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)
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> ----- 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....
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> Gerald, K5GW asks:
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>> Say, I have always wondered about snake oil: Is it supposed to attract
>> snakes?,repel snakes?, made from snakes? or what?
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> 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.
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> 73 Charlie N8RR
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