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Old 13-10-2007, 03:17 PM   #31
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In cat language, he was saying, wakey wakey hand off snakey.
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Some great feedback here, I might be a wuss but atleast I'm in good company ;)
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Old 13-10-2007, 04:45 PM   #32
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by the way... a word of warning, aparently a baby snake is more poisenous then a fully grown one, i remember some-one telling me that (might have been in a drunken conversation but i cant remember : )
I've heard that young snakes aren't as wise as older ones and hence have a go at anything, so they can be more dangerous. Not sure of they have more poison but may bite more

A few years back we were building a wall at the boss's house and we came across a nest of baby brown snakes in the soil (prob about 5 or 6) rearing up and striking at the shovel
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Old 13-10-2007, 04:56 PM   #33
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I saw "snake in my bed" and "blood everywhere" and was wondering what you got up to!

I reckon snakes are rad, don't like finding them in the wild though.
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Old 13-10-2007, 04:59 PM   #34
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Apparently John Wayne Bobbit woke one day to find a snake had gone through his bed there was blood in his bed...
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Old 13-10-2007, 05:05 PM   #35
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That'll teach u for movin up north scotty
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Old 13-10-2007, 05:49 PM   #36
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There is one kind of snake I don't mind in my bed...but...ekkk...slithery snakes and there skin...Yuk. Put me down in the "they give me the creeps" catergory too!
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Old 13-10-2007, 05:52 PM   #37
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Jesus Scott... I had shivers reading that first post and kept looking around me the whole time.

We've had skinks here before, outside though. But these ones had the exact head of a snake, flattish and the same diameter. But the body was like stumy, only 20cm long and they had four legs. The dogs go berko whe they are around and they chase them away off the property.

Unfortunately, we do get alot of snakes in Brisbane. Next door have had a 7 - 8 feet carpet snake in their bedroom... they leave their windows open and the snake came in and crawled over them. The old guy says that he kept dreaming that something wet was on him during the night, then woke up at 3am to take a and found the snake on the floor beside the bed. Where it is now, I dont wanna know.

And I've seen a crow in our front yard with a snake of about 40 - 50cm in it's mouth. We get crows all the time now and I even feed the crows now !!!

Also, a guy at work, lives out at Albany creek, 4 year old kid playing outside in the back yard comes in crying saying "a snake scratched" him... yep you guessed it he stepped on a snake whilst playing and it bit him. So you never know.

But let me tell you something, I'll be checking my bed from now on - cheers for that !!!

From, another 100kg snake-scared wuss.
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Old 13-10-2007, 06:12 PM   #38
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That'll teach u for movin up north scotty
I guess so, if only I could've bought that sweet, sweet bitumen with me lol.

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a great read GTp.. i am still scared from reaching in the bushes as a kid to get the cricket ball and was an inch away from patting a blue tongue lizard...
Unfortunately for mother nature, if it has scales and doesn't swim I can do without thanks...
Legs I can live with, no legs = just plain freaky. I still recall "skinking" where me and the mates would go catching skinks, bluey's, shingle backs etc and one day picking up this bluey that turned out to be 5ft long with a red belly...... and no legs. FFS, I think I know where my phobia came from!

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scared of snakes... comon man grow some balls!
No way, last thing I need is a snake biting them ;)

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Thank god for cats...
I guess so, atleast the little mole killed it.

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There is only one thing worse then a snake (skink) in your bed. Getting home and finding a snake skin in your bedroom.
Ok, you win.

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Old 13-10-2007, 06:22 PM   #39
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Hummmm whats wrong with snakes?

How could you not love these faces?








They also clean up these horrible furry creatures





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Old 13-10-2007, 06:25 PM   #40
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Next door have had a 7 - 8 feet carpet snake in their bedroom...
How do I do a smiley with really big eyes and poop coming out of it?

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Hummmm whats wrong with snakes?
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Old 13-10-2007, 07:19 PM   #41
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We used to live on a small property just out of town, over the far side of the paddock was a blackberry bush, in summer our 3 cats would go over there and get baby snakes (Red belly blacks!!!) and bring them to the front door as presents.

Don't know how many times i had to whip out the of shovel, i don't mind pet snakes, but i wasn't going to mess around with a snake like that.
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Old 13-10-2007, 07:24 PM   #42
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Red belly blacks are very gentle venomous snake and I know lots of people who have them as pets and generally handle them like a python.
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Old 13-10-2007, 07:28 PM   #43
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Red belly blacks are very gentle venomous snake and I know lots of people who have them as pets and generally handle them like a python.
Your probably right, but to an uneducated person like myself, it wasn't exactly what i wanted on my front door and after the cats had been playing with them for a while, they wern't in the best of moods
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Old 13-10-2007, 08:02 PM   #44
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Thanks for the pictures of those snakes.... another sleepless night. Cheers !
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Old 13-10-2007, 09:04 PM   #45
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My wife complains of a snake every time I get into bed...LMAO
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Old 13-10-2007, 09:09 PM   #46
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you guys are wusses, i went camping when i was 13 or 14 and woke up with a meter long tiger snake under my pillow, me and my cousin managed to beat it to death with some pvc pipe.

