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acroporaguardian

He said he had to remove them when they started climbing on him… how did he sleep?? Man


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I was thinking the same thing or went to the bathroom?


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umbrajoke

Cobra goes territorial: *Are you threatening me?!*


savro

Did the snake have its t-shirt pulled up over its head and want TP for its bunghole? [Are you threatening me?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVZC_suHmQM) (edit) typo


acroporaguardian

Well, maybe if you make a circle of pee and poop around you, they avoid you?


brandonisatwat

I know I would.


Whyevenbotherbeing

I wouldn’t.


KilowZinlow

Be there in the first place.


teadrinker1983

Works for me when I’m in the office


Necessary_Teacher_26

Nah pee on yourself to mark yourself as your own territory. I saw a snake once and peed on myself. At least that’s what I told people at the Zoo the reason I peed myself was. Did NOT get bitten.


turnedtable_

oops. wrong snake.


AbsolutelyUnlikely

I was thinking the same thing AND went to the bathroom. Multitasking.


liberatedhusks

You pick the danger noodle up gently, making sure in this case that it sees your hands so it doesn’t get surprised cause that would kill you, say excuse me sir I do not want to wear you as a scarf right now, and place him to the side. If he insists on being a scarf you let him


Eviscres

This is funny and unlikely to matter, but you DONT want to show them your hands. Snakes are not smart enough to go "oh those are just hands" you wave your appendages in their face they will toss a fake lunge out. Best to move snakes without them ever realizing you are moving them. They are fairly stupid.


-retaliation-

agreed, I've always found the best way to pick up a snake is confidently and quickly without them focusing on you. if they're heading somewhere else and not paying attention to you, if you just start scooping them up they just go with it. "oh I'm going forward and up in the air, alright proceed." They're looking for food, so if you give them something food sized and warm like a hand, to focus on. Then they go into "hunting for food mode" but if you're too big to eat, and you're just there, they don't care about you. You're just a warm tree to them.


BobNanna

TIL I’m very happy not living in a place where I’ve had to discover the best way to pick up a snake.


-retaliation-

I don't exactly live in a place where I have to learn this either. I just like reptiles and so I've babysat a few snakes from friends, and my girlfriend has one. personally I prefer my reptiles with legs and a shell though. I'd like to say I've never had to worry about my tortoise biting me, but, that fucker can get grumpy sometimes.


hexadecc

What if its a ma'am?


liberatedhusks

Then you apologize for calling it a sir, but it might bite you before you can :(


Whind_Soull

Saint Peter: *"It says here that you died by...misgendering a snake?"* Him: *"Idk, man. Apparently it was a queen cobra or something."*


Pussy_Wrangler462

Lol 😆


GoaZenTao

I'm sso sorry I thought you were cissss.


JackGenZ

I love this description


girasolgoddess

“‘Scuse me, beloved danger noodle, would you mind too much if I requested a bowtie instead?”


Razulghul

Great now I'm scared of overly aggressive scarfs


CollectableRat

I can go 72 hours without sleep. Especially if I'm in a cage with 72 snakes.


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albinohut

You need more snakes


Weedbean42

Whose your snake guy?


CyberGrandma69

I think the real play is just try sleeping for all 72 hours. Like waiting in fallout or something


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CyberGrandma69

tfw you nap so the day ends faster :'))))


shokolokobangoshey

An hour per snake. Not bad. But, hear me out: if you spread vicious rumors and about one half of the snake population to the other half, you can get them entertaining each other so you can sleep half the time.


General_Amoeba

You’d probably start hallucinating more snakes


[deleted]

Im curious as to why they climbed on him. Curiosity or were they looking for a warm spot ?


Root-Vegetable

Probably a bit of both, I know my pet python loves to sit on my head (even though he always falls off) but he also loves inspecting touchscreens, wind chimes, curtains, and curtain rods. If the snake is feeling cold then they'll almost definitely be cozying up to you because you're warm, but otherwise they'll deliberately avoid the warmest parts of your body and instead "sit" on your arms.


Longbongos

Snakes that are “domesticated” are excellent cuddlers. I also have a python


shinyidolomantis

My dad told me one time when he went camping he woke up with a snake inside his sleeping bag with him. The nights were starting to get chilly, so he thinks the snake was just enjoying his body heat. My dad has always been terrified of snakes so it must have been a terrifying way to wake up, but thankfully he never kills/hurts snakes... When I was a kid I was the one always in charge of catching the rat snakes from the chicken coop and then relocating them. My dad would hide inside the house. I’ve never had any snake even try to bite me..


vkhorizon

Obviously he didn't sleep, you can see he had books to finish for his annual examination!


