Home Forum Gallery Wiki CruiserFAQ Tech Links Product Reviews Store
IH8MUD.com
Go Back   IH8MUD.com > Social Forums > Chit-Chat Section




Reply
 
LinkBack (1) Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 07-01-09, 06:45 PM   1 links from elsewhere to this Post. Click to view. #31 (permalink)
no bueno

 
Skillet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
TLCA# 16078
Posts: 2,880
Quote:
Originally Posted by Degnol View Post
Shit! I have scopes on ALL my spray-n-pray weapons
dude...and it is mounted to the screw on silencer.

I bet that thing is dead nuts...awesome.


__________________
1993 FZJ80
1973 FJ40

oh no you didn't...
Skillet is offline   Reply With Quote



Old 07-01-09, 06:58 PM   #32 (permalink)
wob
1221 Club

 
wob's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SC
Posts: 1,226
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
lol...

mac 10 with a scope...

that's usefull.
it's no silenced shotgun, that's for sure...
wob is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:01 PM   #33 (permalink)
Site Addict

 
Godwin's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,273
Snake nut jobs all over. When I lived in Florida I once met a young man and his wife who had a trailer full of snakes, plus at least one young child. As I recall they had 2 Gaboon vipers, at least one small cobra that the guy would take to the local bar and get it to perform, eastern diamondbacks, copperheads, and and bunch of nonvenomous species. Enough potential death in this one house to take out a small trailerpark.

__________________
Jim Godwin
1977 FJ40 with some stuff
1985 FJ60 with 3FE
1986 FJ60 now with stuff
1997 FZJ80 stockish

Tallassee, AL
Godwin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:04 PM   #34 (permalink)
no bueno

 
Skillet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
TLCA# 16078
Posts: 2,880
Quote:
Originally Posted by Godwin View Post
Enough potential death in this one house to take out a small trailerpark.
is that a bad thing?

__________________
1993 FZJ80
1973 FJ40

oh no you didn't...
Skillet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:10 PM   #35 (permalink)
wob
1221 Club

 
wob's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SC
Posts: 1,226
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
is that a bad thing?
Shit - some good pussy comes out of trailer parks.





yeah, I said it
wob is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:11 PM   #36 (permalink)
Forum Regular

 
crotalusatrox's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: the big blue marble
Posts: 104
there is a great story regarding marlin perkins and one fang of a gaboon viper. he was i think about 28 yrs old and they could not mix an anti-venin quick enough. as he was slipping into a coma, they found a good serum and two weeks later he was all betta'. he then went completely white-haired.

__________________
'64 FJ 40
'73 FJ 40
crotalusatrox is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:17 PM   #37 (permalink)
Former Lifer

 
beaufort-fj60's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
TLCA# 14545
Posts: 3,668
That is sad about the two year old.. they should hang that guy from his balls in the swamp.

__________________
Limit all US politicians to two terms; One in office, One in prison
beaufort-fj60 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:20 PM   #38 (permalink)
no bueno

 
Skillet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
TLCA# 16078
Posts: 2,880
Quote:
Originally Posted by beaufort-fj60 View Post
That is sad about the two year old.. they should hang that guy from his balls in the swamp.
or, feed him to a B.F.S.

__________________
1993 FZJ80
1973 FJ40

oh no you didn't...
Skillet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:21 PM   #39 (permalink)
no bueno

 
Skillet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
TLCA# 16078
Posts: 2,880
Quote:
Originally Posted by wob View Post
Shit - some good pussy comes out of trailer parks.





yeah, I said it
yea, britt was hot for a while.

__________________
1993 FZJ80
1973 FJ40

oh no you didn't...
Skillet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:24 PM   #40 (permalink)
Former Lifer

 
beaufort-fj60's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
TLCA# 14545
Posts: 3,668
Quote:
Originally Posted by wob View Post
Shit - some good pussy comes out of trailer parks.





yeah, I said it

damn, don't give away all of SC's secrets.

