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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:43:51 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:26:31 -0500, Vic Smith wrote:

Go ahead and laugh. Had a rock crab clamp on to my thumb, cutting it.
Almost fainted. Had to sit down with my head below my knees. I think
they have some kind of venom. That's what I think.

Can't recall where I read/saw it, but somewhere there was a guy having a
sit-down, when a boa slithered out of the plumbing. Honestly, I'm not
all that "girlie" when it comes to critters, but if that happened to me,
I don't think I'd ever get regular again.

There used to be a fellow in Putnam everybody called Snake Man - he
had a collection of pythons and boas - a couple of them on the larger
side and one was a spectacular example of Burmese Python - 18 foot
long, 300+ pounds.

Well it got loose. And, as it happened, Snake Man lived across the
street from St. Mary's School. Locked the school down until they
could find it - lot's of little ones at St. Mary's.

Yep - you guessed it. They found the snake near the rear entrance of
the school that went out to the playground. Nobody ever figured out
how the snake managed to cross the street without somebody spotting
it.

One of the funnnier things I've ever seen was at Bein Hoa AFB in
Vietnam. One of the fighter groups there had a Burmese Python in
captivity - guys used to visit and pull the snake out of it's cage,
drap it around their shoulders and take a picture. Proceeds went to
the fighter squadron bar fund.

One of our guys paid the money and did the snake/shoulders thing until
it bit him and started wrapping itself around. I'll give the kid
credit - he didn't panic and we got the snake off of him in short
order, but they stopped the picture deal immediately.

The snake ended up at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raliegh, NC.