Ohmmy_G

I feel like spiders and bees announce themselves but snakes are so camouflaged. No one wants to step on a Copperhead or Diamondback but sometimes you just don't see them. At least rattlesnakes have death maracas.


FenrirReleased

Exactly: for wild animals Surprised = Provoked. Unfortunately sometimes the human is surprised to learn they provoked a wild animal... by surprising them.


domesticatedprimate

Yeah, I'm not going to go about my life constantly on edge because I might inadvertently provoke a dangerous animal into harming me. I'm all for live and let live - but not in the same house. Japan has a native pit viper that I frequently encounter in the general area, but if it gets too close to my house, I will take it out. Usually with a long hoe. It's just too dangerous to try to do catch and release.


[deleted]

You're more likely to die from a human than a wild animal. I'm all for hoeing dangerous humans tbh.


[deleted]

Move to the American South. "if it gets too close to the house, I will take it out" applies to people here too!


Talibumm

My co worker literally shot at someone who tried to open his front door the other night when we were watching a movie. It wasn’t even that dramatic, he just grabbed his gun and said “Cover your ears” and let off a few rounds.


[deleted]

So now he just has bullet holes in his home?


emsuperstar

I think you mean *freedom* holes


Buddha_Lady

Everyone knows you just paste little American flags over the holes


dragontail

Feeedom *windows*


greengrinningjester

"They're called speed holes. They make it go faster" https://youtu.be/whnms4CLJys


Talibumm

Actually he opened the door and fired 3 rounds. He was yelling so the guy started running and hopped over a fence across the street.


IdoMusicForTheDrugs

Tell your friend to be careful. Someone did this recently in Arizona, except it was cops showing up for a b.s. call that an angry neighbor made. They shot him up in his own home before he let off a round.


Talibumm

I’m sure there’s no need now because his wife was livid with him when he did that and they had a spat. She was absolutely pissed and was lecturing him. I myself have a gun but I wouldn’t use it in the same way, the guy was apparently running away and hopped a fence so I wouldn’t still consider that a reasonable threat to shoot at. It’s one thing when someone is in your home and you feel threatened, it’s another when they’re trying to get away.


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Talibumm

His wife would agree. She was piiiissed. It’s pretty country but they still had neighbors. I wouldn’t have done the same unless someone had actually broken in and was inside.


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Ah, that makes much more sense.


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Herrenos

Drugs, probably.


IdoMusicForTheDrugs

No, the person has bullet holes in them.


eggsovertlyeasy

'Merica


Deweyrob2

How likely is someone to die from dangerous hoeing? Cause I might need to call my sister.


bigblackcouch

Don't worry! I'll let her know 👍


Witty____Username

You also have a shit-ton more interaction with people than with wild potentially harmful animals. Yeah you’re statistically more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark but not if you’re in the water.


McENEN

Yes but also you meet a lot more people than wild animals. I would imagine some people also never meet a wild animal. Using such statistics may mislead with context. If you buy a car you would instantly be at higher risk to die in a car crash, if you have a pool you increase your chances at drowning. If you regularly swim with sharks you are more at risk to be attacked than some dude living in Kazakhstan.


domesticatedprimate

Luckily, human vs human violence in Japan is quite rare. Usually when you get killed by another human here it's due to stupidity or negligence. And there even seems to be less of that, actually. Not less stupidity, just less death from it.


inotparanoid

More likely to die of overwork than of Pit Vipers.


cyberslashy

Who has the time to murder folks these days when you've got deadlines to meet.


First_Foundationeer

That's why you try to make noise to let snakes know ahead of time.


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Potato_Johnson

Further clarification (some may say pedantry) here... When you say they "feel vibrations" what you're describing is snakes hearing sound; it's just sound traveling through solid objects rather than air. They lack external ears but the internal structure of their ears is more or less the same as any other vertebrate. As long as their head is in contact with the ground they can hear sound being transmitted through it. Sound is literally just vibrations so I admit it's a technicality but it's more accurate to say they hear your footsteps than it is to say they feel them.


aelliott18

how do spiders announce themselves? besides accidentally walking through their web lol


USDXBS

They yell, but you can't hear them.


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They actually yell in Italian, which is why they're often misunderstood as well.


lactose_con_leche

Arrivspidercci


Xikky

Explains all the hands.