__________________
Limit all US politicians to two terms; One in office, One in prison
beaufort-fj60 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 07:27 PM   #41 (permalink)
Forum Regular

 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 98
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
lol...

mac 10 with a scope...

that's usefull.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
dude...and it is mounted to the screw on silencer.

I bet that thing is dead nuts...awesome.
Quote:
Originally Posted by wob View Post
it's no silenced shotgun, that's for sure...

but what about a

"...Uzi 9mm...Plasma rifle in 40 watt range..."

__________________

LC newbie
Proud daddy of 3 boys and
85 FJ60, stock, 31" tires, 2" lift, RUSTY but runs, and
LX450, locked, Slee front bumper, DD


"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
- an old Parris Island slogan.
reconranger is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 09:14 PM   #42 (permalink)
Just what you'd expect

 
Tofudebeest's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,979
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
totally different types of snakes.

pythons lay eggs, boas give live birth.

also, pythons get much larger than boas and tend to be much more grumpy.
A 2-year old ois prey-sized, the snake was not likely grumpy or agressive. Burmese are the "yellow labs of the python world". Retics are grumpy, bloods are notorious; African rocks are more like Burmese, but less common, have more wild genetics and their behaviors vary more. Red-tailed boas are known to be nasty, but some common boas can be pretty docile. Mine got bartered for some tri-color kings when it unexpectedly bit me in the face (no prior strikes), and it was 9' at the time. No fun. It turned out to have a URI, so it wasn't feeling too good. But pulling that snake off of me and my mother seeing her 14 year old with a 50 lb. snake attached to his face was a deal breaker. I have photos..can post 'em if interested...
Quote:
Originally Posted by ToyotaObsession View Post

We have 30 Foot Pythons now.
No we don't. The biggest Burmese ever known was a morbidly obese captive and was just under 27'. There hasn't even been a 30' reticulated python or green anaconda found in quite some time (there's a $50K reward for one 30', which has gone unclaimed since the 50's). Burmese are the only phython breeding in the wild in FL. My employer: http://www.nature.org/wherewework/no.../art24101.html I volunteered for the Python Patrol a few times. Biggest day: 14 specimens, some more than 10'. Yes, they are killed. A few were taken to SC, but that got old quick. The ditty about them not being believed to be breeding...outdated info too. Gravid females have been found since, and a few clutches of eggs, and a few juvies.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ToyotaObsession View Post
Heh yep.

Pythons on average tend to be longer, bigger, and heavier.

I can't remeber if the Anaconda is a Python or a Boa.
Boa, "water boa", but Jeb's right, different by a bit. They are in Family Boidae, Subfamily Boinae, but are in a different genus than the common boa species. Pythons seem quite similar, but in several major taxonomic ways are quite different.

Quote:
Originally Posted by agomez View Post
they are all constrictors and do not have to be very big to kill you.......also if they bite you're fucked
"Fucked"? No. Hurting badly? Yeah, but the bites themselves are not particularly dangerous, except possibly post-secondary bacterial infections. I have heard of one guy who almost bled to death when an emerald tree boa (longest fangs on a non-venomous snake) got him in the neck. I do not think a healthy adult can be killed by anything under 12 or 14 feet. See this: http://home.att.net/~crinaustin/Snake1.htm

Worst non-venomous bite I have ever seen was actually a yellow anaconda, a 6' one, which would just not let go, despite half a fifth of gin being poured down its gullet. It must have been 20 minutes. Joe Wasilewski, who had a short stint on Animal Planet in the mid 90's. Nasty drunken asshole he is, one of the worst I have even known. I got most of my early snakes from him.

Last edited by Tofudebeest; 07-01-09 at 10:36 PM.
Tofudebeest is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 09:22 PM   #43 (permalink)
Site Addict

 
Cruisin'Carolina's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Upstate
Posts: 1,267
WOW.....

__________________
94 FZJ80.....ARB, OME, Revo'd, Eclipsed and Locked.
86 FJ60: Sold!
Cruisin'Carolina is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 10:30 PM   #44 (permalink)
wob
1221 Club

 
wob's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SC
Posts: 1,226
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tofudebeest View Post
A few were taken to SC, but that got old quick.
Whoa - talk about timely, this was in the paper a few days ago.


