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snake souvinere survivor

2007 Reader Submission
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back in my senior year of high school one of my buddies daniel had run over a five foot western dimond back rattler in his car and decided to keep it to make a belt out of it, he through the "dead" (stunned) snake into the trunk and forgot about it for five days until his mom opened the trunk screamed and slammed it back

here is the problem, you have a large starved venemous and very very angery snake in your trunk, what do you do

well being good old boys as we were (are) we decided to gig it ( a gig is a small trident used for hunting frogs) well this idea was quickly dissmissed after we realized that the snakes strike was longer and quicker than ours.

next up, we'll shoot him, as we got ready to fire it dawned on me that "hey isn't the gas tank under the trunk and wouldn't shooting the gas tank have rather unpleasent reprocussions"

finally we got the idea to pin slash decapitate it with a shovel, after two near misses from the snake using a gig and a close call with a rifle and gas tank we finally killed the snake and kept ourselves and the car intact

it made a hell of a belt by the way

Submitted on 12/22/2007

Submitted by: scott
Reference: 2003 personal account

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Bruce said:
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Thanks for an entertaining story, Scott. Too bad you realized that shooting in the direction of the gas tank was a bad idea or this could have been a VERY entertaining DA. As it is, I'm surprised you didn't think to simply open the trunk and let the snake get out on its own.


Chip said:
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Scott, thanks for the amusing story!


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