Thread: Just had an encounter with a snake...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Just had an encounter with a snake...

It's hardly an encounter mate, when you're sat behind a Motocy taxi driver, hanging on to him for dear life, while using the poor guy as a human shield

Originally Posted by jks

He is an ugly bastard ;-)

Some would say beautiful, maybe in a huge glass tank they are, in my house then I would tend to agree with your description

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ I know, it was a bit pathetic. It wasn't scary though, more interesting; I'll be taking more care walking up the soi in me flipflops for the next few days though...

^^ that experience would be enough to have me running to the airport for a 1-way ticket home...

The FiL has a pair of geese around his house (lots of Cobras and King Cobras in that area) to protect the chickens, etc. They seem to do the job. When I build a house there, later this year, I'm gonna have to get meself a pair of geeze too, and take the cats, and but a baby meercat to bring up as part of the family...

I've been saying this for years....geese are the answer to all your critter or intruder troubles.

^ Walking around your land in that sarong probably scares off the local snakes anyways; mind you, it could attract the odd (and she'd have to be very odd...) female King Cobra in season...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ Walking around your land in that sarong probably scares off the local snakes anyways; mind you, it could attract the odd (and she'd have to be very odd...) female King Cobra in season...

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

I'll be taking more care walking up the soi in me flipflops for the next few days though...

Try running

Talking of vipers...

Once, on Samui, me and a mate were walking across a bridge over a small stream. We were walking side by side across it when one of those green vipers took a strike at my mates head, missing him by inches. Aggressive little bastards, we hadn't even noticed him!

It was pretty small, but still, a viper bite right to the head would not have been pretty!

Originally Posted by khmen

Talking of vipers...

Once, on Samui, me and a mate were walking across a bridge over a small stream. We were walking side by side across it when one of those green vipers took a strike at my mates head, missing him by inches. Aggressive little bastards, we hadn't even noticed him!

It was pretty small, but still, a viper bite right to the head would not have been pretty!

,,,, as my wife would say: "dangereous animal, strong bite, soon die" - and: "you have 20 minutes till die"

^^Should have added the bridge was overgrown with climbing plants, hence the viper lurking at head height.

^Yep, the smaller scorpions are nastier too.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ only when they play Newcastle... I am a proud supporter of these:

You should show more respect to the memory of BR then.

^ that is true. But then again there is the legacy of Kieron Dyer too...

wow, i see snakes at least 3-4 times a week and sometimes the cat will bring a baby one in for me to play with. Plenty of dead ones on the road as well

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ that is true. But then again there is the legacy of Kieron Dyer too...

What, really? Clutching at straws there a bit my old bean given that Sunderland prised Connor Wickham off you after he'd just signed a new contract.

If you don't like Newcastle, just say.

^ it's not the place, so much as the people...

Originally Posted by Phuketrichard

i see snakes at least 3-4 times a week and sometimes the cat will bring a baby one in for me to play with.

I have to make do with cockroaches and birds. Not that I'm complaining.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ only when they play Newcastle...

I am a proud supporter of these:

Sorry Betty,

I have been out in the Boonies too long. Cattle fences and non logo shirts? Ipswich Nots Forest. Rangers?

I hate snakes that green bugger scares me. Think I am moving to Kendal!

^ Mersyside is a dour place, mate...

Howard Kendal! Everton, the player from the 80/s is aScot?

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

Howard Kendal! Everton, the player from the 80/s is aScot?

No, he's English.

Howard Kendall is definitely English. Scots don,t have Christian names like Howard???
Wullie, Shuggie, Jimmy, but no Howard...

Did I miss something??? How does these football guys fit in to a thread about snakes? Just asking cos I can't see

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ only when they play Newcastle... I am a proud supporter of these:

You should show more respect to the memory of BR then.

H"way the Lads and not Howay the lads

Last year i nearly stood on a baby cobra in Phuket. Walking through the garden on the way to the pool and it was lying between the stepping stones....maybe 30cm. I didnt see it...GF pulled me back before i put my foot down less than 6-10 inches from it.. would it of attacked?....it always good to know where the nearest anti venom is to be found. (Phuket Bangkok Clinic laguna). Gardener confirmed it was a Cobra.

See loads of those coconut tree snakes...seem's those critters can jump...and they can move very quickly..First big snake was a massive dark coloured 2-3m snake crossing the dual lane 44 highway in Krabi...strange thing was it seemed to stop in the right hand lane and let me pass (doing 140km/hr) before crossing my lane...(btw not a python)

took me 2 years in Thailand before i saw a live snake....business partner saw a 7m Python in ko Phangan a few years back. Traffic backed up as it crossed a 5m road.

Is there a Dangerous snake thread on here? maybe pics and advice would be a good idea?

FTM

I lived in Thailand for 3 years and never saw a live snake... I guess I should consider myself lucky.