Look what Scared da Shiat out of me at EM

[Fired Yo Momma]

I did a solo ride yesterday morning before I started in my drunken stooper of the St. Paddys day pub crawl.

I ran over this poor guy. I know he is not a rattler but still it scared the shait out me. I think he was ok.

[DownHillPhil]

Glad both of you are ok!

[drew12]

Too bad you ran over him, and unless you bunny hopped it's probably
not doin' too well.

Snakes don't bother me anymore. I stop and check them out....
then make sure to get them off the trail.

[Rascal]

I saw two rattlers in Aliso last Thursday.

The first was on Cholla - nothing like hearing a rattle when suffering up a hill. It was just off to the side but coiled up and pissed.

The second one was on the fireroad out by the main gate, kinda by the cave rock trail. Luckily I saw it crossing the road in time to move out of the way, but still, not something I wanted to see.

[Wicked Smot]

Originally Posted by drew12

Snakes don't bother me anymore.

I'm guessing you haven't had a pair of fangs rammed into your leg, followed by an hour of excruciating pain and nausea, followed by 3 days in the ICU, followed by 8 weeks of intensive rehab to regain lower extremity strength and coordination, followed by a 6 month restriction on any biking activity, followed by nightmares and panic attacks causing you to lash out at night and repeatedly beat on your wife's arm because that thing looks like a fricken' sidewinder coming to get you?

[station]

Originally Posted by Wicked Smot

I'm guessing you haven't had a pair of fangs rammed into your leg, followed by an hour of excruciating pain and nausea, followed by 3 days in the ICU, followed by 8 weeks of intensive rehab to regain lower extremity strength and coordination, followed by a 6 month restriction on any biking activity, followed by nightmares and panic attacks causing you to lash out at night and repeatedly beat on your wife's arm because that thing looks like a fricken' sidewinder coming to get you?

holy crap dude.

[Rockinthecasbah]

Sidewinders are my absolute favortie local snake, alot of people have been hit by them because they dish themselves in the sand and you dont see them. Did they use cro-fab anti venom or the old stuff??? the old stuff is almost as bad as the envemonation

Hopefully you hit that gopher near its rear end and it will be fine. I found a lawnmowered southern pacific at work today talk about ruining a good day I almost back over a few lawn mowers on the way out just for retaliation

Originally Posted by Wicked Smot

I'm guessing you haven't had a pair of fangs rammed into your leg, followed by an hour of excruciating pain and nausea, followed by 3 days in the ICU, followed by 8 weeks of intensive rehab to regain lower extremity strength and coordination, followed by a 6 month restriction on any biking activity, followed by nightmares and panic attacks causing you to lash out at night and repeatedly beat on your wife's arm because that thing looks like a fricken' sidewinder coming to get you?

[drew12]

Originally Posted by Wicked Smot

I'm guessing you haven't had a pair of fangs rammed into your leg, followed by an hour of excruciating pain and nausea, followed by 3 days in the ICU, followed by 8 weeks of intensive rehab to regain lower extremity strength and coordination, followed by a 6 month restriction on any biking activity, followed by nightmares and panic attacks causing you to lash out at night and repeatedly beat on your wife's arm because that thing looks like a fricken' sidewinder coming to get you?

An old Girl Friend bit me, and left a mark.
Although I wasn't in the ICU, she left me just about as
mentally jacked up...

[G-Ride]

Originally Posted by Wicked Smot

I'm guessing you haven't had a pair of fangs rammed into your leg, followed by an hour of excruciating pain and nausea, followed by 3 days in the ICU, followed by 8 weeks of intensive rehab to regain lower extremity strength and coordination, followed by a 6 month restriction on any biking activity, followed by nightmares and panic attacks causing you to lash out at night and repeatedly beat on your wife's arm because that thing looks like a fricken' sidewinder coming to get you?

Yeah, what the other guy said. Holy crap, dude.

[el_d00der1n0]

Our resident amateur herpetologist here says it's a gopher snake.

[Wicked Smot]

I didn't say it had actually happened to me either...I just mean that it would probably suck if it did.

Respect the serpent.

[Lor]

Good thing it was just a gopher snake! Whew

[Fired Yo Momma]

I respect the serpent!! Remember it was the serpent that caused Eve to screw things up for everybody!!! My lighting speed was too much for my cat like reflexs so unfourtaintly I ran the thing over.

[DeeZee]

Originally Posted by Fired Yo Momma

I respect the serpent!! Remember it was the serpent that caused Eve to screw things up for everybody!!! My lighting speed was too much for my cat like reflexs so unfourtaintly I ran the thing over.

would have been a tasty after ride snack. Also would have made a cool belt

[CC]

Originally Posted by Wicked Smot

I'm guessing you haven't had a pair of fangs rammed into your leg, followed by an hour of excruciating pain and nausea, followed by 3 days in the ICU, followed by 8 weeks of intensive rehab to regain lower extremity strength and coordination, followed by a 6 month restriction on any biking activity, followed by nightmares and panic attacks causing you to lash out at night and repeatedly beat on your wife's arm because that thing looks like a fricken' sidewinder coming to get you?

~ Good thing you can laugh about it now!

Oh yah that was me...sorry, I don't know why that came off as so funny.

Hope you're better now


edit...oh did this happen to you or not???

[DownHillPhil]

Too bad it wasn't you who went through that Smot...I was about to say "suck it up"

I like making friends!

[station]

Originally Posted by Wicked Smot

I didn't say it had actually happened to me either...I just mean that it would probably suck if it did.

Respect the serpent.

I feel lied to.

[Rockinthecasbah]

I get paid to work with reptiles , its kind of what i do, i dont Id correct 100% of the time on some snakes but its defintly is a gopher,
didnt i post the snakes you are mosty likely to encounter thing already?
check out http://www.californiaherps.com/ if you ever need to id a reptile in Cali most of them are on there, the three most common rattle snakes around our , Southern Pacfics, Crotalus virdis helleri, Red Diamond, Crotalus ruber ruber, and the Speckled rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii.
If you are in south eastern california you may enocunter, western diamondbacks, Crotalus atrox. And up in dez of course you have the sidewinder Crotalus creastes , and the famed mojave green, Crotalus scutulatus

the southern pacfic and red diamond are the most common encountered and the southern pacific has the highest number of envenomations.

Originally Posted by el_d00der1n0

Our resident amateur herpetologist here says it's a gopher snake.