Snake stories

[hank4elk]

Timely.
I went to town and found 2 gopher(bull) snakes and a king in the road. The 2 got away when I stopped but caught the king. Put it in a tool bucket.
A mile down the road there was a little Mojave green. He coiled up and hissed/struck at me as I drove by...all one foot of him.
Another mile away I came across 2ft. prairie rattler near the cattle guard. He went into the pit and as I drove over it the whole thing was buzzing...looked out my window and there was a half dozen in there buzzing away.

I let the king loose near a woodpile when I got home.

 

[Gellar]

I have 6-10 snakes I take care of work. I usually have a black rat snake, a bull snake, a hognose snake, a fox snake, a milk snake and 1-3 timber rattle snakes and occasionally a rando snake that I think is cool.

A few years ago I was cleaning the cage of the black rat snake just after we opened to the public, 8 am or so. When I clean the rat snakes cage I just put him on the ground and he’s free to do his thing. This one was 8’ long. He doesn’t go far. Past the cage is a gift shop and a few offices and a small meeting room. The snake is stretched out across the path to the gift shop. About 8:10 a group of 7 women and 1 guy walk in. I did not recognize any of the ladies, but I just glanced out of the corner of my eye. They are dressed nicely but not of the ordinary for a group of women on a girls weekend. The guy is dressed in street clothes, but he’s of a muscular build. He is in back of the women and the last one in the building. All off the women go directly to the gift shop stepping over and not noticing the 8’ black rat snake they stepped over. The guy walks to the snake, stops, points down at the snake and says, “Governor, did you see this?” This perks my attention and I immediately notice one of the women is the governor of Iowa. She looks to see what the guy is pointing at. Upon realizing she just stepped over a 8’ snake she runs to meeting room, slams the door and locks it. The guy, her security guard, about loses it hysterically laughing. She did not come back out until I had the snake put away.