Well that was a shock

[Grumpy]

Out in the shop working on a bike, pulling the rear tire and final drive. I usually sit on a roll around stool. I was working away and felt some thing on my leg, first thought it was the little dog, but a minute later looked down and a little over 3 foot pine snake was wrapping around my leg, scared the $%^%$ out of me. I think I need to change my underwear now.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Damn  I KNOW I would need to change mine.

[_Sheffjs_]

Aww Bill he was just lonely.

[Pappy!]

Those are good ones to keep around. Hope you didn't dispose of him!

[R J]

Several years ago, I was cruising on the motor just kind of watching traffic.   It was close to evening traffic starting.

I caught something out off the corner of my eye and it landed in my crotch area.  Baby rattlesnake.

I had my leather gloves on and just kind of backhanded him.   He had raised his head up and I smacked him.    Didn't realize what it was till then.   The KZ1000 had a chain and he became entangled in the chain.    He went zip right out of my lap, and gone.    I pulled into the emergency lane and he was caught in the chain and the chain guard.     His rattlers were gone now, and he was pissed.  Next revolution of the chain and he was a goner.      Now that was a underwear changer.

Had inspection the next morning, guess where the motor was.      Home in the driveway.     It was a tad bit bloody.

[Tundra]

Did you knock the bike off the jack when you scrambled? I'd have fell backwards off the stool ass over tea kettle and knocked over everything in sight trying to get away.
 He was probably just trying to get a leg up and see the dragon. I've seen a critters in places they don't belong lately. Must be all the rain

[Grumpy]

I did not hurt him, I think I scared him as much as he scared me. Just shooed him out of the shop, I guess all this rain is bringing them out of the normal places they live, I have been seeing a lot of turtles and other stuff in the yard that are not normally around.

[John Schmidt]

If that had been Rita, there would now be a new 100 meter dash record.    She once spotted a 6" long green garter snake scooting across our pool while we were sitting on the patio. Before I could do anything, she was out of her chair and in the house with the door locked. She didn't find it nearly as funny as I did, in her eyes it was an Anaconda.

[Grumpy]

My wife is the same way, couple months ago I caught another pine snake and was carrying it across the street to let it go in the woods, when I walked by her, she saw it and lit out for the house. She does not like snakes.

[FloridaValkRyder]

.... I'd have fell backwards off the stool ass over tea kettle and knocked over everything in sight trying to get away.

...What Doug said !!  I think it was Richard Pryor who said "Snakes make you stupid and run into stuff"  

[John Schmidt]

We get a few black rat snakes around here. I just use a hoe on them and bury them under the big pine tree out back on the golf course. It upsets the "hoe" however.   

Did kill a cotton mouth last year. Saw it going across my neighbor's yard and watched it while grabbing a shovel out of the garage. A young hawk was diving at it so that kept its attention while I approached, swung the shovel like a bat and nearly took its head off. Got it out in the street and completed the job, then back to the pine tree. Must be a dozen or more snakes buried out there by now.

[Grumpy]

Non poisonous I don't bother them, we have quite a few black snakes here. They keep the other critters down.  Poisonous, rattlers moccasins etc, 12 gauge or 45 cal does a nice job on them. I have killed about 10 rattlesnakes here in the last 15 years or so.  At least in my area, no one gets too excited about gun fire in the day time.

[IamGCW]

Any chance you were whistling snake charmer music?   

Gil

[Pappy!]

For about 3 years that I know of I had a 4' Black snake (possibly a small Indigo) hanging out around my fence in the back. Would see him a few times a year.
Caught a guy on a golf cart heading for him to run him over when he was crossing the road heading back to my fence one time and yelled at him before he did. We watched the snake head straight back to the fence. On the way he went directly between my feet and never knew. To him I was just another obstacle.

Neighbor came over a few weeks ago to tell me he had a Moccasin in his shed. He was tearing the floor out of the shed and saw it. Now, he's an old Florida boy and had done decades of Orange grove work around lakes and ponds but it seems 90% of what folks think are poisonous are not.
Didn't believe him.
He has three pistols at his house that I know of and not a single bullet for any of them. 
On the other hand I have a Taurus Judge I keep handy, with 3" .410 or .45 long Colt. Popped a couple of #8s in it and walked over expecting to see a common water snake which I would have caught and relocated.
He was correct and I was wrong. First one I have seen in the neighborhood.
That snake saw both of us, immediately became aggressive and was up and over the 2x8s coming straight for us.
Holy S---! that thing is loud inside a tin shed..... Vaporized the head though and not much damage to the flooring.

[Grumpy]

Moccasins have to be one of the most aggressive snakes around. They will head right for you, rather run up on a rattler than one of them.

[wct69]

Bill,  I'll make sure and bring a you a new 3 pack when I come get the bike.
You sounded like you needed a nap the last time I spoke to you yesterday.....I bet there was no chance of that after your little encounter.
I wonder how much my shop rate just went up?

[crow]

We have a bathroom off our bedroom that oppens to the outside.  The door is right next to the toilet,  quite nice to  look outside at the pasture while sitting.  Anyway,  the wife was cutting through the bathroom to go outside and a small rat snake, 8" maybe, that had been on the ledge above the door fell, brushed her head and landed on her chest.  Big Fun!, for a bit.   Weeeeeee.     Good thing we've Xanax. 

[_Sheffjs_]

Ok my story now - about 10years ago I was cutting the lawn with a new 2 stroke lawn boy, as I was cutting I noticed something out of the corner of my eye to the right. It was moving at Valk speed and before I knew it this 3'+ snake slithered right into the blade. The noise was unreal! killed the motor! blood all over my legs and feet. (shorts on) One less snake in the world.

Honey where is the garden hose?

Dang he was a fat feller!

[Grumpy]

Bill,  I'll make sure and bring a you a new 3 pack when I come get the bike.
You sounded like you needed a nap the last time I spoke to you yesterday.....I bet there was no chance of that after your little encounter.
I wonder how much my shop rate just went up?

I know what it was, that tire with the snake on it, must have thought it was his mama. 

[The emperor has no clothes]

We have a bathroom off our bedroom that oppens to the outside.  The door is right next to the toilet,  quite nice to  look outside at the pasture while sitting.  Anyway,  the wife was cutting through the bathroom to go outside and a small rat snake, 8" maybe, that had been on the ledge above the door fell, brushed her head and landed on her chest.  Big Fun!, for a bit.   Weeeeeee.     Good thing we've Xanax. 

You didn't put that sucker up there did you ? 

[FloridaValkRyder]

Ok my story now - about 10years ago I was cutting the lawn with a new 2 stroke lawn boy, as I was cutting I noticed something out of the corner of my eye to the right. It was moving at Valk speed and before I knew it this 3'+ snake slithered right into the blade. The noise was unreal! killed the motor! blood all over my legs and feet. (shorts on) One less snake in the world.

Honey where is the garden hose?

Dang he was a fat feller!

So you can't tell the difference in a snake and a garden hose Jerry....Geeze..

[wct69]

Bill,  I'll make sure and bring a you a new 3 pack when I come get the bike.
You sounded like you needed a nap the last time I spoke to you yesterday.....I bet there was no chance of that after your little encounter.
I wonder how much my shop rate just went up?

I know what it was, that tire with the snake on it, must have thought it was his mama. 

.....well, it is one good lookin' tire.