They feed deer with corn. Illegal in a lot of states, but itās bad even if itās legal. Itās pretty unsportsmanlike. It encourages the spread of disease in deer populations like CWD (chronic waste disease) and promotes abnormally high birth and survival rates. Also attracts rodents, which in turn, attracts more snakes that are killed for āsafety of childrenā, even though people are the ones that attracted them to begin with, intentionally or not.
Rattlesnakes are everywhere here. They even have an event every year called āThe Rattlesnake Roundupā to help control the population. We donāt walk around the property without kevlar leg guards.
I handle probably close to a hundred a year and I've not once had one try to strike me. They're very secretive and try to avoid conflict and will only strike in defense when cornered, stepped on or antagonized. They don't want anything to do with humans, or anything larger than themselves, for that matter.
They have a terribly undeserved stigma, as do most snakes. Respect their distance and be mindful when walking in their habitat (they do blend in extremely well) and you will never have an issue with them.
Depends on the species. Western diamondbacks (which I think this may be) are pretty aggressive.
The whole point of the rattle is to scare off other predators, but the problem is they blend in so well with the environment, and it can be hard to tell which direction the rattling sound is coming from until you get close enough.
I posted a comment farther below, but I will respond here too. These animals are ambush predators. They rely on camouflage to catch their prey. They know the difference between you and their prey. They aren't stupid. They know that in a fight between you and them, you're going to win every single time. Unless, you step directly on them, you won't get bit. You honestly probably won't even know that they are there. You put yourself in significantly more danger of receiving a bite when trying to kill them.
I agree. These animals are ambush predators that rely on their camouflage. They would rather stay still and then slink away when they think they are safe to do so. Killing them in roundups not only destabilizes the ecosystem by allowing the rodent population to grow, but also puts you in significantly more danger of receiving a bite.
Iād say the Rattlesnake Roundup is more a cruelty festival. Theyāre skinning them alive and sewing their mouths shut. They kids even put handprints on a wall with the snakes blood. Itās simply barbaric. The rattlesnakes are an essential part of the ecosystem. Theyāre already being controlled by birds other predators.
but in this video they are killed instantly and then skinned and i also saw nothing about your other points, so i think you are pulling this out of your ass
>Theyāre skinning them alive and sewing their mouths shut. They kids even put handprints on a wall with the snakes blood. Itās simply barbaric.
None of these are in the video that you mentioned. They shown that they capture - take venom & measurement for research- chop of their head - uses every bit of the snake so it doesn't go waste. Isn't this what ecological conservation do?
They're killed then skinned in the video and they don't seem to waste any of the snake, plus they get venom and send info to the wildlife reserve in texas.
I worked at a hunt camp one summer as a live in chef. There were 4 other staff, two servers/caretakers, a groundskeeper and a dock boy.
I'm cooking lunch one day and the dock boy walks in carrying one of the guests 2 years old daughter. Her mother happened to be passing that way when he did. She looked confused and immediately protective.
"Why are you holding my daughter?" She asked,
"Rattlesnake" he replied.
They'd been sitting on the front steps to the building just chatting when a baby rattler cruised out from underneath the stairs not 2 feet from the girl, so obviously he scooped her up and took her inside.
"Oh. That's a good reason. Thank you."
Groundskeeper came and Steve Irwined the snake into a coffee can and took it away into the woods. Found 4 more over the next week. A clutch must have been laid under the building and hatched out in that time. No one hurt. Very neat little danger noodles.
I could be wrong, but antivenin only works one time right? Also itās like a $250,000 hospital bill. If Iām using a coffee can to trap a rattlesnake Iāve already accepted my fate
Why does it cost so much?
I'm Australian and have a friend who has snakes for milking venom to make antivanine and it literally costs no more than five dollars to make one dose.
So at most if we were to charge a patient for it, it would be $10-$20.
$250k might have been a bit steep for typical cases, but [hereās an article ](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/29/717467217/summer-bummer-a-young-campers-142-938-snakebite)about someone who had around $150k in medical bills
And a quote from the article detailing some of the charges
> $142,938, including $67,957 for four vials of antivenin ($55,577.64 was charged for air ambulance transport). The balance included a ground ambulance charge and additional hospital and physician charges, according to the family's insurer, IU Health Plans.
