tail, it wouldn't have looked like trophy taking to the jury and he probably would have been OK. Or if he had killed it on the path, that would have been OK. But he picked up a rattlesnake and carried it to a parking lot(kind of like playing with fire), then tried to "release" it with a shovel. YIKES! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif He released it all right... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Look, if you see a rattlesnake in your yard that's your business. I helped kill one back in the 70s in a neighbor's yard. Lots of kids playing and all of a sudden there's a rattlesnake in the middle of the lawn. Got no problems with that. Go out to public lands and kill any animal without proper permits, licenses, etc... cut off its tail and what do you expect? I'd expect a ticket. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
wroughtn_harv
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What a courageous woman!
There she was armed only with a cell phone and yet she was willing to call the authorities about a grown man brave enough to kill a snake.
A man with a shovel can be a force to be reckoned with. A man with a shovel who has the whatevers to kill a vicious rattlesnake, now that's a man. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Actually this story is the start of a good lesson about losing your head over a piece of tail, er, uh, maybe just something like that.
I'm glad she was there. The kids got a great life lesson.
There she was armed only with a cell phone and yet she was willing to call the authorities about a grown man brave enough to kill a snake.
A man with a shovel can be a force to be reckoned with. A man with a shovel who has the whatevers to kill a vicious rattlesnake, now that's a man. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Actually this story is the start of a good lesson about losing your head over a piece of tail, er, uh, maybe just something like that.
I'm glad she was there. The kids got a great life lesson.
JohninCT
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Hey Mark
I worked at the CT Yankee plant for about 10 years and now I work at the Millstone plant (have a bunch of folks from ME Yankee with us at Millstone now). I agree with you. It's too bad that more people don't understand the real risks of using nuclear power (versus perceived risks) our kids might not be dying defending some other country's oil fields. But, that's a disucussion a little beyond this thread...
Oh, Did I mention that I don't like snakes? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
JohninCT
I worked at the CT Yankee plant for about 10 years and now I work at the Millstone plant (have a bunch of folks from ME Yankee with us at Millstone now). I agree with you. It's too bad that more people don't understand the real risks of using nuclear power (versus perceived risks) our kids might not be dying defending some other country's oil fields. But, that's a disucussion a little beyond this thread...
Oh, Did I mention that I don't like snakes? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
JohninCT
cstocks
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Hi Mark,
I've been busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest. What with work, my new house finally being built, burning up the road between here and Ark. and squeezing in some tractor time my plate has been pretty full lately. I haven't posted much in the last few weeks but I still manage to drop in several times a week just to add to my knowledge base and to get a few good laughs.
If I recollect correctly you kinda disappeared for a couple of months yourself. Glad to see you back posting again. I always enjoy your humor and viewpoints. Take care!
I've been busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest. What with work, my new house finally being built, burning up the road between here and Ark. and squeezing in some tractor time my plate has been pretty full lately. I haven't posted much in the last few weeks but I still manage to drop in several times a week just to add to my knowledge base and to get a few good laughs.
If I recollect correctly you kinda disappeared for a couple of months yourself. Glad to see you back posting again. I always enjoy your humor and viewpoints. Take care!
Boone
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Can I squish that tick, Dearie, or shall we call the reloction team?"
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I just relocated a tick that was working it's way up my leg into the woodstove.
All these replies to this thread about protecting children got me thinking. I remember being told some things as a child but never being protected this closely:
Stay out of the box traps they are for wild dogs that might have rabies.
Stay out of any caverns or caves. They might still be boobytrapped from WW2.
Don't touch any ammo brass or bomb looking things.
Don't catch any snakes or spiders.
Just a few of the things I was told growing up on an airbase on Okinawa. Four years running wild and never heard of any trouble with snakes getting any kids, and there were snakes big enough to stop traffic, if they got onto the road.
Now a days I rarely see a snake and if I do it is usually trying to get away as fast as it can, so I let it go. Hopefully it will eat some mice and make babies so they can eat mice.
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I just relocated a tick that was working it's way up my leg into the woodstove.
All these replies to this thread about protecting children got me thinking. I remember being told some things as a child but never being protected this closely:
Stay out of the box traps they are for wild dogs that might have rabies.
