[SEL] rattle snake in my playroom

[Roger DiRuscio]

I suspect you knew he was a rattler. They dont like to be messed with much.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Tonneberger" <flywheelin at hotmail.com>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: [SEL] rattle snake in my playroom


> Hi Everybody,
>
> Not sure what kind of snake this is but Shirley about stepped on it while
> she was going out to hang up some laundry on the clothes line this past
> Saturday afternoon. It was about 16 inches long. After poking at it with a
> broom handle to get him to go on his way he sorta coiled up, raised his
> head, and hissed a few times. You can see him donig this in the second
> picture. I was able to dangle him off the broom handle and put him out in
> the weeds. He never did try to bite at the broom handle.  Shirley watched
> from faaaaar away as she is very afraid of snakes. When I get time I'm
going
> to try and see what type of snake it was.
>
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/luket/temp/mvc-005s.jpg
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/luket/temp/mvc-008s.jpg
>
> Luke Tonneberger
> Rockford, Michigan
> USA
>
> ========================
>
> >From: "Glenn Wilson" <wilson at stny.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> >To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> >Subject: [SEL] rattle snake in my playroom
> >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:19:23 -0400
> >
> >Talk about snakes and buzzing..... I live in upstate NY and we just found
> >our FIRST ever Timber Rattlesnake (we belive it is) in our playroom.
> >We think it may have come north in the 60HP Fairbanks Morse engine
> >but have no way to know anything for sure... it is still loose in the
> >playroom
> >as I wasn't ready to catch it the first time it showed up. There is no
> >doubt in my mind how well it rattles! It is loud and clear. It is brown
> >with
> >diamond patterns all over its body but they didn't seem to be outlined
> >in white like a diamond rattler. Its head looks normal width like a
> >milksnake
> >and its tail didn't have the characteristic segmented rattler - its tail
is
> >about 2" long and hard and pointed and dark brown to dark red. The
> >snake is a good 1" in diameter or maybe a little more and about 24"
> >inches long. We watched it go down behind a file cabinent and we
> >haven't seen it since. hmm.
> >Glenn Wilson
> >
>
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