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Helped a young rattlesnake cross the highway earlier

Posted on 5/10/26 at 11:55 am
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
3432 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 11:55 am
Driving on a somewhat lightly traveled 4-lane highway I see a young(ish) rattlesnake making its way across the first lane. Through a series of u-turns, driving slow, and flashers on at one point I was able to help it get all the way across the road. This was in a rural area and I never got out of the truck.

Good looking snake, appeared only have a few rattles.

Does anyone else here do stuff like this?
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
24242 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 11:55 am to
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Does anyone else here do stuff like this?


#Paging Tigrrdad
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134920 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:00 pm to
It went on to bite a father of three, leaving a widow and orphans.


When on snake death row, it said "if only weagle had went upon his way and let the inevitable happen, a grieving widow wouldn't be drowning her sorrows in cheap gin."
This post was edited on 5/10/26 at 12:04 pm
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
103488 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:01 pm to
I make sure to swerve and run over them
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
10349 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:32 pm to
Is there a rattlesnake shortage that I'm unaware of?
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired - 31 years
Member since Feb 2019
6533 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:38 pm to
snakes re beneficial to the ecosystem. Their main diet is rodents, which cause more damage than snakes. If in a rural area, I let venomous snakes pass, if in a populated are, I dispatch venomous snakes. Never harm a non venomous.
Posted by Turnblad85
Member since Sep 2022
5813 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:41 pm to
write a book about it and I'll read it
Posted by Lowdermilk
Lowdermilk Beach
Member since Aug 2024
1162 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:41 pm to
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Helped a young rattlesnake cross the highway earlier


You're an idiot.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
57161 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:45 pm to
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It went on to bite a father of three, leaving a widow and orphans.


The idiot father tried to kill it and ended up getting bit, whereas if he had have let it go on its way he wouldnt have gotten fatally injured.
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
12801 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:47 pm to
I do it with turtles.
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10617 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:55 pm to
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Does anyone else here do stuff like this?


I tried to help one that was stuck under a rock the other day.

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Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
12801 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 12:56 pm to
I tried to help one that was stuck under a rock the other day.
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HOT DAMN...that made me jump!
Posted by CR4090
Member since Apr 2023
10116 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:01 pm to
Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
11317 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:01 pm to
I hope all of the would be tik tokers thinking about making a snake handling video were paying attention to just how fast that snake struck him.

They are faster than you can possibly think about reacting to, especially if you have been downing your White Claws and taking gummies.
Posted by PensaTigers
Pensacola
Member since Sep 2018
3501 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:06 pm to
Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8.
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27843 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:13 pm to
Always amazes me. If there is any truth to Australian life TV shows. It appears city area, Australian Brown. Rural area black snake. Really rural, taipan.
Posted by OceanMan
Member since Mar 2010
23363 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:22 pm to
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HOT DAMN...that made me jump!


I saw it earlier today and had the same reaction
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
9979 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:24 pm to
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fr33manator


Write us a Rap about this.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
11040 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:26 pm to
Watch this movie. You will like the ending and it’s a great movie anyway. Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda.

This post was edited on 5/10/26 at 1:27 pm
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132291 posts
Posted on 5/10/26 at 1:28 pm to
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I do it with turtles.


I will stop and pick a turtle up and move to ditch
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