I have known SO MANY wiseacres in Texas doing the same thing. I say this because I was one of them. (Mind you, even the biggest diamondback rattlesnake is a kitten compared to even a tiger snake, and most of my countrymen can't tell the difference between a coral snake and a scarlet kingsnake, but we still have plenty of opportunities with dead dangerous critters out here. The big difference between Texas and Australia, though, is that Texas is just full of critters that just want to maim you instead of kill you. Given a choice between a tiger snake up my pant leg and a banded water snake or Texas rat snake, I'll take a tiger snake any day. Tiger snakes may be venomous, but speaking from experience, a Texas rat snake will make you wish it was venomous just so the pain will stop.)
The old “tie the roadkill king brown to the inside door handle and put in on the floor pan and wait for owner to open door and snake flings out and frightens seven shades of shit from them” stunt never gets old 😎
I have known SO MANY wiseacres in Texas doing the same thing. I say this because I was one of them. (Mind you, even the biggest diamondback rattlesnake is a kitten compared to even a tiger snake, and most of my countrymen can't tell the difference between a coral snake and a scarlet kingsnake, but we still have plenty of opportunities with dead dangerous critters out here. The big difference between Texas and Australia, though, is that Texas is just full of critters that just want to maim you instead of kill you. Given a choice between a tiger snake up my pant leg and a banded water snake or Texas rat snake, I'll take a tiger snake any day. Tiger snakes may be venomous, but speaking from experience, a Texas rat snake will make you wish it was venomous just so the pain will stop.)
I'm back from holiday, this comment was a WILD RIDE. Thank you so much for writing it.
"Texas is just full of critters that just want to maim you instead of kill you" is so, so, so funny to me. And terrible!
I grew up around snakes, they don't scare me, but I also leave them the HELL alone. It's a good working arrangement.
That’s a perfectly sane response here, too. I LIKE the snakes in my back yard, but I always give them room, mostly because I want them to stay.
I once read that snakes learn the routines of the people they live near, and do what they can to avoid them.
They're like very polite housemates who don't pay rent. Love them.
I DID NOT see that twist coming ahahahaha. Amazing.
The old “tie the roadkill king brown to the inside door handle and put in on the floor pan and wait for owner to open door and snake flings out and frightens seven shades of shit from them” stunt never gets old 😎
This story is so much better from one of the co-conspirator’s mouths. Thank you.