Just a funny story (wild animal encounter)

[2400]

When I was in high school a buddy and I used to catch rattlesnakes and sell them to the university to be milked. We had some old heavy cardboard Justin boot boxes that we put them in. If you did it right you could get 6-7 snakes in a box then tie it shut with twine.

We had a box full of snakes one afternoon sitting on the back seat of my buddies car. We stopped for a soda and candy bar on the "bad" side of town on our way to the university. We came out and looked in the back and NO box. We looked everywhere, under the seats, car, WTF? Then we started driving around looking for the asshole that stole our box and saw 8-10 guys in a circle around a guy holding our box. He opened the box and POOF all we could see was assholes and elbows and snakes flying through the air.

We got the fuck out of there as fast as we could but only made it a couple of miles before we had to stop. I was laughing so hard I think I peed on myself. Every time we stopped laughing, we'ed look at each other and start laughing again.

I'm laughing again just thinking about it.

 

[Jigaman]

When I was in high school a buddy and I used to catch rattlesnakes and sell them to the university to be milked. We had some old heavy cardboard Justin boot boxes that we put them in. If you did it right you could get 6-7 snakes in a box then tie it shut with twine.

We had a box full of snakes one afternoon sitting on the back seat of my buddies car. We stopped for a soda and candy bar on the "bad" side of town on our way to the university. We came out and looked in the back and NO box. We looked everywhere, under the seats, car, WTF? Then we started driving around looking for the asshole that stole our box and saw 8-10 guys in a circle around a guy holding our box. He opened the box and POOF all we could see was assholes and elbows and snakes flying through the air.

We got the fuck out of there as fast as we could but only made it a couple of miles before we had to stop. I was laughing so hard I think I peed on myself. Every time we stopped laughing, we'ed look at each other and start laughing again.

I'm laughing again just thinking about it.

I had no idea that snakes have nipples

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[2400]

I had no idea that snakes have nipples

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Yuppers they sure do and they like to have them played with.




:;:smokin

 

[Iwhackwheat]

 

[Allen]

2400,

That's a great story. Too damn funny.

I used to know a fella that caught a rattlesnake and put it in his saddlebag. Some other emergency happened that day and he left his horse tied up only to have another guy do him a favor by unsaddling his horse. And since it was wet and muddy out, the guy thought he'd empty the contents of the saddlebag out as well to let them dry. I guess the snake wasn't in good enough shape to get stuffed after being introduced to a shovel, repeatedly.

 

[deleted]

Not a tailrace story, but down on the Sheyenne in VC, I had a rather large coon waltz right between my legs while I was standing on the bank casting. Saw him coming from at least 30 yards and wanted to see how close he'd get. Figured that was about as close as you can get without wearing him for a hat. Goofy thing kept walking back and forth behind my heels and on my toes ALL NIGHT. He didn't even look up when he passed me. Got to the point I felt a bit sorry for him so I tossed him a bullhead. That made him happy and he left. Saw him several times throughout the summer and each time he got a bullhead. Big SOB, but I never saw any aggression of any type so we got along famously. He did like his bullheads though.

I have to do the same thing with a couple friends of mine that can't catch their own.........

 

[MSA]

Actually, i got drunk and fought a skunk....pretty sure i got pictures of that episode to

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Drank too much one night and my buddies let me get in a fight with a bear, woke up the next morning to find out the bear won.

sucker had a mean right hook

 

[LBrandt]

OK here's my snake story. Now remember a garter snake will give me a absolute heart attack. Did a lot of pocket gopher trapping back in high school and after. I was trapping an alfalfa field for a rancher up by Mcleod. Real sandy soil up there, like sugar sand. Well I knelt down astride this big mound bent over and was ready to shove the dirt to one side when I notice the mound was looking back. Then I notice the long flicking forked T. If there was a gold medal given for high jump from a knelling position I am sure the record has not been broken yet. The fall back to earth damed near killed me. Ran back to my truck and grabbed my shotgun and proceded to make a long snake into a lot of smaller snakes. It was a hog nosed sand snake which looks a lot like a rattler esp when you are that close and I mean inches. Still gives me the shakes just thinking about it.

 

[fullrut]

I've had a couple raccoons and fox over the years. My family had a skunk and a crow when I was really young. The one racoon I had when my kids were still little. "Franky" lived with us for four years until the call of nature made her wander off. Only time she went outside was with the family. She was box trained and never really raised any real hell with anything in the house.. When she got bigger the wife, cat and dog didn't really appreciate here. We had to keep a baby lock on the fridge to keep her out of there. She had a severe addiction to cheese. Wouldn't mess with anything else in the fridge. She managed to get in there when some one forgot to lock it. You haven't heard anything as funny as a constipated raccoon trying to shit in a box. It would start as a low grunt that would soon be a high pitched squeal. Then she stop and turn around to see if anything came out. We finally got her to eat some canned peaches and nature took it's course. Damn smart critter. She knew everyone by name. You could tell her to go get one of the kids or pets and she would. Always greeted me at the door after work with a hug. She'd wait for the school bus to bring the kids home. Almost got on the bus one day when she got out the door between my legs. Bus driver damn near died when he saw that coon coming and ran up grabbed a 25lb coon like a puppy. Lots of good memories.