Stay out of any caverns or caves. They might still be boobytrapped from WW2.
Don't touch any ammo brass or bomb looking things.
Don't catch any snakes or spiders.
Just a few of the things I was told growing up on an airbase on Okinawa. Four years running wild and never heard of any trouble with snakes getting any kids, and there were snakes big enough to stop traffic, if they got onto the road.
Now a days I rarely see a snake and if I do it is usually trying to get away as fast as it can, so I let it go. Hopefully it will eat some mice and make babies so they can eat mice.
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<font color="blue"> All these replies to this thread about protecting children got me thinking. I remember being told some things as a child but never being protected this closely:
Stay out of the box traps they are for wild dogs that might have rabies.
Stay out of any caverns or caves. They might still be boobytrapped from WW2.
Don't touch any ammo brass or bomb looking things.
Don't catch any snakes or spiders.
Just a few of the things I was told growing up on an airbase on Okinawa. </font>
Change caverns and caves to drainage pipes and those are just a few of the things I was told growing up in Indiana. My dad was a demolitions officer in WWII (he still liked to play with the gunpowder /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )
Stay out of the box traps they are for wild dogs that might have rabies.
Stay out of any caverns or caves. They might still be boobytrapped from WW2.
Don't touch any ammo brass or bomb looking things.
Don't catch any snakes or spiders.
Just a few of the things I was told growing up on an airbase on Okinawa. </font>
Change caverns and caves to drainage pipes and those are just a few of the things I was told growing up in Indiana. My dad was a demolitions officer in WWII (he still liked to play with the gunpowder /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )
knucklehead
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W-Harv (can I call ya Dubya-Harv?): <font color="blue">er, uh, maybe just something like that.</font> I was thinking that, too! Dawg!
John - I kinda ranted there /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif, but relevant. I get wound up about the absurdity of those who would risk life n' limb (usually someone else's) for animals, but neglect the human race. Ain't we glad we basically only got insects to worry about up here? And environmentalists? Sorry, I repeated myself.
Chris - thanks for noticing. Truth is I was spending way too much time here; then I started doing the things I shoulda started earlier last year, then wood cutting, then....you know. I was kinda in rehab there for a while, with respect to TBN. Trying to get out of the dog house.....got the back of the house re-sided, 5 windows in, dishwasher installed, new front windows ordered, this, that, other thing, etc., etc., etc. Now I'm a good boy again...
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT! WHO? - WHO?WHO?WHO?WHO? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Dan - Still running the woodstove? We almost started one back up last week. Today has been the first sunny day in two weeks. Nice weather to work, if you can work with wet ground. We got one tick off the dog and two off the cat - ticks are really multiplying in this State - I blame it on the lack of predation of mammals and over protection of the environment necessary for their growth....no matter what the facts are. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Speaking of senseless ideas - I'd love to go on a safari and shoot every Hyena I see. Just because of their looks. My wife thinks it's funny.
John - I kinda ranted there /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif, but relevant. I get wound up about the absurdity of those who would risk life n' limb (usually someone else's) for animals, but neglect the human race. Ain't we glad we basically only got insects to worry about up here? And environmentalists? Sorry, I repeated myself.
Chris - thanks for noticing. Truth is I was spending way too much time here; then I started doing the things I shoulda started earlier last year, then wood cutting, then....you know. I was kinda in rehab there for a while, with respect to TBN. Trying to get out of the dog house.....got the back of the house re-sided, 5 windows in, dishwasher installed, new front windows ordered, this, that, other thing, etc., etc., etc. Now I'm a good boy again...
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT! WHO? - WHO?WHO?WHO?WHO? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Dan - Still running the woodstove? We almost started one back up last week. Today has been the first sunny day in two weeks. Nice weather to work, if you can work with wet ground. We got one tick off the dog and two off the cat - ticks are really multiplying in this State - I blame it on the lack of predation of mammals and over protection of the environment necessary for their growth....no matter what the facts are. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Speaking of senseless ideas - I'd love to go on a safari and shoot every Hyena I see. Just because of their looks. My wife thinks it's funny.