What you said was not entirely true, though.

Pythons slither into study - Local / Metro - The State



AIKEN — One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina.

As they were released last week by a handful of scientists, some of the serpents hissed and lunged, baring their teeth. Others coiled up under the brush. Two slid into a pond in the center of the pit, disappearing in a snaking trail of bubbles. Some were more than 10 feet long and thicker than a forearm. And for the next year all of them will call this snake pit — an enclosed area of tangled brush and trees — home.

Ecologists will track the exotic pythons, all captured in Florida, to determine if they can survive a few hundred miles to the north, in South Carolina’s climate. Using implanted radio transmitters and data recorders, the scientists will monitor the pythons’ body temperature and physical condition.



The test could show whether the giant imported snakes, which can grow up to lengths of 25 feet, are able to spread throughout the Southeast.

The fast-growing population of snakes has been invading southern Florida’s ecosystem since 1992, when scientists speculate a bevy of Burmese pythons was released into the wild after Hurricane Andrew shattered many pet shop terrariums.

Now scientists fear this invasive species is silently slithering northward.

“They of course have an impact on native species,” said herpetologist Whit Gibbons, a professor of ecology at the University of Georgia and a member of the python project. “If you have a big old python eating five times as much as another species that eats the same prey, it’s a competitive thing.” The pythons compete with alligators, among other top predators.

Gibbons said a human is “just another prey item” to a python — especially a small human. Pythons are constrictor snakes and have been known to eat people in their native areas of Southeast Asia, he added.

“A 20-foot python, if it grabbed one of us, would bite us and then within just — instantly — seconds, it would be wrapped all the way around you and squeezing the life out of you,” Gibbons said.

While pythons don’t make a habit of attacking people and most aren’t large enough to eat a person, Gibbons called the possibility a “nightmare.”

“What about the first kitty cat they eat? Or the first little poodle? They’d love poodles, I imagine,” he said.

Mike Dorcas, a professor at Davidson College in North Carolina, has sliced open pythons in Florida to find the remains of white-tailed deer, bobcats and large birds.

Dorcas is leading the experiment at the Savannah River Ecology Lab as part of a collaboration between the U.S. Geological Service, the National Park Service and the University of Florida.

He was prompted by a study released last year showing that the native habitat of Burmese pythons in Asia is a climate match for much of the Southeastern U.S.

“The question is really, well, can they survive in a place like South Carolina or North Carolina or Arkansas or Tennessee?” Dorcas said.

One day before releasing the pythons into the pit, Dorcas snapped on latex gloves and surgically implanted radio transmitters into all seven. The transmitters enable scientists to keep track of the pythons’ location and allow them to hunt down any that manage to escape.

What are the chances of escape? “We never want to say never. We’ve made the enclosure as snake-proof as possible, but we’ve taken some other precautions,” Dorcas said, noting that all of the pythons are males, so they wouldn’t be able to reproduce.

The ecologists also inserted micro-data loggers into each snake to record the internal temperature of the python every hour. After a year, Dorcas will remove the chips and download the information into a computer to discover how the cold-blooded snakes thermoregulate in a cooler climate.

Pythons are masters of disguise — slippery and quick — and all but one of the serpents was invisible within minutes of being deposited into the pit.

So counting pythons in the wild is a daunting task. Scientists don’t have an accurate estimate of how many pythons are in Florida.

“It’s certainly in the thousands, or tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands,” said Gibbons.
wob is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 10:54 PM   #45 (permalink)
no bueno

 
Skillet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
TLCA# 16078
Posts: 2,880
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tofudebeest View Post
A 2-year old ois prey-sized, the snake was not likely grumpy or agressive. Burmese are the "yellow labs of the python world". Retics are grumpy, bloods are notorious; African rocks are more like Burmese, but less common, have more wild genetics and their behaviors vary more. Red-tailed boas are known to be nasty, but some common boas can be pretty docile. Mine got bartered for some tri-color kings when it unexpectedly bit me in the face (no prior strikes), and it was 9' at the time. No fun. It turned out to have a URI, so it wasn't feeling too good. But pulling that snake off of me and my mother seeing her 14 year old with a 50 lb. snake attached to his face was a deal breaker. I have photos..can post 'em if interested...