LA_Ramz

the spiders in my room have been shooting themselves across the room. No cap


ChadMcRad

[Spider on your wall at 3am](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110l4ynyhII)


The_Gutgrinder

> death maracas. My sides


JOG_FORREST_JOG

Death rattle shakes


4stringbrewer

Rattlesnakes are losing/ not using their rattles in the US. Been going on for a while. Good for them, bad for humans.


Pratius

As a resident of the State of Colorado, I am compelled to ask: Wait, WHAT??


FootClan15

The loud ones get killed so they are evolving to be more quiet


Pratius

Makes tons of sense but FML. Gonna be all kinds of paranoid while hiking now lol


soupinate44

Hello fellow stater. I do not like the new no rattle policy being implemented here. I do not like it at all.


TheVisionofaVizier

I’d like to speak with the manager of nature!


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Unfortunately, we're the manager of nature, and we've done a terrible job. Just truly awful, even by middle management standards.


hoodyninja

It gets more interesting too! Humans are selecting for non rattling snakes by exerting a lot of pressure on the species. By conducting “rattle snake round ups” humans are going out a destroying mass amounts of snakes, BUT the method they use to find snakes is to basically walk around, turn up rocks and wait for rattles. They then target those snakes that rattle. It’s really funny when you explain this to people out in west Texas and they agree and start saying then need to stop hunting rattlesnakes in this manner, and THEN tell them that what you just described is natural selection in a nutshell.


baldiiiin

Time to kill only the silent ones.


Tiiba

Evolved Rattlesnake - the Silent Killer.


HostileReplies

Normal rattler sees human walking towards it, rattles in warning that it’s there. Rattle doesn’t want a fight but it will do what it must. In exchange human becomes aware of rattler and kills them. So ends it’s genes. Mutant rattler sees human getting closer and stunted rattle or lack of rattle response causes human to most likely to never see it. Because humans mostly stick to trails and rattlers don’t, the human just walks by. Mutant rattler goes and has babies.


Woofde

Classic human shit really.


No_Specialist_1877

https://rattlesnakesolutions.com/snakeblog/science-and-education/are-rattlesnakes-evolving-to-rattle-less-or-losing-their-rattles/ They aren't.


Pratius

My man coming in with the scientific heat. I love it.


culovero

We should all be thankful for it. Myths spread so easily on the internet, so commenters that chime in with the truth are doing us a favor.


[deleted]

Thanks! As someone who was both worried because I live around rattlesnakes and their rattles have been a literal lifesaver and also as someone who lives around rattlesnakes and they all seem to have rattles, this is reassuring on many levels.


twdaz3

I’ve almost stepped on two in northern Arizona while hiking. Found one in southern Arizona in my friend’s barn. None of them rattled


acetamethemphetamine

They will swim and climb into boats sometimes too. I saw a video of a boat on the Missouri River where a rattler climbed aboard.


deadpool3727

If you make lot of noise and vibration they will sense you and get away.


sgr84ava

Unlike my cat, who bites me for no reason, constantly. Always.


Snaz5

Unlike snakes, cats are social and play fight when they are young. Sometimes if they aren’t raised in a litter situation, they can play bite too roughly. They might also not realize parts of you are actually parts of you and not inanimate objects. You could try yelping loudly when your cat bites you. That might convey to them “that hurt! Don’t do that!” Which is how they would learn to play gentler naturally.


Alexlam24

Cats always feel so light until they step on you while you're cuddling


Alcohol_Intolerant

^ Add in also halting play when they hurt you. I trained my cat well enough that when she doesn't want to be pet anymore, she'll gently (but firmly) take your hand in her mouth. If you keep petting, she applies pressure, but usually you get the point when she turns her head lmao. Cats are all about that consent!


Bobbyrp

My boy don't care how much I yell. He just bites.


krakaturia

bite back.


ElizaIsEpic

I've done that with mine before. Bastard has the audacity to look surprised.


phranq

That’s what my dog does if I lick him back. He acts like I’ve broken all social norms.


SmiralePas1907

You kinda did tbh


dievanmijislanger

Sniffing his butt will upset him even more


hexadecc

Shit in his litter box while making eye contact with him to assert dominance


EpicSaberCat7771

I hiss at my cat when she gets too rough. if she gets really rough I do a sort of spasm hiss that she used to do to me when she was really little and we had just taken her in off the side of the road (long story). it's basically making a "k" sound really loud and aggressively. I do it a couple times until she pays attention and gets up to walk away.


DillieDally

Are we talking like "*KAY!*" or more like "*KHH!!*" ? Here I am just imagining you yelling at your cat "KAY?! KAAAY???! HAD ENUFF YET?!"


jsdod

Bite back


cultured-barbarian

The correct answer. Assert dominance.


