You want snakes...... come to Thailand. We have extra and even have a Snake
Farm where the little boys and girls are milked and anti-venom is made on site.
Come on over and watch, public viewing daily.
Charles Harpole, HS0ZCW
k4vud@hotmail.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:40:09 -0500
> From: sub1@rogerhalstead.com
> To: elespe@lisco.com
> CC: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] FW: WD-40 Is Not....
>
> Pretty difficult to find an area in the lower 48 without snakes.
> I've only seen one here in Lower Michigan and it was the one that bit
> me. I was trimming the bushes around the house so I could get at the
> coax, when I discovered a bird's nest full of not quite ready to fly
> birds. I was carefully trimming around them when I scraped my upper,
> right arm. It really stung, but I didn't think much about it until it
> started to ache. Close inspection disclosed to small puncture marks in
> the side of my arm just above mid bicep. Closer inspection of the
> trimming area disclosed a little (almost invisible) Mississauga wrapped
> around a pine branch which quickly became many more much smaller snakes
> that weren't very lively. Did I mention my wife hates snakes and she
> happened to have a shovel?
>
> Other than hurting and my upper arm turning Technicolor that's about all
> there was to it...but it was a small one.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
> Paul Kraemer wrote:
> > I spell that *HOUSE FOR SALE*
> > Paul K0UYA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charlie Young" <weeksmgr@hotmail.com>
> > To: <amps@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 4:52 PM
> > Subject: [Amps] FW: WD-40 Is Not....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Gerald, K5GW asks:
> >
> >
> >> Say, I have always wondered about snake oil: Is it supposed to attract
> >> snakes?,repel snakes?, made from snakes? or what?
> >>
> >
> > I don't know about snake oil, but can tell you something
> > that makes snakes mad. They don't like paint from an
> > aerosol can. Back in the mid 1970's I lived in a hillside
> > house that was on a full basement. My shack was in the
> > basement. Returning from Field Day, my son and I were
> > unloading equipment. Something moved on top of my back
> > basement wall, which was made from cider block. There was
> > a snake up there. I took a 6' long steel bar, which coal miners call a
> > slate
> > bar, and prodded the thing trying to crush
> > it. The snake slithered down inside the block, but poked its head out and
> > was looking at me. I would jab, it would duck
> > down inside the block.
> >
> > No way I could leave a snake inside my basement wall.
> > What to do? There was a can of red insulating spray paint
> > on the workbench. I grabbed the can, and sprayed the paint
> > inside the block. Instantly, the snake came out of the block, down the wall
> > to the floor, and charged me. I jumped in a chair which fortunately was
> > handy, and killed the snake with
> > the metal bar while it was on the floor, between legs of the chair. It was
> > a
> > big rattlesnake.
> >
> > I figure WD40 would have had a similar effect.
> >
> > There is more to this story.
> >
> > My wife and sons went grocery shopping later that day. I started thinking
> > that where there was one snake, there might be another. While they were
> > gone, I checked out the basement carefully again. Sure enough, on top of
> > the block wall about 12' from where the first snake was, there was a second
> > one. This one was coiled up and chose to fight it out with me from his (or
> > her) position. I managed to kill it with the metal bar but with
> > considerable difficulty. Another huge rattlesnake.
> >
> > I found the snakes had crawled through a gap in the sill plate on top of my
> > basement wall.
> >
> > So, don't spray a snake (especially a rattlesnake) with spray
> > paint or WD40 unless you have a place to run or something to climb on to
> > get
> > away from the thing.
> >
> > 73 Charlie N8RR
> >
> >
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