Fear And Loathing

[OFT II]

Apparently we have a shortage of Rattlesnakes in MN. Our DNR, in an effort to remedy this shortage, has removed deer habitat and improved it for Timber Rattlers. A fine use of money generated by hunters for hunters.
Timber rattlesnake survey & habitat improvement - Nongame Wildlife Program: Minnesota DNR
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If you'll pay the shipping charges we would be glad to send you a few truck loads.

 

[El Bombardero]

Oh, only these

Tarantula hawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The only legitimate time to use birdshot for self defense.

 

[DR505]

Did anyone mention:

A co-worker just hates them.

 

[timn8er]

"With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know."

I think I'll have to read that book again!

Its one of my all time favorites...do you remember:

"Wow! I've never ridden in a convertible before!"

"Yeah? Well I guess you're about ready then."

Or something like that!

 

[Doug M.]

Apparently venomous snakes creep me out, but mostly to the extent of serious caution, not major tremors. I used to be like a little monkey on a ladder, but once I got older, got the point that I am not comfortable on most ladders and other heights.

Fear, with a dangerous attraction: REDHEADS.

 

[feralmerril]

Years ago near the black hills there was a tourist trap, sort of a snake farm or zoo. Maybe its still there? Anyway in the mid 50s we stopped there on a family trip. As I recall they had a rattelsnake in a glass box. I think they gave you some kind of prize if you could hold your hand gainst the glass while the rattler struck at your hand from the inside. They claimed it was impossible not to jerk your hand back!

 

[feralmerril]

After John wayne gacey, "the killer clown", I aint fond of clowns either.

 

[vigil617]

It's funny, I'm afraid of heights but not of flying. I can ride an elevator up the outside of a seventy-eight story building--did it in Atlanta. The difference seems to be that I'm enclosed in something.

That's me, too. The very idea, though, of walking to the edge of a ledge and looking down gives me the weirdest feeling, and for some reason, it's particularly noticeable in the soles of my feet. Can't explain it. For me, a nightmare is being up high and looking down, and knowing I'm about to fallllllll....

Snakes don't especially bother me. I was a Scout camp nature director one summer and was responsible for catching all the snakes the campers found. (Those that they didn't bring to me in their own hot little hands, that is) We kept 'em in a four-foot tall fiberglass tub with a screen mesh over it, so the Scouts could look at the snakes and learn to identify them -- especially poisonous versus non-poisonous. The only poisonous ones we had were pygmy rattlers (no more than 18 inches long) and, of course, the ubiquitous copperhead -- a truly lovely snake except for the toxic venom thing.

At the end of the summer it was necessary to do something with all the snakes -- probably 30 or so -- that had accumulated over the course of camp. I was in charge of deciding, and I didn't want to kill them or let them go in camp, so I loaded 'em up all up in my laundry bag, took a canoe from the waterfront, and paddled a couple miles downriver to a wild place with no houses around, and turned 'em all loose.

I'm not proud of some of the things I did as a 20-year old, but as for those snakes, it's a good memory.

 

[feralmerril]

While I used to fly I still am afraid of heigths. Doesnt bother me in a plane but I am afraid to service my water cooler on our single story house!
It may be because as a 5 year old boy I fell through a hay mow on my head and badly cracked my skull. Yeah, I know the line!

 

[mrbort]

Rats & mice that are not pets and are indoors. Yuck.

Claustrophobia. I will panic if I get caught taking off a jacket or shirt that is too small or if I zip myself into a bag where my hands cant go from below my hips to above my head.

 

[shouldazagged]

Fear, with a dangerous attraction: REDHEADS.

Oh, hell yes! But without the fear...

 

[shouldazagged]

It should be. Ya done good!

 

[rimfired]

Fear and Loathing.
We have too many timber rattlers at our State Lease Camp.
Now in PA if you want to kill a rattler you must purchase a stamp/liscense. You're allowed one a year.
I loath Morons!

 

[LVSteve]

Oh, only these

Tarantula hawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The only legitimate time to use birdshot for self defense.

We get plenty of them here. They are poor flyers so when it is windy they often bump into you. Fortunately, I have never been stung as they seem to consider humans as scenery rather than a living threat. However, I am reliably informed that the sting is incredibly painful, well North of any other wasp or even a Fire Ant.

 

[El Bombardero]

We get plenty of them here. They are poor flyers so when it is windy they often bump into you. Fortunately, I have never been stung as they seem to consider humans as scenery rather than a living threat. However, I am reliably informed that the sting is incredibly painful, well North of any other wasp or even a Fire Ant.

according to the Scmidt sting pain index, second worst sting in the insect world. Second only to the bullet ant, which is called the bullet ant because if you get stung it feels like you've been shot.

Schmidt sting pain index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[mr-mom]

Broccoli.......

 

[quneur]

With your 300 pound Samoan attorney no doubt

in Spandex! Shiver

 

[chicog4]

My biggest fear is people that are texting while driving. They are dangerous and you're not allowed to shoot them.