a snake popped out of the air conditioner!

[ElFenix]

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/snake-in-suvs-ac-vent-was-no-fraternal-700386.html?somebody

 

[Drako]

"Well, somebody crapped in my pants"

LOL, what?

 

[Azraele]

Why do people insist on killing what they don't understand?

 

[Rubycon]

Why do people insist on killing what they don't understand?

Sadly it's modern human nature to destroy now and research later.

Oh and vent on SUV ≠ an air conditioner!

Now if it were fouled within a serpentine belt and destroyed the compressor clutch rendering the A/C function inoperable we may be on to something.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Snakes in an Air Conditioner starring Samuel L. Jackson opens in October.

 

[joesmoke]

thats not an air conditioner, thats my pants baby! yaaa!

 

[zinfamous]

it was obviously chasing that mouse.

 

[zinfamous]

fucking cunts. that was a harmless corn snake

how the frick do you mistake any kind of rat snake for a copperhead??

 

[destrekor]

fucking cunts. that was a harmless corn snake

how the frick do you mistake any kind of rat snake for a copperhead??

Most people cannot differentiate between many snakes. Only the most common dangerous slither-ers can be named by some people.

Ask someone what type of lizard any random lizard is. Show them an iguana or generic gecko, they'll get it right. They'll quickly confuse anything else.

Most snakes, to many people who don't see them regularly, appear the same save for different patterns.

Coming out with the name "copperhead" is kind of weird - to me that seems like a snake you either know by name and looks, or don't know at all - so referring to a snake as a copperhead it either looks a lot like it, or they merely know the name copperhead but nothing about it.

And many folks are rather ignorant of snakes, and think many if not most are dangerous.

I guess to some, the different head shapes of a venomous snake and constrictors aren't easy to distinguish.
Any of the pit vipers have a pretty ominous head shape, while most constrictors are just - imho, tame looking. Some venomous snakes mess with that, but pit vipers have that characteristic "I fuck things up" head shape.

 

[zinfamous]

I guess to some, the different head shapes of a venomous snake and constrictors aren't easy to distinguish.
Any of the pit vipers have a pretty ominous head shape, while most constrictors are just - imho, tame looking. Some venomous snakes mess with that, but pit vipers have that characteristic "I fuck things up" head shape.

yeah, exactly, It's just way too obvious. But i did grow up with snakes. :\

 

[Acanthus]

Triangular head = it dies.

 

[grrl]

it was obviously chasing that mouse.

exactly

 

[Tsavo]

Sadly it's modern human nature to destroy now and research later.

Oh and vent on SUV ≠ an air conditioner!

Now if it were fouled within a serpentine belt and destroyed the compressor clutch rendering the A/C function inoperable we may be on to something.

I see what you did there.

 

[destrekor]

yeah, exactly, It's just way too obvious. But i did grow up with snakes. :\

That's the thing - some people just don't really see a snake their whole lives, at least not outside of a pet store.

In NW Ohio, at least in the city, I've never seen a snake. Same in Columbus, OH.
I have seen a few non-venomous snakes before in various more secluded areas.

If I were like other people, who I swear make it their objective to be as oblivious to everything that isn't a direct concern in their daily lives, I wouldn't know much about snakes.

But I thoroughly enjoy learning (when I don't have to - or, learning something I don't have to when I am supposed to be learning something else. ). I've also had numerous times in my life where I just get a sudden obsession with reptiles, and go on a learnin' spree. Always wanted a pet snake, mom refused. Got two Leopard geckos and a bearded dragon instead.
New interest - I want a damn Frilled Dragon. Things are crazy expensive, and I hear a little more temperamental.

But I always find something new to learn about snakes. I've never seen a pit viper in real life, but if I did - I'd know it.

Did witness a harmless constrictor, only a few feet long, get butchered senselessly by some retarded teenagers. Bastards discovered she was pregnant and made it their prerogative to kill to babies when they spilled out from the mother.
Never was a tree-hugger but damn that pissed me off. Of course, I was like... 9, couldn't do a thing.

 

[Tim]

Are we sure it wasn't a mouse in the a/c?

 

[Spineshank]

Looks like a bull snake to me and they can mimic a rattler too. Just not as loud.

 

[DaveSimmons]

badger badger badger badger
badger badger badger badger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG5AwGitZbs

 

[JulesMaximus]

Nothing will ever compare to the original thread and subsequent vacations.

 

[GeekDrew]

Most people cannot differentiate between many snakes. Only the most common dangerous slither-ers can be named by some people.

Yeah, I'm one of those people. I'll probably not sleep tonight, just because of thinking about snakes for a few minutes while reading this thread (and I was too afraid to follow the OP link). If I see a snake, I'm gonna go running in the opposite direction, as fast as I can. Or freak out and scream. Or something along those lines. If I saw a snake in my truck, I'd either sell the truck or set it on fire... I'd definitely never get in it again.

I haven't got a clue what different snakes look like, and I can't bring myself to look at pictures of them. If it were up to me, I'd have torch-wielding villagers march through every square foot of the world, and kill every snake or spider that they happen upon.

If I ever have the freedom to move wherever in the world I want to, the absence of snakes and spiders will be very close to the top of my preferences list.

 

[destrekor]

Yeah, I'm one of those people. I'll probably not sleep tonight, just because of thinking about snakes for a few minutes while reading this thread (and I was too afraid to follow the OP link). If I see a snake, I'm gonna go running in the opposite direction, as fast as I can. Or freak out and scream. Or something along those lines. If I saw a snake in my truck, I'd either sell the truck or set it on fire... I'd definitely never get in it again.

I haven't got a clue what different snakes look like, and I can't bring myself to look at pictures of them. If it were up to me, I'd have torch-wielding villagers march through every square foot of the world, and kill every snake or spider that they happen upon.

If I ever have the freedom to move wherever in the world I want to, the absence of snakes and spiders will be very close to the top of my preferences list.

Awww, some of them are adorable.

Like the milk snake. It's like permanently doomed to looking like a little baby snake.
I guess as a huge fan of reptiles, I just see snakes as reptiles without legs.

And they do us good! Do you really want more rats in the world? And more bugs? Spiders get the good eats that bother us most (spiders don't like finding us, some bugs like how we taste). And snakes keep rodent populations down. Though not in the city, since snakes don't like big things like humans and vehicles. I say we make the city streets more snake friendly. No more rat problem.

 

[GeekDrew]

I'm not nearly as scared of rats as I am of snakes, so yeah, I don't care how many there are. If it were up to me, I'd coat the outside of my house, at least the lower few feet of it, and perhaps a few feet into the yard, with an electric grid, so that any bugs, snakes, whatever, trying to get in the house are immediately electrocuted. All of them.