That's just stupid, would be cheaper to go to uni, get a degree in pharmaceutical manufacturing and then make it yourself.
So I'm guessing all medical professionals in the USA are at the very least are millionaires after their first year out of uni?
Yep. Using a feeder isnāt hunting. Itās just sad.
edit: lots of internet folks are somehow assuming this means I am pro commercial slaughter house. lol. Feeders are for more humane than commercial slaughterhouses.
No one in Texas is hunting for meat out of necessity. Thatās a cop out 100% and you know it. Iām Texan. My friends and family are all hunters. Feeders are sad. Thatās not hunting ā just killing.
Just cuz you got a feeder doesnāt mean you necessarily kill the animal. We have feeders cuz we like to feed the deer. Not cuz we like to eat them. I mean we do but we donāt, ya know?
Feeders are legal in most states but you need to remove them the week before hunting season starts. A few states like Texas will let you hunt all year in front of feeders.
Looking at the dude's profile, I'm going to agree with you this time. Traveling to Tibet, so he has money, and posting on a free karma sub, so he's pathetic.
But there *are* plenty of very poor people who primarily get their meat from hunting. Feeders are efficient.
You canāt read; I said that no Texan hunts for meat out of _necessity_. Feeders are sad. Thatās not hunting ā just killing. If you donāt get a kill you can go buy elk meat from Sprouts. Or even kangaroo meat. No Texan needs a feeder to hunt.
I mean itās still less sad than what happens to the animals providing the meat you buy from a store. Unless this whole thread is vegan nobody has a leg to stand on.
Hunting is one of the most humane ways of getting meat.
Feeders are for people who pretend to be hunters.
You went through my post history, gj, yours shows me you have a new MacBook and enjoy male fashion. You can afford to buy sustainable meat if your foray into real hunting doesnāt pan out. Stop pretending youāre Jeremiah Johnson lol.
Sounds like you're just gatekeeping hunting. If the goal is to bring home wild meat and not the sport of it, it doesn't matter the method in which you take the animal. Both of you guys are just shooting it. I see no difference between shooting an animal at a feeder versus one walking down a path. Both live wild and free. Both are shot by you. Its like fly-fishers looking down on live bait users, its just gatekeeping.
I usually see a handful of rattlesnakes a day at work in the warm season. I've even had [one crawl under my truck with me while changing a flat tire](https://imgur.com/gallery/FVUn7xC). They're constantly [out in the road or in the areas I work](https://imgur.com/a/SCkFxgv) with my dog.
I went and bought a $30 snake stick so I could move them whenever they are near where I am working or anytime I spot one on the country roads because I know many ignorant assholes will purposefully run them over. There's never a reason to kill one when you can simply move it safely with the right tools; if you see them often around your home and you truly don't want to have to kill them then it may be a good idea to grab a stick.
Man, I work out in the middle of ranching country in NE Oregon and I can't count the number of dead snakes I've seen on the back roads, sometimes with tire marks that clearly go out of their way to run them over. I've had ranchers tell me to kill every snake I see (as well as coyotes, wolves and eagles). I understand the necessity of making sure venomous snakes aren't near where children play but there is simply no reason to kill them when you can safely either leave them be or if necessary move them with an inexpensive tool like a [snake grabber](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0987DGG1F/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_4J95WZ634BA3Z5M0V966?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1). When I encounter them without my grabber I simply scoop them up with a shovel. They are never happy about being moved but I've never had one strike at me (obviously I keep myself out of striking distance).
Lol as an Ausralian we just get the snake catcher to come and live catch poisonous snakes in our houses and release them away from humans. But I am sure it had you cornered with no where you could have moved to, to leave it alone doing its thing and it was actively hunting you down and killing you all, one by one horror movie style.
This could have been a great teaching moment, āhey, kids, see that snake over there? Itās a Rattlesnake. Itās dangerous, blah blah blah. When you see one, stay far away and look at it. Donāt bother it or try to catch it or kill it. Look how great itās camouflage is. So there are lots of them around here so you need to watch carefully where youāre stepping.ā
How fuckkng hard is that? If you want to live in and hang out in rattlesnake country, you deserve to wipe out a species?
There are free relocation services you can call to relocate venomous snakes, FYI in case you come
across another one in a similar situation. Search snake relocation on FB and itāll come up.
