Snake in my living room Update post #39

[kimmikayb]

For your viewing pleasure...

Some pictures of the snakes that live in our yard

http://web.mac.com/energylab/iWeb/Site/untitled album 4.html


I don't know what I'll do if I ever find one in the house.

God bless your heart, you actually thought we'd open that link.

 

[Talking Hands]

I don't know if any of you have ever heard of a skink but it is a lizard that looks remarkably like a snake but it does have legs if you examine it closely. I was driving a friend to visit her son in Hialeah from the University of Miami where we were students at the time. We are driving up LeJuene Rd when this snake like thing slithers over my foot. I start screaming and pull off the road and jump out of the car still screaming. She calmly captures and removes this thing from my car, turns it over to show me it isn't a snake (SEE THE LEGS) and releases it. She had to drive the rest of the way I was shaking so bad. I HATE SKINKS AND SNAKES EQUALLY!
My FIL has snakes that like to curl up under his deck. Trust me I don't go out on the deck. I don't even like to walk in the grass where he lives. And if it is dark I won't even go out. Like my FIL but hate his house.

 

[floridafam]

Talking Hands,

We had a skink in our Florida room last week. DD7 said "There's a skank in the hot tub."

 

[lucas]

For your viewing pleasure...

Some pictures of the snakes that live in our yard

http://web.mac.com/energylab/iWeb/Site/untitled album 4.html


I don't know what I'll do if I ever find one in the house.

OMG!!! OMG!!!

 

[floridafam]

You know what bugs me most about snakes is their ability to crawl upwards.

As you can see in the pictures, that snake climbed pretty well.

All I could think about for days after that picture was a snake crawling up my bed frame.

 

[Talking Hands]

You know what bugs me most about snakes is their ability to crawl upwards.

As you can see in the pictures, that snake climbed pretty well.

All I could think about for days after that picture was a snake crawling up my bed frame.

Hush! LEave me my illusions. I would die if a snake crawled in my bed. DIE FOR REAL.

 

[raammartin]

While unpacking from our Disney Trip, I was putting our Resort mugs away in the cabinet over my stove, being on the short side I had to get a chair to reach the cabinet. I reached in and started putting away our mugs when something cold went across my arm. I then saw what it was....a 4 1/2 foot garder snake. I FREAK OUT! I ran out of my house screaming. My poor daughter was sitting on the couch and didn't know what my problem was. "mommy is having post Disney meltdown!" I didn't know what to do, it was HUGE! So I did what any rational women would do... I called 911. Told the dispatcher that I had a snake in my kitchen cabinet and it touched me! Thank GOD the dispatcher was a women to. She sent me an officer who thought he would just go in there and grab it. He explained to me that sometimes "WE tend to see snakes bigger than they are". He went in the kitchen ( I was standing in the living room chair daughter locked in my bedroom with towels under the door) when my brave hero informs me he needs gloves, a stick and a box. OK, I gave him rubber dish gloves, a broom and a wipie container. He then flicks the snake unto the floor, it is slithering all over my kitchen, I'm screaming SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT! He's says "Maam please remain calm, and open the door." I'm like "NO WAY! You're gonna fling it on me!" He tries to explain if he just throws it out it will just come back in, again I tell him to shoot it. He did manage to get it out of the house and take it FAR FAR AWAY from my house. Oh course in the small community where I live news travels fast. Everywhere I went people were always asking me about the snake. It was the running joke for a couple of months. We just recently moved and believe me when I was packing, I looked into everything before I reached in.

OMGa! I would have told him to SHOOT IT too!

 

[kimbac3]

Ok, this was one of the scariest yet funniest threads I've read in awhile. My DD14 HATES snakes...no "Honey i shrunk the audience" for us. I don't like them, I can see/look at them (she can't do that), but that snake falling through the sunroof..
Kimba

 

[Virgo10]

Ooo, a bull snake... HOW COOL! Well at least they're not venomous.

And look at the positive side, at least it didn't look like this bull snake!

