I just found a snake in the garage

[Man of Harveys]

Seen a couple of greyhounds bitten by a snake die in front of me, not a nice thing to watch.

I BET those were dogs Uncle Spielberg had tipped

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

wow!

how do you kill them?

Of the ones iv'e killed

1 with ride on mover

2 with shotgun

2 with this old bush invention of a bit of looped hard steel wire ya smash over their backs to break em

And the 10 or so with a shovel.

To kill em with a shovel is the hardest as you have to get em movin away from you if they are coiled up
.
They watch you and get into a defensive position.

I used to throw something at em from a few feet away to get em moving .

To kill em properly with a shovel you have to pin their head down just behind the skull so they can't whip around and strike you, pin em in the middle and ya in a bit of strife.

One ya got their head pinned ya stand on the shovel with all ya weight til their head is off.

Even when the heads off though they are still dangerous to a point because the mouth keeps moving and can still deliver poison.

There's an old bush tale,not sure if it's true,that if ya cut em in half they won't die and will still attack you until sunset when they then die.

 

[Scotty Mac]

that is amazing

i would love to shoot a snake with a shotgun

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

that is amazing

i would love to shoot a snake with a shotgun

It's actually illegal

But snakes are nothing really.

Sharks now they are feckin scary.

I used to surf a bit and on a few occasions when we were in shore break type sets( dunno if they means anything to an englishman) the water wasnt that deep and on a few occasions we saw sharks in the area and had to high tail it out pretty quick.

A guy i know was attacked by one while out surfing one arvo.

He was paddling out to the set when all of a sudden one came up from out of knowhere and tried to altch onto his board and got him in the calf area, mangled it big time half ripping his calf muscle off in a big chunk.

Luckily there were other surfers who were able to go help him in time before it struck back.

At least 2 or 3 surfers a year get taken by sharks.

We were out fishing one day and we had sent out a burley(blood and guts) trail to lure fish near the boat, we were just sitting there watching the rods waiting for a bite when we heard a thud on the side of the boat that made the boat rock a bit, and we thought what the f*** was that.

We got up to look and all we saw was this massive black shadow pass under the boat, by my reckoing it was about 7-8 ft long and very broad.

There is a shark in this area called a Mako Shark that on the rare occassion has scared the shit out of fisherman because they actually jump inside the boat thrash about abit trying to latch onto somethong then jump out.

When you hook a Mako unlike most fish that try to swim away from you as you reel them in the Mako actually charges you and smashes into the boat at times.


Crocs are another matter, but they only ever seem to eat stupid tourists so i guess the locals are safe.

 

[Cian]

Have I ever said I love living in a country with a climate so inhospitable to snakes that we don't have any?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

English snakes are wonderful creatures. As are slow-worms and all other forms of lizard.

And this is a very nice poem:-

D.H. Lawrence - Snake

A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before
me.

He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom
And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of
the stone trough
And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,
And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,
He sipped with his straight mouth,
Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,
Silently.

Someone was before me at my water-trough,
And I, like a second comer, waiting.

He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
The voice of my education said to me
He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.

And voices in me said, If you were a man
You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.

But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough
And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth?

Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him? Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him? Was it humility, to feel so honoured?
I felt so honoured.

And yet those voices:
If you were not afraid, you would kill him!

And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.

He drank enough
And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken,
And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black,
Seeming to lick his lips,
And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air,
And slowly turned his head,
And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream,
Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round
And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face.

And as he put his head into that dreadful hole,
And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther,
A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into that horrid black hole,
Deliberately going into the blackness, and slowly drawing himself after,
Overcame me now his back was turned.

I looked round, I put down my pitcher,
I picked up a clumsy log
And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.

I think it did not hit him,
But suddenly that part of him that was left behind convulsed in undignified haste.
Writhed like lightning, and was gone
Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.

And immediately I regretted it.
I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!
I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.

And I thought of the albatross
And I wished he would come back, my snake.

For he seemed to me again like a king,
Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,
Now due to be crowned again.

And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate:
A pettiness.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

This thread would have been far superior if we'd have updates on the snakes progress, complete with NSChatters suggestions of solutions to the problem, and the odd photo to add to the NSC logo!

Snake in your garage? good effort

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Have I ever said I love living in a country with a climate so inhospitable to snakes that we don't have any?

We got

Worlds Deadliest Spider
Worlds Deadliest Snake
Worlds Deadliest Shark
We got Crocs
We got a Jellyfish that stings can kill
We got A Fish that if you stand on it can do ya in.
Hell there's even lizards that bite

And magpies that swoop ya and smash into ya head taking chunks ouuta ya skull.


Billy Connolly once put it nicely

"Aye Australia's a wonderful place, But it's fucken fraught with danger, i'm surprised any ye aldults fucken reach it to adulthood"

And i agree, you English should appreciate your climate better, cause if you don't like livin it sure as hell nasty critters wont!

 

[tedebear]

We got

Worlds Deadliest Spider
Worlds Deadliest Snake
Worlds Deadliest Shark
We got Crocs
We got a Jellyfish that stings can kill
We got A Fish that if you stand on it can do ya in.
Hell there's even lizards that bite

And magpies that swoop ya and smash into ya head taking chunks ouuta ya skull.


Billy Connolly once put it nicely

"Aye Australia's a wonderful place, But it's fucken fraught with danger, i'm surprised any ye aldults fucken reach it to adulthood"

And i agree, you English should appreciate your climate better, cause if you don't like livin it sure as hell nasty critters wont!

What are you doing up at 3am in the morning?

We had all manner of snakes, lizards and spiders (funnel webs, red backs etc.) in our garden growing up - the best piece of advice I was ever given was respect them and leave them be.... Although my Dad had to dispose of most of them....he was bitten a few times, although the local hopsital didn't seem to mind - quite used to it funnily enough - men being macho and all that!!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Of the ones iv'e killed

1 with ride on mover

2 with shotgun

2 with this old bush invention of a bit of looped hard steel wire ya smash over their backs to break em

And the 10 or so with a shovel.

To kill em with a shovel is the hardest as you have to get em movin away from you if they are coiled up
.
They watch you and get into a defensive position.

I used to throw something at em from a few feet away to get em moving .

To kill em properly with a shovel you have to pin their head down just behind the skull so they can't whip around and strike you, pin em in the middle and ya in a bit of strife.

One ya got their head pinned ya stand on the shovel with all ya weight til their head is off.

Even when the heads off though they are still dangerous to a point because the mouth keeps moving and can still deliver poison.

There's an old bush tale,not sure if it's true,that if ya cut em in half they won't die and will still attack you until sunset when they then die.

LOL, that just reminds me of the Whacking Day episode of The Simpsons. Brilliant.

In terms of an update on the snake's progress, well I have to admit I was standing too far away and too nervously to get a photo, but it definitely slithered away into the hedge by the pond, so safe to assume it has a family of other little snakelets in there somewhere.

Probably won't go and look if you don't mind

 

[Gwylan]

Hey Edna, we have a while family of grass snakes living in our garden (although one was accidentally killed the other day, which rather upset me).

I'm trying to think of ways to get more as they'll certainly keep the pests down.

We have a multitude of frogs, lizards and slow worms too. There are all sorts of weird things in Coldean.