No we don't. The biggest Burmese ever known was a morbidly obese captive and was just under 27'. There hasn't even been a 30' reticulated python or green anaconda found in quite some time (there's a $50K reward for one 30', which has gone unclaimed since the 50's). Burmese are the only phython breeding in the wild in FL. My employer: The Nature Conservancy in Florida - Stopping a Burmese Python Invasion I volunteered for the Python Patrol a few times. Biggest day: 14 specimens, some more than 10'. Yes, they are killed. A few were taken to SC, but that got old quick. The ditty about them not being believed to be breeding...outdated info too. Gravid females have been found since, and a few clutches of eggs, and a few juvies.



Boa, "water boa", but Jeb's right, different by a bit. They are in Family Boidae, Subfamily Boinae, but are in a different genus than the common boa species. Pythons seem quite similar, but in several major taxonomic ways are quite different.


"Fucked"? No. Hurting badly? Yeah, but the bites themselves are not particularly dangerous, except possibly post-secondary bacterial infections. I have heard of one guy who almost bled to death when an emerald tree boa (longest fangs on a non-venomous snake) got him in the neck. I do not think a healthy adult can be killed by anything under 12 or 14 feet. See this: Man-Eating Snakes I

Worst non-venomous bite I have ever seen was actually a yellow anaconda, a 6' one, which would just not let go, despite half a fifth of gin being poured down its gullet. It must have been 20 minutes. Joe Wasilewski, who had a short stint on Animal Planet in the mid 90's. Nasty drunken asshole he is, one of the worst I have even known. I got most of my early snakes from him.
dude, I hope you don't take this the wrong way...but...



stfu.

__________________
1993 FZJ80
1973 FJ40

oh no you didn't...
Skillet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 10:58 PM   #46 (permalink)
Site Addict

 
'74 UA FJ's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,655
  • Quote:
    Originally Posted by wob View Post
    it's no silenced shotgun, that's for sure...
If you watch the movie, you'll notice that it is very plausible, not like the picture that skillet loved to post up.

__________________
1974 FJ40 FI vortec 350, H42/Orion 4:1, 4" lift, 35x15.50 SXs on MRW beadlocks, lock-rited f/r, Saginaw ps, rock/tree rash on hood and rocker panel, etc, etc.

1994 FZJ80 with factory lockers and 285 revos.

Quote:
Originally Posted by fsusteve View Post
I like stiffer rods
'74 UA FJ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 11:03 PM   #47 (permalink)
death to infidels

 
Cube Dweller's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Building 6, Row H, Cube 8a
Posts: 1,005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc View Post
kick @ss.

I've got an office (w/ a door!) with a window that looks out on the mountians. I have my own lab to work in. And, I just bought a house last week.

I'm also considering buying a 370Z.... when my house in IA sells.

I'm giddy like a school girl.

(yes, like a school GIRL. w/ a boyfriend/ snake/ pen!s). .......
glad it's working out for ya.
Cube Dweller is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 11:04 PM   #48 (permalink)
no bueno

 
Skillet's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: КАГІҒОЯИІА
TLCA# 16078
Posts: 2,880
Quote:
Originally Posted by '74 UA FJ View Post
If you watch the movie, you'll notice that it is very plausible, not like the picture that skillet loved to post up.

oooo, you got me. very "plausible."

wy dont yoo go out to yer shed and mayk 1 jest lyk it...eet'l bee a hoot!