That would even have me going

 

[raammartin]

All these stories are bringing back snake and bat memories for me. As a young child we had two snake "incidents" in our house. One time my Mom walked into the dark living room turned on the light and was mere centimeters from some mammoth black snake. I'm sure it was nothing dangerous, but all I remember is her screaming and running. The second time (same house) I was running my bath water (I was probably about 8), pulled back the shower curtain, and *SPLASH* a HUGE BLACK SNAKE FELL INTO MY BATH WATER. I ran shrieking out of the bathroom, my Mom ran into the bathroom, then she ran screaming out of the bathroom, my Dad runs in and doubles over laughing. Not funny, Mr. I think it was shortly after that incident we moved. Third time was last summer at our new house whilst I was playing in my flower beds. Nothing like digging around in pinestraw yanking up weeds and a ssssssssnake slithers across your ungloved hand. Shockingly I remained fairly calm. I only eeked out a small scream. Ok, the bat "incident" was at our old house. That house was out in the middle of the country and we knew we had bats. Occasionally one would sneak into the garage and then into the breezeway which joins the garage and house. This usually wasn't a problem as we'd leave the breezeway and garage open and chase the bat out. Well, one time it didn't quite work and the bat got in the house from the breezeway. Thank goodness the kids were asleep. We had a pocket door that separated the living area from the bedrooms so we shut it to keep it away from the sleeping kids. Then we proceeded to chase the dang bat around the living room and kitchen with a broom and fishing net. We finally managed to catch it between a large pane glass window and the curtain where DH snuck the net in, caught it, and released it.

I've had enough experience with pests, but I'm sure it ain't over yet. We live on a heavily wooded lot.

 

[disneymom3]

Oh my....breathe.....breathe.....

Okay, I know this was not funny to you adn I sooooo would have screamed hysterically and my DH would be hard pressed to get me to ever enter my house again. EVER. But this has made some of the most hilarious reading I have had in a long time!

Good luck. eeeeck.

 

[mickeysgal]

I don't know if any of you have ever heard of a skink but it is a lizard that looks remarkably like a snake but it does have legs if you examine it closely. I was driving a friend to visit her son in Hialeah from the University of Miami where we were students at the time. We are driving up LeJuene Rd when this snake like thing slithers over my foot. I start screaming and pull off the road and jump out of the car still screaming. She calmly captures and removes this thing from my car, turns it over to show me it isn't a snake (SEE THE LEGS) and releases it. She had to drive the rest of the way I was shaking so bad. I HATE SKINKS AND SNAKES EQUALLY!
My FIL has snakes that like to curl up under his deck. Trust me I don't go out on the deck. I don't even like to walk in the grass where he lives. And if it is dark I won't even go out. Like my FIL but hate his house.

We live in the deep South and skinks, lizards, and toads are very common here. They are always one or two crawling on the side of the house. These don't bother me. We did get two lizards in the house once. That was a fun time trying to capture them. The snake population, no way! Being in a rather swampy region, our problem is rattlesnakes and cotton mouths. Very real threats.

When we first moved here, DH and I went out to dinner. We got a frantic phone call from the kids asking us to come home. Apparently my youngest was sitting in our bedroom playing Nintendo and a frog jumped on him (he claims his head). He freaked and we found him sitting up on the kitchen counter while the oldest DS15 was trying to capture the frog with oven mitts. The frog was the tiniest thing no bigger than your thumb nail! We still laugh over this.

 

[magicmouse2]

I love snakes and lizards! We dont have them in the UK. The kids and I like to catch them at WDW. We petted a boa at conservation station AK once and as the CM was putting her away she started escaping. It was fun! Their skin is really nice and soft. DH and I considered moving to Australia and most of their snakes are venomous and like to invade your home regularly. I have a phobia about spiders that I am trying to overcome. If anyone has any tips on this please pm me. I am not scared of any animal just spiders but I want to like them

 

[magicmouse2]

Talking Hands,

We had a skink in our Florida room last week. DD7 said "There's a skank in the hot tub."

I would go more nuts about the 'Skank in the hot tub' than the 'Skink'

 

[Kycha]

Okay. After reading this thread I have no choice but to move to Ireland. I am deathly afraid of snakes and since St. Patrick has driven those evil creatures out of Ireland, I am on my way.

She sent me an officer who thought he would just go in there and grab it. He explained to me that sometimes "WE tend to see snakes bigger than they are". He went in the kitchen ( I was standing in the living room chair daughter locked in my bedroom with towels under the door) when my brave hero informs me he needs gloves, a stick and a box. OK, I gave him rubber dish gloves, a broom and a wipie container. He then flicks the snake unto the floor, it is slithering all over my kitchen, I'm screaming SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT! He's says "Maam please remain calm, and open the door." I'm like "NO WAY! You're gonna fling it on me!" He tries to explain if he just throws it out it will just come back in, again I tell him to shoot it. He did manage to get it out of the house and take it FAR FAR AWAY from my house. Oh course in the small community where I live news travels fast. Everywhere I went people were always asking me about the snake. It was the running joke for a couple of months. We just recently moved and believe me when I was packing, I looked into everything before I reached in.

This is just too funny. I would have reacted the same way. But, how did that police officer keep it together and not bust out laughing?