On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:48:15 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:34:50 -0400, mmc wrote:


The only time my wife ever called and asked if I could come home from
work early was when she opened a bottom kitchen drawer and found a 4'
red rat snake curled up.

All this snake talk reminds me of something I saw on TV years ago. You
may have seen it. It was in Florida. A guy called the cops saying there
was a snake in his crawl space. The cops said they don't do snakes. The
guy says, but it's a big snake. The cops still don't do snakes, so he
called one of those critter ridder companies.

Anyway, they show up and this guy crawls under the house, and gets all
excited, and proceeds to pull out a 20 something foot boa or python. I
can't remember exactly. Me, I don't like crawl spaces because they have
spiders and bugs. No way would I ever crawl inside knowing there's a
snake in there, let alone a 20' snake.

If you watch Animal Planet you'll see a lot of those big snakes down
there. Burmese pythons are one.
I think they have a show called Pet Rescue which sometimes features
Miami.
Some time ago, maybe 20 years - hey maybe when The Wall fell - all
sense of personal responsibility regarding importation of foreign
species disappeared. Probably mostly Bill Clinton's fault.
Or the anything goes global capitalists. But I repeat myself.

--Vic