__________________
1993 FZJ80
1973 FJ40

oh no you didn't...
Skillet is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 11:29 PM   #49 (permalink)
Site Addict

 
'74 UA FJ's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Alabama
Posts: 1,655
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
oooo, you got me. very "plausible."

wy dont yoo go out to yer shed and mayk 1 jest lyk it...eet'l bee a hoot!
Have you been hanging out with decavo a little too much?

__________________
1974 FJ40 FI vortec 350, H42/Orion 4:1, 4" lift, 35x15.50 SXs on MRW beadlocks, lock-rited f/r, Saginaw ps, rock/tree rash on hood and rocker panel, etc, etc.

1994 FZJ80 with factory lockers and 285 revos.

Quote:
Originally Posted by fsusteve View Post
I like stiffer rods
'74 UA FJ is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 11:29 PM   #50 (permalink)
Fourty Wonderful!

 
monniepoo's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: UPLAND
TLCA# 18362
Posts: 302
This scares me i have a 12 inch python loose in my house

__________________
Sailing on the sea of change...


MySpace





monniepoo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-01-09, 11:56 PM   #51 (permalink)
250+ Club

 
raydouble's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Arizona Bay, WA
Posts: 625
Quote:
Originally Posted by monniepoo View Post
This scares me i have a 12 inch python loose in my house
So many jokes.

__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by decavo View Post
he got a new blue ray of a Johnny Depp movie and is in a 646 coma
90' Pickup reg cab 22RE-W56-LCE dual chain conversion-tr*il gear slides-31' BFG MT-15x8 Allied rockcrawlers-SAW torsion bars-Rancho & Bilstein shocks-97' taco front bumper-custom 6 leaf rear
01' 4Skinner SR5 5VZFE 4x4 all stock
Web Wheeler Wizard-Level 21

raydouble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-02-09, 05:20 AM   #52 (permalink)
Site Addict

 
Joe_E's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: The Pork Roll, Egg & Cheese state
TLCA# 5448
Posts: 1,080
Quote:
Originally Posted by monniepoo View Post
This scares me i have a 12 inch python loose in my house
As long as it's purple or some other non natural color , you'll be fine.

__________________
'87 FJ-Shemp driver
Joe_E is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-02-09, 06:31 AM   #53 (permalink)
Forum Regular

 
gmarshall7's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: GA
Posts: 174
Quote:
Originally Posted by monniepoo View Post
This scares me i have a 12 inch python loose in my house

blue vein throbber species?

__________________
There's no way out of here.
When you come in you're in for good.
gmarshall7 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-02-09, 09:29 AM   #54 (permalink)
250+ Club

 
latinoguy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Coachella Valley, CA
Posts: 632
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atticus View Post
What kind of pet does your boyfriend have?
Oh Chit, that was funny, thanks for the morning laugh....

__________________
James
97 FZJ80, "La Mula," ARB, HIDs, Tire Carrier, Sliders, OME 850J/863 springs, L shocks, 295/75/R16 ATs, Slee TC Skid Plate, Rear Storage, CB, LEDs, SS Brake Lines, Rear work lights, HIRs, CDL pin 7
01 325I Sport Packaged DD
http://bohemianjsr.blogspot.com/
latinoguy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-02-09, 09:36 AM   #55 (permalink)
Just what you'd expect

 
Tofudebeest's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,979
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skillet View Post
dude, I hope you don't take this the wrong way...but...



stfu.
Dude.... said you were right. You know I am a snake guy. Regular verbosity + subject I love = you gonna hear about some shit.

Jebbie...
Tofudebeest is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


LinkBacks (?)
LinkBack to this Thread: http://forum.ih8mud.com/chit-chat-section/291870-snake-kills-child-fl.html
Posted By For Type Date
Snake Kills Child Pictures, News and Video - NewsFollow This thread Refback 07-02-09 09:29 AM







All times are GMT -7. The time now is 12:04 AM.


vBulletin® v3.8.4 ©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.1
Clubs, Garage Plus vBulletin Plugins by Drive Thru Online, Inc.
©2000-2009 by IH8MUD Inc. - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Thanks to all those who have contributed!
One of the largest message boards on the web !