Thread: Do you run over snakes?

If I could safely I would. Looks like its just a python of some sort.

I never run any animal over on purpose. Having said that, I don't swerve wildly to miss them either. That snake looks more like a speed hump!

Whoa!!!!!!!
I value my wheel alignment

No I don't - snakes are protected species.

Many years ago I was on a LROCS trip and one of the members was seen to dart across to the wrong side of the road and slam on his brakes producing a cloud of dust.

At the next stop we asked what was the reason for the abberrent behaviour. His reply was that he saw a red bellied black at the side of the road and wanted to kill it, the braking episode was the guarantee the event.

The corrollary to the story was that the next day when he went to the car he found a black snake in the garage. The reptile had wrapped itself around the axle housing. Sadly I don't think the snake survived it's holiday to the suburbs.

Diana

BTW: We have red bellies in our hay shed, they are really useful animals that keep the mice levels down. Occasionally you pick up a bale of hay and find a black, we just replace the bale and go to the next one. They are more afraid of us than we are of them and you don't seem to find browns or tigers (which are nasty) when you have blacks.

thats a Green Ananconda from South America, and , no I dont, and anyone that does deliberately is breaking the law and a tosser to boot.

flicked a tiger snake a good 20 yards on my yamaha yz 426 a few year ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but I've heard that no one has ever died of a black snake bite.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

No I don't - snakes are protected species.

Many years ago I was on a LROCS trip and one of the members was seen to dart across to the wrong side of the road and slam on his brakes producing a cloud of dust.

At the next stop we asked what was the reason for the abberrent behaviour. His reply was that he saw a red bellied black at the side of the road and wanted to kill it, the braking episode was the guarantee the event.

The corrollary to the story was that the next day when he went to the car he found a black snake in the garage. The reptile had wrapped itself around the axle housing. Sadly I don't think the snake survived it's holiday to the suburbs.

Diana

BTW: We have red bellies in our hay shed, they are really useful animals that keep the mice levels down. Occasionally you pick up a bale of hay and find a black, we just replace the bale and go to the next one. They are more afraid of us than we are of them and you don't seem to find browns or tigers (which are nasty) when you have blacks.

So true and the number of people that get a bite from a snake come from a result of trying to kill the snake , Leave em be i say