I've got a photo somewhere.
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Old 13-10-2007, 09:26 PM   #47
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haha!!! as soon as i read the title.. "snake in my bed" i knew i would be pis$ing myself by the end of the story!! haha classic!
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Old 13-10-2007, 10:01 PM   #48
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puss should be getting an extra ration of whiskas for while , you don`t know were that little bugger may have ended up:ticking:.................they scare me too, i was out in the sticks doin fence line to fence line slashing for the council years ago something tangled the blade, i parked the tractor out of the long growth (6 ft high) to fix a problem went to hop back in the tractor and sorta stumbled back on the slope bit and stepped on a snake i took a step up into the tractor and the snake took a bite of my blundstone heel never realised i could run that fast
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Old 13-10-2007, 10:22 PM   #49
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I guess so, if only I could've bought that sweet, sweet bitumen with me lol.

btw - haven't got a set of gold simmons lying around do you?
Actually, you're in luck - 1 set for AU / BA, pm me if you're interested.
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Actually, you're in luck - 1 set for AU / BA, pm me if you're interested.
I've never met anyone with more set's of wheels on hand lol.
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Old 13-10-2007, 10:39 PM   #51
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Guy's , there's "at least" 2 things I'm "Allergic to" = Pain & Snakebite

Specially when it to me ...........
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Old 13-10-2007, 11:47 PM   #52
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Maybe it was just a "warning snake"

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Bugger that. Waking up to find blood everywhere would have freaked me right out.

Ive seen smaller legless lizards floating around but we generally dont have problems with snakes around here (Just outside Perth on 6 acres of bush which then backs onto bush for as far as you wanna go. Brilliant for bikes and stuff). The dogs, cat and chooks seem to keep them away.

One time when we were up camping in Moore river there was a fun incident. Bunch of little kids were running around and yelling and having a merry old time. "Come look what weve found! Its a really big worm or something!" Yeah right-o. So off me and dad trek to have a look. "RIGHT YOU LOT. BACK AWAY NOW AND BUGGER OFF" few calls of whats goin on? "Young blokes have found a dugite." This dugite would have been maybe 3.5 foot long and slithering through the grass on top of a sloping retaining wall. Chased it and guided it down the wall where it got a bloody bashing with a shovell.

Then as you do you go and scare the foreign blokes with a big snake haha. They dont need to know its dead do they?
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"crikey"

i love snakes.... over came my fear when i had to feed a taipan....then catch it - it was me or him and all i had was a pillow case and a broom (and a snake handler)


if you see a snake just call the police, theyll send someone to collect it...dont shoot ffs.... fair enough spiders theres no use for them but snakes keep rat populations down and toads
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ahhhhh ya wimp, though i would be worried if i woke up with blood all through my bed!

but still... scared of snakes... comon man grow some balls!

by the way... a word of warning, aparently a baby snake is more poisenous then a fully grown one, i remember some-one telling me that (might have been in a drunken conversation but i cant remember : )
With some species thats true. With most Australian types its correct.
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Nothing wrong with em. My Missy is a cute lil girl

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Old 15-10-2007, 09:05 PM   #57
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Thanks for the pictures of those snakes.... another sleepless night. Cheers !
i rekon ey?! my feet are up on my chair agian, and i had a fly land on the back of my leg.. i've never jumped so high before in my life .....

come on guys, snakes are horrid ... i'm glad im in suburbia
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come on guys, snakes are horrid ... i'm glad im in suburbia
You have more to worry about than snakes then....
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if you see a snake just call the police, theyll send someone to collect it...dont shoot ffs.... fair enough spiders theres no use for them but snakes keep rat populations down and toads
Now I live in town I would call the Police , but when I was a kid I pulled up so my cousin could open a gate , he felt a "wriggle" on his Jeans leg (lucky they were loose Jeans) and there was a "5ft Brown hanging there" . After that we'd open the door & jump as far as we could .

Sort of changes your attitude towards them .

GTP , glad it was you & NOT Me . The Mrs would be mad as hell digging the "Lead" out of the bed .

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PS , Spiders eat flies , the Mrs has "George" in the Loungeroom , and no-one is allowed to swat him . He lives behind a picture .
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