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stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:03 PM
Nothing like walking into your house at night and finding a hooded snake looking at you, even if it was a small one.

Fortuantly I was able to dispose of him safely.
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:04 PM
And yes, I will be leaving my lights around my house for the next couple of nights incase there are any more around. I'd hate to step on one in the dark.
Marmel
06-20-2003, 02:05 PM
Originally posted by stkelly52
Nothing like walking into your house at night and finding a hooded snake looking at you, even if it was a small one.

Fortuantly I was able to dispose of him safely.

Safely, as in chopping the bastard's head off with a shovel, scooping him up, and tossing the remains in the neighbors yard?

Because that is how I would have done it.
scooper
06-20-2003, 02:06 PM
DD's bats don't sound so bad now.
Draft Dodger
06-20-2003, 02:09 PM
oh fuck - my wife would absolutely have a cow...
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:10 PM
Originally posted by Marmel
Safely, as in chopping the bastard's head off with a shovel, scooping him up, and tossing the remains in the neighbors yard?

Because that is how I would have done it.

I used a butcher knife, and I tossed him in a trash can (there are no neighbors, I live on a school campus) but that that was the general idea.
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:11 PM
DD,

I take it that you and your mrs. will not be moving to malaysia anytime in the near future.
Draft Dodger
06-20-2003, 02:12 PM
dola - and I would have a cow too. scooper is right - I'll stick to bats thanks.
scooper
06-20-2003, 02:13 PM
I'd move. Right then and there. Just leave the snake the furntiture. Bye bye.
Easy Mac
06-20-2003, 02:14 PM
My girlfriend caught my cobra last weekend. Definitely wasn't a small one. It shot out venom, but she disposed of it safely.
sony
06-20-2003, 02:14 PM
What the hell? Where do you live?
Draft Dodger
06-20-2003, 02:15 PM
Originally posted by stkelly52
DD,

I take it that you and your mrs. will not be moving to malaysia anytime in the near future.

I just told her your story, and we weren't planning to move there anyway, but the chances are slim to nil now.
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:16 PM
Actually it is my second one that I found. The first one was about 4 years ago. I thought that it was just a racer, so I got a broom and tried to sweep it outside. It didn't like that idea and hooded up. that one was also small, just about a foot long

Of course my favorite story is when some of our senior guys caught a 6 foot cobra, killed it and then ate the heart raw. High school kids sure do some stupid stuff.
Franklinnoble
06-20-2003, 02:16 PM
Was it this Cobra?
http://www.yojoe.com/filecard/02/cobracommander13.jpg
Draft Dodger
06-20-2003, 02:18 PM
Originally posted by stkelly52
Of course my favorite story is when some of our senior guys caught a 6 foot cobra, killed it and then ate the heart raw. High school kids sure do some stupid stuff.

well, thanks for the ride, but I think I'll just get out here if it's all the same to you.
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:18 PM
Originally posted by sony
What the hell? Where do you live?

Penang Malaysia. THere have been about 9 or 10 cobras on campus in the 7 years that I have been here. Just part of living out here.
Franklinnoble
06-20-2003, 02:21 PM
Why do you live in Malaysia?
Easy Mac
06-20-2003, 02:23 PM
Because Madagascar had too many Lemurs
JeeberD
06-20-2003, 02:24 PM
When I lived in El Paso out next door neighbors had a rattlesnake get into their house. The wife saw the snake but she thought that it was one of her son's toy rubber snakes. She was just about to pick it up and put it away when it started rattling. Apparently she was within a foot or two of it when she realized that it was real. Very lucky woman. She could have wound up like their dog, which the snake killed...

No snakes ever got into our house, luckily. Just the occasional scorpion (my brother and sister both got stung, but never me!) and one time a tarantula...
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:24 PM
I am a missionary, working at a boarding school for Missionary kids. I am one of the dorm parents.
Franklinnoble
06-20-2003, 02:26 PM
Originally posted by stkelly52
I am a missionary, working at a boarding school for Missionary kids. I am one of the dorm parents.

So, it's safe to say you enjoy your missionary position?
Easy Mac
06-20-2003, 02:27 PM
well, he is in a missionary position with kids....
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:29 PM
Actually, I love it. It is the best job that i have ever had. Unfortunatly, this is my last month here. I am getting ready to move bact to the USA, where I am going to be starting a new ministry with college aged missionary kids. I will miss Penang, but I will be nice to not have to worry about cobras, especially with my baby coming next month.
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:30 PM
Oh...I you were making a joke. See us missionaries will always miss perverted humor like that.
Easy Mac
06-20-2003, 02:32 PM
mmmmmm college aged missionary position
cuervo72
06-20-2003, 02:34 PM
Originally posted by Franklinnoble
Was it this Cobra?


:)
Marmel
06-20-2003, 02:35 PM
Where in the States are you moving to stkelly? Is it in the Seattle area (as I seem to recall...)?
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 02:39 PM
Originally posted by Marmel
Where in the States are you moving to stkelly? Is it in the Seattle area (as I seem to recall...)?

Yes, we are moving back to Seattle.
Franklinnoble
06-20-2003, 03:01 PM
Sorry... cheap joke at your expense there, stkelly... anyhow, what church is sponsoring your mission?
stkelly52
06-20-2003, 03:12 PM
The school directly hires its staff, but the school is run by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Southern Baptists, Mission Aviation Fellowship and a couple of other missions.

As for our next ministry. We are starting up our own Non-profit Organization, so we will be spending the next year traveling around and trying to raise our support from where ever we can get it.
Craptacular
06-20-2003, 03:22 PM
Originally posted by scooper
I'd move. Right then and there. Just leave the snake the furntiture. Bye bye.

Ditto.