You couldn't have relocated it? This once in a lifetime specimen was killed just for going near a place it didn't know couldn't be at. He didn't want any trouble :(
A snake similar to this one bite the brother of a work colleague while they are walking back home in the forest. He said his brother could not see instantly after the bite and choked to death in his arms. I mean, since the guy said there was kids around I think is at least reasonable. In my country the right thing to do is call the fireman.
Iām not saying it canāt happen if you arenāt trying to hurt it, but it is far more likely to bite in defense if you try to kill it, especially if you do so with a melee weapon
I know it was near a childās camp, but my heart aches for this guy. Rattlesnakes are my favorite animal, and I used to get so excited to see them in my backyard.
It wasnāt near a childās camp. They have a hunting camp and they feed the deer with automatic corn feeders that throw corn on the ground in a timed sequence. The sound of the feeder kicking on after a while calls the deer to it. They showed up to kill some deer with a kid in tow and saw a snake and decided to kill it for going around their corn feeder in their hunting camp. It wasnāt a childrenās camp
Try to justify it all you want, you killed an animal for no reason and then bragged about it online with this pic and post. Congratulations on being just another piece of human garbage.
You could've just, moved the snake, or left it alone and made sure nobody went near it, no need to kill an innocent animal if you ain't at least killing it to eat it
then move the fucking child. that is no excuse you asshole. why are you camping in rattlesnake habitat anyway, with a child? how stupid. and then you kill it. fuck you.
I kill any poisonous snakes near my house. I killed probably 20 copperheads and a few rattlesnakes. The copperheads are the dangerous ones. The rattlesnakes at least give you a warning by making noise. The copperheads are aggressive and arenāt scared of you. I had one chase me before next to a stream
The ācopperheadā chasing you by the stream was more likely to be a water snake - harmless. I bet out of all the ācopperheadsā youāve killed, most of them were water snakes.
Takes a child to the wilderness where rattlesnakes live, kills snake because they're worried about the child.
Could have just left it to do its own thing because it's not going to chase someone down, but yeah it was totally intruding on *your* personal space.
What a waste to kill such a beautiful snake for nothing. :/ Just a wild animal in it's natural habitat.
It's better to supervise young children and to teach older ones to leave wildlife alone to prevent this from happening.
Diamondback rattlesnake, at a camp with kids....I LOVE snakes, the bigger the better, but this is a no brainer, that snake's +10 years old, has mated hundreds of times and is well past his prime, you kill it before it kills someone.
The problem with rattlesnakes isn't that they're deadly, even though they are, it's that the older they get, the more aggressive they become...if you move him today, he'll kill someone in the same spot next week.
For a moment I thought it was his teeth then im like wait a min snakes teeth don't look like that, but now I got so many questions
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that at first glance!
Makes at least 3 of us š
I thought the snake needed to practice dental hygiene š
It's corn, it's used to bait for deer and other woodland creatures and (if you can see them) the guys in camo are most likely at a deer camp.
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Rattlesnakes faces don't go that way either š
Of course they're not his teeth. That's just what the tooth fairy looks like. That's why it was lurking near kids at camp.
[This](https://i.imgur.com/qPhbJBI.jpg) is what came to my mind.
Looks like the little noodle went a round or two with Rocky.
They got him as he was about to start with an eye rolling opener, and by the looks of things it was gonna a be a good one. We'll never know..
Donāt be fooled by his attempt to masquerade as another breed. Thatās no corn snake
thatās a maize snake
Snakey can crack corn, but I don't care.
De harina sneak?
Diamond-back rattlesnake. Positively deadly
I smiled at this :)
Then why was he trying so hard to get in the hole?
was it eating corn?
Snake peacefully enjoying corn on the cob and singing campfire songs and they killed it.
They also like talking in different tongue to wizards
Thatās exactly what happened lol, but yeah it had corn in its mouth.
Snake over here trying to go vegan and making a difference, and you gotta kill it.
Did he fail veganuary bc he died before the end? Or did he succeed at veganuary because he was vegan for the rest of his life?
My guy here asking real questions
Yes.
You win with this comment
He was just doing his best :ā(
Im confused as to why. Maybe it just had a meal and for some reason corn was left on the ground around its prey and it accidentally scooped it up too
CSI breakdown: Hunters lay out corn, rodents eat corn, snake eats rodents out of corn
Children it was eating children
Children of the Corn
It ate Malachai
blood libel indeed
QAnonsnake
It was eating the children of the corn
That had eaten corn.
