Snake Defense

[Omag 2.0]

You bunch of prehistoric savages! It's a living animal were talking about here... Sure, I wouldn't wanna see that beast crawling around a suburb, but to unleash all our "mighty" weapons on it just shows what cruel beasts we really are...

I for one, think it's sad that the animal got caught in the fence. Yes, it's big, and yes it eats animals ( Humans do too, you know?), but as long as it doesn't strawl around in my back-guarden and stays in it's natural habitat, I'd leave it alone...

[BFMF]

It is an animal, but it's also not going to turn around and stay out of an area just because you ask it to. It's also a very dangerous animal that you wouldn't want to be around. The fact that it was killed by a fence means that it was probably trying to get into an area where it wasn't supposed to. Maybe there were young kids inside, you don't know.

I've seen a lot of wild animals, but they were mostly harmless and were more scared of me then I was of it. Unfortunantly, dangerous snakes like that don't fit into that category.

Sure, I would never go into the wild and start destroying them just to get rid of it(as much as I want to), but if something like that posed a threat to anyone, then yes, I wouldn't hesitate to kill it.

[Romulus111VADT]

It is an animal, but it's also not going to turn around and stay out of an area just because you ask it to. It's also a very dangerous animal that you wouldn't want to be around. The fact that it was killed by a fence means that it was probably trying to get into an area where it wasn't supposed to. Maybe there were young kids inside, you don't know.

I've seen a lot of wild animals, but they were mostly harmless and were more scared of me then I was of it. Unfortunantly, dangerous snakes like that don't fit into that category.

Sure, I would never go into the wild and start destroying them just to get rid of it(as much as I want to), but if something like that posed a threat to anyone, then yes, I wouldn't hesitate to kill it.

It had been constantly raiding the "Silent Valley Ranch in the Waterberg mountains of South Africa" and killing Impalas. They were not sure what had been killing off their herd until they put up the electric fence to try and keep what ever it was out. They were as surprised as anyone to find what had been killing their Impalas after cutting it open and finding a full grown Impala Ewe inside it.

You bunch of prehistoric savages! It's a living animal were talking about here... Sure, I wouldn't wanna see that beast crawling around a suburb, but to unleash all our "mighty" weapons on it just shows what cruel beasts we really are...

I for one, think it's sad that the animal got caught in the fence. Yes, it's big, and yes it eats animals ( Humans do too, you know?), but as long as it doesn't strawl around in my back-guarden and stays in it's natural habitat, I'd leave it alone...

I bet the Impala ewe that it had swallowed whole would tend to disagree with you. Being crushed to death and swallowed whole isn't the most pleasant way to die, I'm sure.  ;D

[Omag 2.0]

There's this whole up-side-down theory about this. One, the snake lives in its natural habitat. Two, humans invaded that habitat to set up a ranch to breed impala's. Snake likes impala's, now living in its habitat. Snake eats impala's. It's a natural thing people!

It's not like the snake, or other wild animals migrate into cities etc. they only go there if there is a source of food, often provided by man. If you get to live in the wild, you can expect wild animals.

Plus, I don't understand the reason why people always need to destroy everything that seems like a thread to them. Often it's just a matter of relocating the animal.

Oh well, that's my opinion anyway...  ;)

[Romulus111VADT]

[quote]There's this whole up-side-down theory about this. One, the snake lives in its natural habitat. Two, humans invaded that habitat to set up a ranch to breed impala's. Snake likes impala's, now living in its habitat. Snake eats impala's. It's a natural thing people!

It's not like the snake, or other wild animals migrate into cities etc. they only go there if there is a source of food, often provided by man. If you get to live in the wild, you can expect wild animals.

Plus, I don't understand the reason why people always need to destroy everything that seems like a thread to them. Often it's just a matter of relocating the animal.

Oh well, that's my opinion anyway...

[H]

1.It's not like the snake, or other wild animals migrate into cities etc. they only go there if there is a source of food, often provided by man. If you get to live in the wild, you can expect wild animals.
2. Plus, I don't understand the reason why people always need to destroy everything that seems like a thread to them. Often it's just a matter of relocating the animal.

For the first part, this has always been a shared world; at least, it's questionable as to which species was/were transported here from elsewhere .
Relating to the second part, relocating may not always work. Some animals can find their way back even after moves of hundreds of miles. As I was patching up a hole in my eaves, a squirrel (one of those familiar rats with a fluffy tail) was chattering away at me this past autumn. A bit later came the patter of tiny feet -- mice had gotten in between the roof and ceiling. Sometime after the snowfall, the patter of tiny feet seemed to disappear -- replaced by the thumping of larger feet: now I'm chattering at the squirrel that has chewed its way back in .

[Romulus111VADT]

We had a really small mouse get into our home once. My wife went to the kitchen and started screaming. I ran to see what was going on and this poor little mouse was sitting their scared $hitless. I rounded it up and disposed of it. I started LMAO and my wife asked me what was so funny. I told her seeing that little mouse sitting there scared to death and her standing there screaming. All I could imagine was her looking down and the mouse roaring like a lion. For all the screaming you'd have thought it was some gigantic beast bent on world domination....

[BFMF]

Plus, I don't understand the reason why people always need to destroy everything that seems like a thread to them.

We're humans, what can I say?

[Omag 2.0]

Army-guys may not respond to that!

[BFMF]

Engineers like explosives

See the quote in my signature area?

"There's nothing that can't be solved without the use of high explosives"

I'm a firm believer in that

[Romulus111VADT]

Yep, there are no problems that the appropriate amount of C-4 won't solve.

We once were sent to destroy a NVA outpost in a village.

My best friend was suppose to be a demolition expert...lmao...yea right.

I was on the outskirts of the village guarding his avenue of retreat and didn't see what he was using.

The dumbass used a 20 lb satchel charge on one hooch. It was blown up along with half the frigging village (very small- about 20 hooches) . When he got back to me and the charge went off. OMG darn wood, bamboo and all sorts of building materials came raining down. The hooches were extremely flimsy compared to normal housing in the US and 2 lbs would have been well more than enough. I asked him about what the hell he'd used and when he told me a 20 lb charge, I about rang his neck. I asked him about the tremendous amount of collateral damage and his comment was, "The others were collaborators".  ::)

[BFMF]

LOL. Atleast he got the job done

[beaky]

Very impressive...
Easy enough to avoid one of these; there are many people I'd sooner shoot than a snake who's just doing what he's supposed to do: crawl around and eat things that are smaller than he is, and too slow, naive, (or just plain dumb) to get away.  :)
 But I suppose if you're a coward and you're armed, killing it might make you feel better about yourself, I dunno.
 Not poking fun at anyone in particular here, I just take exception to the "kill it because you can" mentality, and I question the self-esteem of those whose first thought when confronted with a wild critter with sharp teeth is: where's my gun?
 But looking at this pic, I gotta say it again: snakes ain't too smart...
 

[Romulus111VADT]

Call it a military mentality, survival mentality, protecting small children that don't have the mental or physical ability to get out of the way of such dangers. Call it what you will, I kill things that can threaten the safety and well being of those that I love and care about. This includes any threat, even a human threat.

IMHO

[Woodlouse2002]

Maybe there were young kids inside, you don't know.

I would love to meet the man who keeps his children in with an electric fence.