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carolinawildcat

carolinawildcat

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I just viewed the thread about the alligator, and last week my neighbor caught a two-foot copperhead in his service yard.
It got me wondering...who has to deal with the most pests when working?
Here in SC we have gators, spiders that bite enough to leave welps, Eastern Diamondback and canebrake rattlesnakes, water moccasins and the aforementioned copperheads (three of the four poisonous breeds). FYI -- copperheads can hurt you no matter if they're juvenile; other snakes develop venom over time while copperheads are born with venom.
I guess out West you guys have scorpions and lots of snakes, and the guys in FL have crocs, too.
Any good animal stories?
 
About 8-9 years ago we were growing large container plants on an outdoor growing pad and had them on pot to pot spacing. I usually picked up 2 pots in each hand to move or load them. One day I picked up a couple of pots and saw a little motion in my side vision and felt movement in one of the pots. It was a 4' timber rattler and he just missed hitting me in the face. I had dropped the pot just in time. He did manage to "juice" me a little. Venom will burn your skin and cause blisters in short order. Even wiping it off quickly, it still took a couple of weeks to heal up and reddnes to go away.
 
Last week I was washing in a parking garage. Only a little one, just so some don't get upset. I was washing out a crevice, and a pink Scorpion came out after me. I have never seen a pink one before, so I was going to let it go, because I believe in being kind to all sexual persuasions. He still came after me, so I stepped on him.
Another time, I had a guy cleaning at a street side location in the middle of town, a town of 400,000, and there was about an 8 foot rattle snake coiled up protecting his territory.
There are always the story's of cleaning the ceilings of parking garages, and having black widows blown back on us. No one has gotten bit, yet.
 
We have all kinds of critters, spiders, gators, snakes, scorpions, chupacabra's, etc....

You have to watch out for the Brown Recluse spider, it's venom has E Coli bacteria and it will rot out your skin quickly, in less than 7 days with medical treatment you will have a crater in your arm or leg where you were bit.

Tons and tons of rattlers here but also the others but more rattlers than anything except around the water, then tons of water moccasins. I know a guy that his son had to have his leg amputated because 1 water moccasin bit him numerous times over and over, they are very aggresive.

Gators, they are in the rivers, creeks, lakes, etc.... Here at a local golf course, they have an attacking duck (seriously) and an alligator that you have to watch out for.
 
I had a wild muskrat in my shop. Got on the workbench trying to get out, knocked over a pan of used motor oil, kicked everything that was on the bench off, and left oily footprints all over the window pawing at the glass.


Just sayin'...
 
Russ Johnson said:
I had a wild muskrat in my shop. Got on the workbench trying to get out, knocked over a pan of used motor oil, kicked everything that was on the bench off, and left oily footprints all over the window pawing at the glass.


Just sayin'...
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Are you sure it wasn't Larry? hahahahahahaha
 
I have a good story for you. When I lived in the Florida Keys as a Deputy Sheriff I would work nights and sleep most of the day. One day while I was sleeping in my bed on my side I started to wake up and rolled over on my back, I felt something crawl over my stomach. I knew what it was and swatted it off my belly as I jumped off the bed. It was a 10" scorpion, I killed it and disposed of it. At the time I was alittle nervous but in the Keys they are everywhere and you have to watch out for them. What really got me nervous is when I went to the bathroom and saw in the mirror an imprint on the side of my body of the scorpion fully extended like a tatoo. My wife came home 2-hours later and you could still see the imprint. I know the scorpion hid under me for warmth but why he didn't sting me when I turned over I will never know, but this shook me up for sure! Hugh
 
offdutyfireman said:
We have a lot of yankees down here. Can't step on them or do much with them:winknudge:
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Your probably cleaning alot of their properties. If it werent for Yankees you would be washing Single wides for $25.00 a piece.:rolleyes:
 
I was doing a resi job about a month ago and had to move some PVC pipe stacked against a shed. The last piece had a 3 in. translucent scorpion with a redish colored dot on its head. All the scorpions around here are black maybe an inch and a half at most. This thing was freaky lookin. You could nearly see through him. I was gonna catch it but the owner smashed it before i could.
 
Russ Johnson said:
In a fur coat?
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Some guys can be really hairy with their shirts off...lol..

We've had customers that asked if we could get squirrells out of the attics back in our service days. I guess they thought that since we were on the roof anyways that we could handle where they get in from. One of the guys had claimed that he also shot a snake in the back yard of a customer's house with a 0 deg tip...put a good hole in it. Although I question that story...He's gonna see the snake, get the tip from the van (we were woodies so 0's were taboo), and go find the snake and shoot it?? :shrug:
 
Donny Jackson said:
just so you know, most all southerners do not consider you a Yankee !!! Being I'm from south bend I hear it all the time you aint no Yankee you know you gotta be from jersey or new york or from that area ...LOL
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hmm - round here, if you're from north of the savannah river...you're a yankee.
 
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