Close Call?

[lerxstcat]

Lucky escape there Jack! It probably wouldn't kill you but that would have hurt like hell and being in a critical area it could have been pretty bad.

I hope you're bombing the shit out of that shed with insecticide, where there's one there are many and don't count on cold to kill 'em. They just get inactive when it's cold and active again when it warms up.

[Rsmacker]

Clucking Bell!!
I HATE spiders, and am glad we only have harmless ones here in the UK, though I still freak when I see them.
I couldn't live where there are big hairy ones (oo-er missus), nor little harmless-looking ones that bite nutsacks!! Fuck that, I'm staying here

[Rsmacker]

My shed would be very warm if I thought there was one of them in it. Like "on fire"

[beaner]

Only thing worse than spiders are more spiders. When I lived in Florida I had a friend who was a professional fisherman. He said brown recluse bites are fairly common on the fishing boats. What all the fishermen would do is wash the wound out with white Kerosene and that would prevent the spreading necrosis. Never had to try it myself, but will always remember it just in case. I'll do that and antibiotics and every homemade remedy I can find if I ever get bit.

[Jack The Riffer]

The neighbor across the street from me got bit by a recluse a few years ago. he had to have most of his calf remove to stop the infection from spreading.

We got Black Widows, Brown Recluses, Copperhead Snakes and Water Moccasins. Beleive me, I tread lightly wherever I go.

[Soap]

We got Black Widows, Brown Recluses, Copperhead Snakes and Water Moccasins. Beleive me, I tread lightly wherever I go.

Copperhead's...now theres a mean aggressive snake thats known to chase and come after you. Those are some wicked, nasty and very mean and venomus snakes. Copperheads are snakes I have yet to see those animal television people hunt. Its hard to get close to one, they come after you and its the individual trying to run away, not the copperhead. One better be darn good with the snake stick, because if one decides not to run and misses the copperhead using the snake stick, your out of time at that point to move and avoid getting bit. Those are snakes not to be messed with, mean little things that don't play around. I speak with experience.

[6_string_master]

Man you are lucky. I hate spiders with a passion. One day I was out next to this pond in my backyard, and I felt a weight on my head. Turns out it was a fat spider of some sort with a giant abdomen, and it had got caught on my hair. I freaked out and brushed it off, thinking it was gone. A couple ours later in my house I found fresh spider bites in my right hand armpit. The sucker must have fell off my head and landed on my shoulder. Then it probably crawled into my shirt. I also hate earwigs, their just nasty. Snakes can be very deadly, especially the ones you mentioned, but they don't scare that much compared to spiders. The thought of something with eight legs, many eyes, and fangs crawling on me just freaks me out.

[RacerX]

(oo-er missus)

[OnlineStageGear]

Damn, that was a close one, but on a better note, you now have another excuse not to do the lawn.

[lerxstcat]

Copperhead's...now theres a mean aggressive snake thats known to chase and come after you. Those are some wicked, nasty and very mean and venomus snakes. Copperheads are snakes I have yet to see those animal television people hunt. Its hard to get close to one, they come after you and its the individual trying to run away, not the copperhead. One better be darn good with the snake stick, because if one decides not to run and misses the copperhead using the snake stick, your out of time at that point to move and avoid getting bit. Those are snakes not to be messed with, mean little things that don't play around. I speak with experience.

That pretty much applies to water moccasins as well. They are fucking evil.

Jack, we have all those and alligators too! People take a qucik look before they jump into their swimming pools around here!

[St.James]

Speaking of water moccasins... When I was a kid, about 9 or 10, a friend and I would go to this creek behind our apartments and catch mudpuppies. One day we found one that was longer than the rest we'd found. When my friend poked at it with a stick, that fuck rared up and started hissing.

Needless to say we figured out pretty quickly it wasn't a monster mudpuppy, but big ass snake and got the hell out of there quick.

[VulfgangPfuck]

Here in NJ we have Water Mocs, Copperheads, and Brown Timber Rattlers.

Had a close encounter with a Timber rattler a couple years ago when we were walking on a nature trail in a Wolf perserve. Good thing we were actually on a critter hunt as we went along. The wife hears a soft rustling of brush, and stops to look. There at her feet, literally a foot away (maybe one more step) lay a 5 ft coiled up timber rattler stalking a chipmunk.
Had she taken one more step, that would've been it. Even though Timber rattle venom isn't the most potent in the rattler family, it would've still done some damage. The ranger that owned the perserve was driving down the trail, and unfortunately ran him over, and killed him. He didn't see him. The snake was beautiful though. I don't fear critters of any kind, except for Scorpions, and brown Recluses. Luckily we don't have any of those here in NJ!

I had a semi-close encounter with a water moc as well only a year or 2 ago. Same deal...on a critter hunt on a nature trail. This one was along side a lake. Saw him curled up in a pile of cleared brush on the berm of the lake shore. He looked at us, and "tasted" the air for a few seconds, and split into the water.