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exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
I have just spent the last hour or so trying to wrangle a 4ft black snake out of my house before I think about going to bed. Gets the heart pumping....no Steve Irwin "grab'm by the neck and look 'em in the eye" stuff though.
A broomstick and a handy cane knife in case he decided to head into the bedroom instead of out the back door.
Best aerobic excercise, the old heart rate almost doubles.
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you crazy antipodeans and your strange hobbies.
"They're very much like scruffy pigs to look at, and they've got big, knobbly warts and lumps all over their long, hairy faces. They are very, very ugly indeed..."
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......and thats just a relaxing way to spend the last few minutes before going to bed.
Don't ask what we do for a bit of excitement
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Bad Monkey
wish I had a snake in my house...
right old crockodile dundee arent you?
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from - http://www.usyd.edu.au/anaes/venom/envenomation.html
Venomous Australian creatures
Australia is unfortunate in having many species of venomous creatures, both on land and in the sea, including:
38 terrestrial snakes and 23 sea snakes.
22 spiders, 4 ants, the honey bee, 3 wasps, 2 beetles(!), 6 scorpions, 2 caterpillars, centipedes, millipedes, mosquitoes, sandflies, thrips and other insects.
The platypus and echidna both have venomous defence systems.
In the coastal waters there are 2 blue-ringed octopi, 7 jellyfish, cone shells, 2 stonefish, 21 other fishes including the flathead, the Port Jackson shark, 11 rays, starfish including the crown of thorns, corals, anemonies, urchins, stinging sponges, marine worms, leeches, frogs and toads.
As far as snakes go, Australia is home to the ten most lethal in the world. Sturan Sutherland reckons that of the world's top 25 venomous snakes, Australia has 21. After considering venom toxicity, average yield, and aggressivness, he ranked the North American diamond-backed rattlesnake at number 25 in the world, with the Indian cobra and African black mamba 12th and 13th respectively!
dp
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Originally posted by david petley
....it doesn't sound like too much fun, I had a friend who lost the first joint of one of his thumbs to a bite from a similar snake. He was very sick for about a week and they took his thumb off about 5 weeks later 'cos it wouldn't stop rotting.
david p.
Yeah, thanks for that - with my morning coffee.
'Feeling real crook' - Now that's Oz-speak. Cool.
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I dont think I would be calm enough to gently urge it out of my house.... straight for the meat cleaver and shovel for me!
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Juvenile Delinquent
Nope, no snakes in my country. Some guy called Patrick got rid of 'em all. I hear they make good belts.
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Bad Monkey
can you chop a snake up like you can a worm? I mean if you chop a worm into 50 pieces, then you get 50 living worms right? can you do the same to a snake...
Imagine if you chopped it into 50 pieces and all 50 pieces started chasing you round the kitchen....thats quite scary actually
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Re: exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
Originally posted by david petley
Best aerobic excercise, the old heart rate almost doubles.
david p.
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Re: exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
Originally posted by david petley
I have just spent the last hour or so trying to wrangle a 4ft black snake out of my house before I think about going to bed. Gets the heart pumping....no Steve Irwin "grab'm by the neck and look 'em in the eye" stuff though.
nice one, I was in the same situation once, not in merry old england where nothing is venemous except people in retail. I was in costa rica alone at a friend's house, a simple shack with no walls, sleeping in a hammock and a fer de lance tried to crawl in with me
it had come up an abutting tree from the ground and seemed to think my hammock was a good place to hang... someone getting out of a hammock in an emergency is not a pretty sight! After I picked myself up off the floor I grabbed a machete and prepared for an atavistic struggle for survival! I didn't want to kill him but he was just hanging there, half on the tree and half in the air swaying. I thought the sight of a half-naked crazed pasty englishman waving a two foot knife would scare him but apparently he had seen it all before...
in the end he succumbed to my bashing the tree with the machete and disappeared into the dark but I slept with one eye open that night.
funnily enough I never had any close encounters in my trips to australia, even when camping in the outback for a couple of weeks, so don't let the stories put you off going
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Originally posted by qetret
can you chop a snake up like you can a worm? I mean if you chop a worm into 50 pieces, then you get 50 living worms right? can you do the same to a snake...
Imagine if you chopped it into 50 pieces and all 50 pieces started chasing you round the kitchen....thats quite scary actually
the stuff of nightmares, like disneys wizard's apprentice with his broom but I am sure you cannot chop anything into 50 pieces and have them all zooming around very soon.
dp
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Re: Re: exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
Originally posted by aversion
I thought the sight of a half-naked crazed pasty englishman waving a two foot knife would scare him but apparently he had seen it all before...
They feed on lizards, frogs, birds and small mammals...
and are especially fond of pasty englishmen.
He was after you, mate
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hehe, remind me to take the spray on tan mext time!
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RE:snakebite
we were always taught to -
1) apply a compression bandage to the whole of a bitten limb. eg, bitten on the finger, wrapped from fingertips to armpit in constricting bandage.
2) Keep as still as possible.
3) Get to a hospital.
david p.
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Originally posted by aversion
hehe, remind me to take the spray on tan mext time!
That orange tan color'll turn off any self-respecting predator.
And potential mammalian dates as well, but what'd ya rather be, celibate or snake chow?
Don't answer that.
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I've only ever seen one (wild) snake in melbourne, it was a black snake. But in queensland I had my fair go at chopping afew brown snakes heads off with a machete.
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