Sounds like Bermuda is full of unfavorable bugs!
BEWARE
John, I am NOT brave! I'll still jump from cockroaches....in front of the kids. But I have no problem with that....I don't necessarily want the kids thinking cockroaches are cool (that they have a place in the big scheme of things, perhaps.....cool, NOT)! LOL I mean, if one of the kids really wanted a pet tarantula I'd let them have one (when they are teenagers and old enough to be responsible for it's care!!!). If they wanted a pet snake (non-venomous of course!) I'd let them have one. But I aint never gonna let 'em have a cockroach as a pet! ROTFL
-Julie
Its cuz you're a girl, Julie. Girls do that. Doesn't mean ya'll aren't brave. Cockroachs are cool, too. They just tend to poop in all the wrong places! Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider on my thigh a few years back. Thankfully, it was a baby recluse so it was a small bite. Let me tell you, it was the worst pain I have ever experienced and the poison ate a whole into my leg about the size of a regular pencil eraser and about a half inch down into the flesh. The resulting lump around the hole was 4 inches in diameter and felt like a burning piece of charcoal was in my leg for days. It took 4 months or more to heal. I could feel the 4 inch lump for at least 3 years. I was very lucky it was a small bite. I can't imagine how awful a large recluse spider bite must feel like. If you want to see some really gross spider bites do a search on the recluse spider. Maggie, you better not do this or you may have more nightmares.
Info about what the bite looks like: if you are bitten by something and then a burning pain becomes more and more intense, the area turns red and then purplish in the center almost looking like hemoraging ... you had better go to a doctor.
Yep. Been bit by one. I did not experience intense pain but the sore takes many months to clear. DW was bitten by a Black Widow and was hospitalized, but this was before I knew her. Black Widows are very common in the Southwest, from Oklahoma to Calif. Almost every garage I was in in Calif. had Black Widows. These venoms affect different people differently. The most painful thing to me is a Paper Wasp sting. Bee don't hurt at all, just cause swelling. The Cottonmouth Bite felt like a wasp sting even though no venom was injected, as there was likely a trace of it on the fangs.
I still prefer to live here to anyplace else I can think of.
trois
My Dad got a black widow bite on the butt in the outhouse when he was a kid. Very sick lad for a while. No anti venom in those days.
Ouch, what an insulting experience! :-(
He was a little guy but, feared nothing!
Texas is not the only place that has slithery varmints. My brother in Oklahoma sent me this picture of one man's rattlesnake capture one afternoon down in hoot owl country. Twelve more were picked up the next day.
My boys were astonished to see so many! What a catch!
How'd he get them to all lay so still like that for the pic? ;-) YIKES.....gives me the shivers just thinking about that many rattlesnakes in one place in Oklahoma! Ack!
Julie is a silly goose!
:-D
I'm quite sure they're lying still because they're dead. The man farms near the little town of Covington in Garfield County (Enid is there also.) On April 25th he was rooting out cedar with a bobcat when he unearthed the den. Later he was told that rattlenake meat sells for $9 per lb. and there is also a market for the skins. There are 45 snakes in the picture, the longest being 51 inches. The following day's capture brought the total to 57.
You just ruined my day. I was prepaired to lecture on snake training
oh trois! Julie, that is what my kids were wondering as well, I had to tell them they were ALL dead! Hope he sold the meat and skins, I would think anyone in these parts would know what that sells for. The Big Texan in Amarillo will buy your snake kills for meat, and also when there is a nice looking specimen, they taxidermy it and put it in their display in the gift shop (not for the squeamish). WHAT AM I SAYING, THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH!!!
I tried eating some once. Blaaaaa. Same as alligator.
What's the matter trois, don't you like chicken? LOL
Not rotten smelling chicken.
I skinned one of these one time and the smell was pretty bad ... used a clothespin on my nose.
I bet you didn't want to eat it, did you?
I ate some crocodile in Australia. White meat, tough and chewy, a little like swordfish. It had been marinated in a sauce, so can't say what the flavor was - really rather bland overall.
I think that if Alligator and Rattlesnake had been soaked in wine for a few weeks, it wouldn't have smelled so bad. Other people said they could not detect any odor. They were smokers.
