Escaped Tiger Rattlesnake Found.....Dead

[alfsauve]

The Atlanta Zoo carelessly let a Tiger Rattlesnake escape and kept telling everyone that there was no need to panic.   They said the snake was contained within a non-public building and that it didn't like to be around people anyway, so there was no danger.

BUT  of course it shows up on the doorstep of a house across the street, begging for handouts, or maybe just a small kitty cat or two.  Boy 2-1/2 discovers him first.  Dad whacks snake.    Zoo apologizes.   Personally, I'd want a life-long pass for 2 myself.

http://www.ajc.com/news/venomous-rattlesnake-found-dead-602213.html

I love the part about how the Zoo isn't sure how the snake got across the street.   Uh, hitched a ride on MARTA, but didn't have correct change so the driver booted her out?    I can see the jokes now.  Why did the snake cross the street?  To eat what was on the other side.

[billt]

Watch, PETA or some such nutcase group will sue the old man for animal cruelty.  Bill T.

[tt11758]

(The snake) was found across the street from zoo grounds -- roughly 100 yards away on Atlanta Avenue -- where it was clubbed to death by a resident unaware the reptile was on the lam.

Knowing it's "on the lam" would've made a difference?  Does that make it less poisonous?  Screw that!!  Terminate the slithering sumbitch with EXTREME prejudice!!!

[SwoopSJ]

Personally, I'd want a life-long pass for 2 myself.

Free passes and taxidermy.  One snake may not be enough for boots, but I bet he'd make a nice wallet.   

Swoop

[PegLeg45]

"We're still looking at how it got there," Lawson said.

You gotta be sh*tting me....... 





Not a rattlesnake, but none-the-less....... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpmob-J9DU

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[ratcatcher55]

Should read

Escaped Tiger Rattlesnake now able to vote in Chicago

or

Escaped Tiger Rattlesnake found to be a Good Tiger Rattlesnake

Gunbelt material. Well Done Citizen!

[fightingquaker13]

Escaped Rattlesnake Found.....Dead.
They were expecting to find it alive? :
FQ13

[alfsauve]

Escaped Rattlesnake Found.....Dead.
They were expecting to find it alive? :
FQ13

Yes, actually.   The zoo didn't realize it had gotten off the property and were in hopes of recapturing it.

[Fatman]

"We're still looking at how it got there," Lawson said.

You gotta be sh*tting me.......  

I'm guessing it flew there - must be the  the rare Flying Bumblebee breed of Tiger Rattlesnake.

We had a guy at work that was a bonafide hypochondriac that craved attention. Came into work one day with two marks on his arm, claimed he was bitten by a baby rattlesnake that fell out of a tree. He only needed benadryl to stop the poison... one of the guys promptly id-ed the critter that bit him as a Baby Flying Bumblebee Rattlesnake.  
 

[alfsauve]

Knowing it's "on the lam" would've made a difference? 

Well, they might not have let the 2yo child run up the front porch first, had the suspected the asp was loose in the 'hood.  Fortunately, the little boy didn't get close enough to be hurt.