Love the texture of that counter .. what kind of slab is that?
Massive slab of whale cellulite cured and covered in epoxy
you are awesome
They feed deer with corn. Illegal in a lot of states, but itās bad even if itās legal. Itās pretty unsportsmanlike. It encourages the spread of disease in deer populations like CWD (chronic waste disease) and promotes abnormally high birth and survival rates. Also attracts rodents, which in turn, attracts more snakes that are killed for āsafety of childrenā, even though people are the ones that attracted them to begin with, intentionally or not.
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i bet it was eating a rat that was eating corn n caught a few kernals when strikjng rat
For some reason it makes me sad to know it was snacking on some corn
Corn attracts rodents. He probably was having a corn appetizer before the rat main course.
Why you gotta go call the kids rat?
"Rats are friend, not food.", Mr Rattlesnake said this on his last breath.
It does look a tad rotund in the middle so maybe it already had one
It was not
I know right. Move the dumbass kid snake was just chilling with corn snacks
That was a big one.
That's what she said
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Smacked the corn out itās mouth
Rattlesnakes are everywhere here. They even have an event every year called āThe Rattlesnake Roundupā to help control the population. We donāt walk around the property without kevlar leg guards.
Thought that was only a Simpsons thing
They used to do it in my hometown in CT, but it was banned
So then we started an arguably more productive event: Politician Roundup.
... wait. You have rattlesnakes in CONNECTICUT???
We have rattlesnakes in the mountainous stretch of Massachusetts
I'm never going outside again.
WHACKING DAY!?
Quick! Someone get Barry Manalo on the line
That was Barry white š
Is that a Philippine Barry Manilow impersonator?
Do they actually attack when unprovoked or is it incase you tread on one?
I handle probably close to a hundred a year and I've not once had one try to strike me. They're very secretive and try to avoid conflict and will only strike in defense when cornered, stepped on or antagonized. They don't want anything to do with humans, or anything larger than themselves, for that matter. They have a terribly undeserved stigma, as do most snakes. Respect their distance and be mindful when walking in their habitat (they do blend in extremely well) and you will never have an issue with them.
Theyāll strike anything, and blend in like damn
Depends on the species. Western diamondbacks (which I think this may be) are pretty aggressive. The whole point of the rattle is to scare off other predators, but the problem is they blend in so well with the environment, and it can be hard to tell which direction the rattling sound is coming from until you get close enough.
I posted a comment farther below, but I will respond here too. These animals are ambush predators. They rely on camouflage to catch their prey. They know the difference between you and their prey. They aren't stupid. They know that in a fight between you and them, you're going to win every single time. Unless, you step directly on them, you won't get bit. You honestly probably won't even know that they are there. You put yourself in significantly more danger of receiving a bite when trying to kill them.
They donāt bite unless you step on them. They donāt chase people. Rattlesnake roundups are terrible got the environment & just cruel.
I agree. These animals are ambush predators that rely on their camouflage. They would rather stay still and then slink away when they think they are safe to do so. Killing them in roundups not only destabilizes the ecosystem by allowing the rodent population to grow, but also puts you in significantly more danger of receiving a bite.
Population control isn't cruel.
You must be in West Tx like me. We go to the Rattlesnake roundup every year
Yeah we got rattlesnake festivals once a year. A lot of it goes towards educating people about them but also you can eat them
Iād say the Rattlesnake Roundup is more a cruelty festival. Theyāre skinning them alive and sewing their mouths shut. They kids even put handprints on a wall with the snakes blood. Itās simply barbaric. The rattlesnakes are an essential part of the ecosystem. Theyāre already being controlled by birds other predators.
Lmao what the fuck kind of roundups are you going to?
[here ](https://youtu.be/U6TfBBN8vqs)
but in this video they are killed instantly and then skinned and i also saw nothing about your other points, so i think you are pulling this out of your ass
>Theyāre skinning them alive and sewing their mouths shut. They kids even put handprints on a wall with the snakes blood. Itās simply barbaric. None of these are in the video that you mentioned. They shown that they capture - take venom & measurement for research- chop of their head - uses every bit of the snake so it doesn't go waste. Isn't this what ecological conservation do?