That was the first thing I noticed when I quit smoking, the many unpleasant odors in the world.
Later, I started smelling flowers again.
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That is one of the reasons I must give up the habit. I've tried and failed many times. I still have hope that it can be done! I still remember how gross my father smelled when I was a kid.
I just carried an unopened pack in my shirt pocket for 8 months, until the urge left. Sometimes I wanted to take one away from someone else that was smoking and smoke it myself.
I just kept telling myself that I was strong enough to not open that pac.
Smoke free 23 years and still alive. None of my relatives that smoked made it past 72, most died in their 60s. Non smokers usually 90s. Never lung cancer, always heart.
DW was given a choice by DR. Smoke or breath? She also free for 23 years, and in good health. Her mother died of lung cancer at 88 and was still smoking until she died.
So, STOP IT!!
Hey TF;
"WHAT AM I SAYING, THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH!!!"
Don't read this if ya are truly squeamish!
Story, and two pic's. Beware, Indeed!
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The downloaded pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear.
He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy emptied his 7mm Magnum semiautomatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head.
The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.
Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the wild.
Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours including a missing hiker.
The US Forest Service, backtracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found.
Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (the Service ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body), it only wounded the bear and probably angered it immensely.
The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.
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Think about this:
If you are an average size man; You would be level with the bear's navel when he stood upright. The bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.
Here is tha Paw!
Yikes, glad I didn't meet him!!
He charged himself out of existence.
Moral:
Pay cash and stay out of the Alaskan woods.
trois, you are right, I passed on eating the rattlesnake.
heycharlie, thanks for the bear information and photos. I am glad that I don't have to worry about any around here.
Yuska, TamaraFaye...please note the *wink* after my inquiry about the snakes. ;-) I was kidding! :-D Of course I knew they were dead.
-Julie
Charlie, OMG that's a giant bear! Is the guy in the pic the guy who shot and killed the bear? I wonder if he's still shaking...I certainly would be. If I'd managed not to faint dead away when I saw the bear....and I managed to shoot him and kill him before he killed me....I'm fairly certain I'd have fainted or thrown up immediately afterwards. I hate the thought of ever killing bears, but this is apparently one instance when there was no choice. It gives me shivers just thinking about the size of that thing and no strong iron bars separating him and me! ACK!
-Julie
That was truly a giant and I am sure he could have whupped my alligator.
It is good that this bear is dead. He would not have stopped. When I was in Delta Junction, Ak a young woman geologist straight out of college working alone for an oil company watched as a black bear ate both her arms. Had she been a government employee she would not have been alone. Of course they were more concerned about costs. Odd, priority.
Sorry, to burst the bubble, but this story is much embellished. No men were actually eaten...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bearhunt.asp
WARNING: The link also has a much more gruesome picture included with some of the circulating e-mails. It is at the bottom of the page so don't scroll down if you do not want to see it.
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Sweezel, thanks for clearing this up! OMG that's the worst photograph of this kind that I've ever seen. It's sickening. Why oh why did they include it????????? Don't they have any respect for the family left behind? Imagine being that man's wife or sister or mother....and having that photo pop up on some discussion list you were a member of! The people who circulated that pic in the first place really are sick...
-Julie
No problem. I thought it sounded a little fishy, so I thought I would check Snopes. I agree about the picture. I think some people are just sick and like to shock. Sad.
The problem is, it must've been a police or forensics person who leaked this photo....no one else would've had access to that site while the investigation was taking place and you can see that it's an officer of some sort leaning over the body.....rubber gloves...and therefore an officer of some sort taking the photo. So so sick!
-Julie
I wondered about deer hunting this time of year. That seemed at odds with all I know about the subject.
John and Trois, go here please :-)
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/491828/
Julie, yes, I know, but by the look on my kids' faces, that is what they were thinking as well ;-)
Big bear. Last year, true story, read in two newspapers, the couple who headed the organiztion for proving that bears are really friendly were both eaten at the same time that some hunters from Fritch were on the other side of the ridge from them.
Have a great day, everyone, and watch out for SNAKES!