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Offline beet1e

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« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2003, 10:43:08 AM »
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While that may be true, the reaction of a Texan vs. a Californian is a whole different matter....a Californian would run away from the snake like a schoolgirl
Most snakes will leave you alone if you let them alone. They're looking for small prey, and are not interested in anything human sized. They might attack if they feel cornered, but most will go away. One exception is the African black mamba, which will give chase...

US snakes are quite mild, compared to those of Africa, and Australia. :eek:
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« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2003, 11:01:05 AM »
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What was that like? Were you very ill? How long to recover?


I was in ICU for 14 hours. The venom from a black widow is a neurotoxin, it attacks your central nervous system and shuts it down. There is no communication in the body, there is no signal to any part of the body, your heart stops along with everything else. There is no antidote(back in 93 anyway), it's not like a snake bite where they use the venom as a cure.

I was being shot up with calcium, valume, and some other things. they wanted to give me  morphine but declined( I did not want to stay there overnight, and I knew morphine would secure that). I faded out twice( the last thing I heard was the flatline). After several hours my condition got better. I was still in alot of pain, but told them the pain was going away( so they would let me go home). After about 14 hours they agreed to let me go. They told me my back ( where the two bites occured) would peel real bad and that it would be normal. It killed a few layers of skin on my back. They wrote me out a prescription for valume and sent me home.
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(and I still say he wasn't trying to spell possum!)

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« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2003, 11:11:52 AM »
Wow, Sixpence. Beats my scorpion story. I was at a campsite in TX. There was no electricity to the washrooms, and it was dark. I stepped up to a hand basin, and was about to remove what I thought was a leaf in the basin, when a guy came in with a huge lantern and lit the place up like a football stadium. I said hi, and when I turned back to the basin I could see that the "leaf" was actually a scorpion. But not a really bad one - one of those sandy coloured things about 3 inches long. Probably would have been a bad sting though.
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« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2003, 01:16:34 PM »
Beet1e,  been stung a few times by scorpions here, 2-4 inches long, brown, dark brown strip down the back.  Stings is comparable to bee or hornet sting.  Only really dangerous if your allergic.  (Not saying I would intentionally let one of those little buggers sting me though)

Between May and Oct I find alot of scorpions around the house and inside.  One week we killed 11 in the house.
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« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2003, 01:24:36 PM »
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In any desert environment, you can expect the local fauna to find its way inside.


Brownwood isnt in a desert enviroment although it is in the middle of nowhere :)
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« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2003, 01:27:43 PM »
Last year I was at a July 4th race by the Suwanee River and went inside a port-o-john to do some last-minute bowel emptying.  Just about the time I got my pants down around my ankles and was squatting on the plastic donut, I looked down and saw a tan scorpion crawling by my shoe.  I killed it and didn't think twice about it.

Until I saw this thread.
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« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2003, 01:33:08 PM »
Ohhhhh Voss?    Where's old Voss.

 He can top you all!  ;)



 "US snakes are quite mild, compared to those of Africa, and Australia."

 Course they are Beetl1. US snakes have lived in a democracy and have endured civilisation for over two hundred years. There's little need for them "pounce," "stalk" and generally terrorize civilizians as they did in the old frontier days.
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« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2003, 01:36:17 PM »
MOST scorpions found in Texas are non-lethal, but hurt like hell. I was sitting in my chair watching TV once and felt a little tickle near my family jewels. When I scratched the tickle turned to HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! A scorpion had crawled up my pants leg.:eek: The little bastage stung me over a dozen times on my inner thigh while I was jumping around the living room like a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader at the Super Bowl and trying desperately to remove my pants.
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« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2003, 03:17:54 PM »
Hey MajTom,
Thats 1 heck-uva fishing hole Ya'll have down there in cedar creek.
You ever get to catch the sandies when they run or the BIG blues?Cought over 200 sandys last year & the year B-4.
Caught some big blues at lake palestine to.
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« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2003, 04:02:20 PM »
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do ya keep them in Wal-mart?


-snif- WalMart is for peasant Texas Rattlers. Ours hang out at Spago's.
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« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2003, 05:03:13 PM »
Was camping in Arkansas a few years ago. Woke up with a welt on the back of my thigh. Felt kinda sick for a day and the welt got huge. Think it took the better part of a year to fully heal and left a nasty scar. Musta been a Brown Recluse.
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« Reply #26 on: October 01, 2003, 05:14:41 PM »
Hmmm... I've never heard of a brown recluse leaving a welt.  Their bites are supposed to cause a flesh deadning reaction.  I've only known one person that was bitten by one... he ended up loosing half the meat off of his left palm (wouldn't let docs amputate his pinky and next finger over).

I've known several people that were bitten by black widows.  We had quite a few of them at our base in Idaho.  They were kinda like a bee sting... for some people there was a welt and nothing more, but for others there was more of an alergic reaction.  The chances of having an alergic reaction to a BW bite is a little higher than being alergic to bee stings.

Don't know much about sidewinder bites, but I've heard the same thing.  Most fatalities involve an alergic type reaction or multiple bites.

All I know about scorpion bites is that they can end a lucrative career flying F-16s for the CIA and cause brain cancer.

MiniD
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« Reply #27 on: October 01, 2003, 05:18:04 PM »
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Originally posted by Westy
Ohhhhh Voss?    Where's old Voss.

 He can top you all!  ;)



 "US snakes are quite mild, compared to those of Africa, and Australia."

 Course they are Beetl1. US snakes have lived in a democracy and have endured civilisation for over two hundred years. There's little need for them "pounce," "stalk" and generally terrorize civilizians as they did in the old frontier days.


This one time at band camp.......
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« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2003, 05:26:50 PM »
Mini, I don't know the size of the ones in Idaho, but the one in Jax, Fl. almost had me pushing daisies(it had the body of a good size bumble bee). And I didn't have an allergic reaction. I'll never live again where the insects can kill you.
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"My grandaddy always told me, "There are three things that'll put a good man down: Losin' a good woman, eatin' bad possum, or eatin' good possum."" - Holden McGroin

(and I still say he wasn't trying to spell possum!)

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« Reply #29 on: October 01, 2003, 05:47:33 PM »
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Hmmm... I've never heard of a brown recluse leaving a welt.  MiniD


Never saw it but based on this I think it was.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html

"A small white blister usually rises at the bite site surrounded by a large congested and swollen area."
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