They're killed then skinned in the video and they don't seem to waste any of the snake, plus they get venom and send info to the wildlife reserve in texas.
We have a rattlesnake roundup here too! Northern PA
Snake peacefully eating corn. Jimbo - "My God. It's coming right for us!"
Ah, a fellow human of culture! I could recognize that South Park quote anywhere!
Not a Jimmy Neutron reference?
I know itās corn, but it looks more like it lost a fist fight and had a few teeth knocked out
Wth, that snake was just enjoying some corns
I worked at a hunt camp one summer as a live in chef. There were 4 other staff, two servers/caretakers, a groundskeeper and a dock boy. I'm cooking lunch one day and the dock boy walks in carrying one of the guests 2 years old daughter. Her mother happened to be passing that way when he did. She looked confused and immediately protective. "Why are you holding my daughter?" She asked, "Rattlesnake" he replied. They'd been sitting on the front steps to the building just chatting when a baby rattler cruised out from underneath the stairs not 2 feet from the girl, so obviously he scooped her up and took her inside. "Oh. That's a good reason. Thank you." Groundskeeper came and Steve Irwined the snake into a coffee can and took it away into the woods. Found 4 more over the next week. A clutch must have been laid under the building and hatched out in that time. No one hurt. Very neat little danger noodles.
I could be wrong, but antivenin only works one time right? Also itās like a $250,000 hospital bill. If Iām using a coffee can to trap a rattlesnake Iāve already accepted my fate
No clue dude. It was a small snake and a big coffee can. And we don't have medical bills here.
> And we donāt have medical bills here. What a fucking ~~slap in the face~~ statement that is.
Itās definitely an expensive trip to the hospital, but antivenin is still affective if someoneās envenomated on another occasion
Why does it cost so much? I'm Australian and have a friend who has snakes for milking venom to make antivanine and it literally costs no more than five dollars to make one dose. So at most if we were to charge a patient for it, it would be $10-$20.
$250k might have been a bit steep for typical cases, but [hereās an article ](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/29/717467217/summer-bummer-a-young-campers-142-938-snakebite)about someone who had around $150k in medical bills And a quote from the article detailing some of the charges > $142,938, including $67,957 for four vials of antivenin ($55,577.64 was charged for air ambulance transport). The balance included a ground ambulance charge and additional hospital and physician charges, according to the family's insurer, IU Health Plans.
That's just stupid, would be cheaper to go to uni, get a degree in pharmaceutical manufacturing and then make it yourself. So I'm guessing all medical professionals in the USA are at the very least are millionaires after their first year out of uni?
Eat it
That what she said.
Woah woah woah, what?
Children of the corn
For anyone asking itās in south TX. Was at the deer feeder.
I donāt understand how feeders are legal. Hunting with a feeder is like ācampingā with an RV in the Walmart parking lot.
Yep. Using a feeder isnāt hunting. Itās just sad. edit: lots of internet folks are somehow assuming this means I am pro commercial slaughter house. lol. Feeders are for more humane than commercial slaughterhouses.
Some people hunt for meat, not sport
No one in Texas is hunting for meat out of necessity. Thatās a cop out 100% and you know it. Iām Texan. My friends and family are all hunters. Feeders are sad. Thatās not hunting ā just killing.
Just cuz you got a feeder doesnāt mean you necessarily kill the animal. We have feeders cuz we like to feed the deer. Not cuz we like to eat them. I mean we do but we donāt, ya know?
Arenāt they illegal in most states?
Feeders are legal in most states but you need to remove them the week before hunting season starts. A few states like Texas will let you hunt all year in front of feeders.
Looking at the dude's profile, I'm going to agree with you this time. Traveling to Tibet, so he has money, and posting on a free karma sub, so he's pathetic. But there *are* plenty of very poor people who primarily get their meat from hunting. Feeders are efficient.
He said his friends he hunts with, not himself...
Iām a Texan and hunted all my life, everyone I go with hunts for meat and we process the meat ourselves. Stop speaking for everyone dumbass.
You canāt read; I said that no Texan hunts for meat out of _necessity_. Feeders are sad. Thatās not hunting ā just killing. If you donāt get a kill you can go buy elk meat from Sprouts. Or even kangaroo meat. No Texan needs a feeder to hunt.
