Snakes

[Hoeman00]

My brother is on our local rescue dive team and the owner of a gravel pit lost some parts and wanted them to do some practice and see if they could find them.
I dive too so I went along and both of us went in first doing half moon searches on rope.
The water was less than 20' deep and 50 or so degrees w/ visibility around 6" and 4' tall under water weeds.
Our search patterns over lapped and his buddies where controlling our pattern.
So the let us run into each other, the first time I grabbed his fin thinking it was the part (he thought a snapping turtle got him) the next time I went past in front of him and and he couldn't see me but he thought a coral snake was after him when it attacked his mask and octupus (I had yellow w/ red rescue line on me and it caught him in the face).
Needless to say when he told his buddies what all had happened underwater everyone had a good laugh.
We had never heard of a coral snake up this far north and I don't know if they can go underwater.

 

[Taylortractornut]

You think thats bad my olde brothers friend gave me a 2 inch diameter 3 foot long Ball python. Im not too crazy about snakes but i got it anyway. I gave her to a friend of my brothers and they didnt latch the cage here. Now ive got slick slithering around out here. If mom finds it they ll be hell to pay lol shes afraid of snakes. I remember my first girlfriends parents one day they asked me to come bury a barn they had fall down. I took my old backhoe and when i was using the loader to push in the hay rack a King snake fell on my arm. I abondoned ship they had a good laugh.

 

[Hoeman00]

I'm putting in a 2500' drive for a customer w/ my hoe so the dump driver walked over to the pond (out in a pasture field) and didn't spend much time looking.
Later he said the banks are FULL of snakes, as soon as he walked up lots of them hit the water. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Now he stays in the truck.