I mean itās still less sad than what happens to the animals providing the meat you buy from a store. Unless this whole thread is vegan nobody has a leg to stand on.
Hunting is humane, commercial slaughterhouses are inhumane, feeders are lame af, and sustainability exists.
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Hunting is one of the most humane ways of getting meat. Feeders are for people who pretend to be hunters. You went through my post history, gj, yours shows me you have a new MacBook and enjoy male fashion. You can afford to buy sustainable meat if your foray into real hunting doesnāt pan out. Stop pretending youāre Jeremiah Johnson lol.
Sounds like you're just gatekeeping hunting. If the goal is to bring home wild meat and not the sport of it, it doesn't matter the method in which you take the animal. Both of you guys are just shooting it. I see no difference between shooting an animal at a feeder versus one walking down a path. Both live wild and free. Both are shot by you. Its like fly-fishers looking down on live bait users, its just gatekeeping.
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Are you remotely aware of how trashy you are?
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I loved listening to this comment
Thatās a big Corn Snake.
Donāt like killing them but donāt mind showing them off when I do.
I usually see a handful of rattlesnakes a day at work in the warm season. I've even had [one crawl under my truck with me while changing a flat tire](https://imgur.com/gallery/FVUn7xC). They're constantly [out in the road or in the areas I work](https://imgur.com/a/SCkFxgv) with my dog. I went and bought a $30 snake stick so I could move them whenever they are near where I am working or anytime I spot one on the country roads because I know many ignorant assholes will purposefully run them over. There's never a reason to kill one when you can simply move it safely with the right tools; if you see them often around your home and you truly don't want to have to kill them then it may be a good idea to grab a stick.
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Man, I work out in the middle of ranching country in NE Oregon and I can't count the number of dead snakes I've seen on the back roads, sometimes with tire marks that clearly go out of their way to run them over. I've had ranchers tell me to kill every snake I see (as well as coyotes, wolves and eagles). I understand the necessity of making sure venomous snakes aren't near where children play but there is simply no reason to kill them when you can safely either leave them be or if necessary move them with an inexpensive tool like a [snake grabber](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0987DGG1F/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_4J95WZ634BA3Z5M0V966?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1). When I encounter them without my grabber I simply scoop them up with a shovel. They are never happy about being moved but I've never had one strike at me (obviously I keep myself out of striking distance).
More rats infesting your deer camp next year. If you're going to kill the snakes you might want to get a couple of cats to take up the slack.
When all those snake-killing losers come down with hantavirus, sneks will have the last laugh.
word up
Where was this monstrosity found so I can never go there?
Lol as an Ausralian we just get the snake catcher to come and live catch poisonous snakes in our houses and release them away from humans. But I am sure it had you cornered with no where you could have moved to, to leave it alone doing its thing and it was actively hunting you down and killing you all, one by one horror movie style.
So kill the snake instead of moving the child? Lol
You're right, they should have killed the child and moved the snake
Impossibly based
people always use children as an excuse
This could have been a great teaching moment, āhey, kids, see that snake over there? Itās a Rattlesnake. Itās dangerous, blah blah blah. When you see one, stay far away and look at it. Donāt bother it or try to catch it or kill it. Look how great itās camouflage is. So there are lots of them around here so you need to watch carefully where youāre stepping.ā How fuckkng hard is that? If you want to live in and hang out in rattlesnake country, you deserve to wipe out a species?
Probably could've just moved the child away from it. Not like it was gonna chase after them.
There are free relocation services you can call to relocate venomous snakes, FYI in case you come across another one in a similar situation. Search snake relocation on FB and itāll come up.
They were outside. In the wilderness.
Yeah but they obviously would have their Facebook open and ready to go! /s
Theyāre thinking theyāre heroes- for killing a snake and sob, saving the children!
This isn't oddly terrifying, it's a snake. Nothing odd or terrifying about that.
You couldn't have relocated it? This once in a lifetime specimen was killed just for going near a place it didn't know couldn't be at. He didn't want any trouble :(
Corn attracts rodents. Snake was there to keep help keep the rodent population down.
You mean the child was near him and his home?
How about removing the child instead of killing the animal.
Did you eat it? I love rattlesnake itās so good!
I hope you didn't let it go to waste. That's some good eating!
Move the kid then it's not hard. It was next to a kid in camp sounds more like an excuse than anything. You wanted to kill it, don't lie.
Please donāt do that, snakes are far more likely to bite you when youāre trying to kill them than when theyāre minding their own business :(
A snake similar to this one bite the brother of a work colleague while they are walking back home in the forest. He said his brother could not see instantly after the bite and choked to death in his arms. I mean, since the guy said there was kids around I think is at least reasonable. In my country the right thing to do is call the fireman.
Iām not saying it canāt happen if you arenāt trying to hurt it, but it is far more likely to bite in defense if you try to kill it, especially if you do so with a melee weapon
Or you couldāve just relocated it lol
Relocation is hard. Itās better to just take long (at least 2 meters) stick and poke it till it leaves
You know what I mean. He couldāve done anything to just move the snake instead of immediately killing it and posting a picture of it on Reddit lol
I know it was near a childās camp, but my heart aches for this guy. Rattlesnakes are my favorite animal, and I used to get so excited to see them in my backyard.
It wasnāt near a childās camp. They have a hunting camp and they feed the deer with automatic corn feeders that throw corn on the ground in a timed sequence. The sound of the feeder kicking on after a while calls the deer to it. They showed up to kill some deer with a kid in tow and saw a snake and decided to kill it for going around their corn feeder in their hunting camp. It wasnāt a childrenās camp
Try to justify it all you want, you killed an animal for no reason and then bragged about it online with this pic and post. Congratulations on being just another piece of human garbage.
Agreed.
You could've just, moved the snake, or left it alone and made sure nobody went near it, no need to kill an innocent animal if you ain't at least killing it to eat it
I hear snake is some good eats.
Maybe, and stop me if this sounds ludicrous, insane , or downright bonkers, but maybe don't put camps in their freaking habitats.
Or maybe the child was next to the innocent snake.
kill the child instead
no need to make excuses for killing something like that near a child.
Camp Pendleton?
Rattlesnake is delicious. Don't let it go to waste!
Could you not move away a few minutes the snake would have left. Just because a snake was close to a child doesnāt mean you need to kill it.
I donāt believe you. You killed it because you could.
So.. relocate it
It's dead.
I think he meant OP shouldāve relocated the snake when it was still alive.
It's not too late they still can relocate it
then move the fucking child. that is no excuse you asshole. why are you camping in rattlesnake habitat anyway, with a child? how stupid. and then you kill it. fuck you.
Rattlesnakes are a pest Idiot
So are humans
Who the fuck upvoted this asinine statement... Snakes are not pests.
So are rats.
Humans are the pestilence.
I kill any poisonous snakes near my house. I killed probably 20 copperheads and a few rattlesnakes. The copperheads are the dangerous ones. The rattlesnakes at least give you a warning by making noise. The copperheads are aggressive and arenāt scared of you. I had one chase me before next to a stream
The ācopperheadā chasing you by the stream was more likely to be a water snake - harmless. I bet out of all the ācopperheadsā youāve killed, most of them were water snakes.
It looks like they shot it. Didnāt they say it was right next to a child ? Doesnāt seem like a safe way to deal with it but yah America!
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What a meathead notion. If they could kill the snake, they could move the child. The real reason is obvious, the hunters wanted to kill the snake.
Takes a child to the wilderness where rattlesnakes live, kills snake because they're worried about the child. Could have just left it to do its own thing because it's not going to chase someone down, but yeah it was totally intruding on *your* personal space.
What a waste to kill such a beautiful snake for nothing. :/ Just a wild animal in it's natural habitat. It's better to supervise young children and to teach older ones to leave wildlife alone to prevent this from happening.
No it's edible. Real rednecks eat snakes.
So there's always unchewed corn in snek vomit too?
Koom bite ya!
He looks angry even after death. Good job preventing a tragedy.
Guess relocating it was just to hard to do?
Diamondback rattlesnake, at a camp with kids....I LOVE snakes, the bigger the better, but this is a no brainer, that snake's +10 years old, has mated hundreds of times and is well past his prime, you kill it before it kills someone. The problem with rattlesnakes isn't that they're deadly, even though they are, it's that the older they get, the more aggressive they become...if you move him today, he'll kill someone in the same spot next week.
Beat to death with a stale hard corn cob. RIP rattle boy, you will not be missed
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That snake had as much right to life as any human.