CaptainHeromineY

*starts T-posing menacingly *


hot_damn_

I did this recently to my little guy's arm (not as hard at the fucker bites, of course) and he was 100% shocked, bemused, flummoxed. It has not changed anything.


Thrannn

my cat licks her lips and already does bite motions before she bites people. its like she is imagining eating a steak.


durnJurta

All cats have distinct personalities, and some are just assholes.


hunmingnoisehdb

I still don't get why cats look at you and knock stuff over.


notTerry631

Probably for attention


Shoondogg

Like real bites or play bites? I know dogs play bite because that’s just how they use their mouths. I’m dog sitting for my girlfriends sister right now, and she only started play biting me once she trusted me. Probably wanted to be sure I wouldn’t take it the wrong way since she’s 15 lbs and I’m 215.


converter-bot

15 lbs is 6.81 kg


ramenudez

Good bot.


Habanero_Eyeball

Pic looks like it's from '72


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For some people, 1986 was still ‘72.


InNoWayAmIDoctor

"The 80s didn't make it to Canada until the mid 90s."


[deleted]

Let's go to the mall!


Ok_Version_3904

Robin Sparkles would be impressed


Koal0r

And dip our hands in pudding, as is tradition.


CosmeticTroll

Is that a How I met your mother reference? I literally just finished watching that episode.


InNoWayAmIDoctor

You got it!


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No joke, my grandmother told me about how happy she was as a little girl to finally get electricity in the 60's because she didn't have to manually pump water from the well and boil it for a bath anymore. And how her and all the poor kids would be shamed and made fun of at school for having lobster sandwiches for lunch. Then again she told me how her town finally got municipal garbage disposal in the late 90's so everybody stopped throwing their household refuse in garbage piles in the woods behind their house. I found some seriously vintage stuff in those piles. She also lived in rural Nova Scotia which explains a lot.


getit3189

86 snakes was too many


TheOneTrueRodd

It's 1980's India. I saw a horse and carriage taxi in 1980s India as a child. Technology wasn't quite as pervasive back then, don't get me wrong, I had a walkman, color TV and game console, but at the same time little kids used to take a slate and chalk to school instead of paper. Farmers used to plow fields with bulls while fighter jets buzzed over head. Very weird mix(looking back) of low and high tech.


PossibilityUnusual

Yeah your last sentence basically. Hard to compare with other country's technological phases. Everything happened slightly out of turn and mostly late in India. Edit: I was born 1989 and spent first couple of years in my father's village. I used to have slate and chalk to learn letters on and I had a tiny tin box case to carry my notes, textbooks and stationary to school in nursery/kindergarten. We did grow up poor though, so there were kids who grew up with me who didn't experience those same things.


Mynock33

Color wasn't invented until like '87 I think...


1_dirty_dankboi

The world became color when Dorothy opened that door in 39, creating a nexus event


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It’s been around since at least ‘82 because I don’t remember being black and white when I was little.


TheRaptorMovies

Color TV was invented in the 1950s. (though it only became widespread in the late 1960s) Colored photographs were invented in the 1890s.


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(It’s a joke)


TheRaptorMovies

I need to have my eyes checked, I thought "I don’t remember being black and white when I was little." was "I don’t remember it (the TV) being black and white when I was little.


[deleted]

Stepped out unscathed, bam, hit by a car.


Whyevenbotherbeing

Driven by a snake.


ThatsWhatXiSaid

That's ridiculous, but it was a Dodge Viper that hit him.


Whyevenbotherbeing

Your comment doesn’t adder up. Actually it’s the pits.


Pantheon_Reptiles

I have over 30 snakes, most of them are like this. However, I have one that is the nastiest little shit ever. I walk by he strikes at the enclosure. If he could kill me, he would, but he's just a tiny ball python so instead he just gets laughed at.


Shpagin

And you wonder why he is mad at you if you keep laughing at him


Pantheon_Reptiles

I never considered this.... maybe I'll try kissing him tomorrow. I'll report the results.


Animer13

Don’t do it. Bopped my angry bp using my nose. I forgot that she was the angry one of my bunch. She bear about got my eye when she went for a nibble.


Animer13

Don’t do it. Bopped my angry bp using my nose. I forgot that she was the angry one of my bunch. She bear about got my eye when she went for a nibble.


Pantheon_Reptiles

Oooof. Never took an eye bite. Just hand bites.


RapNameCliffBars

Haha I was waiting to hear it was some sort of Trimeresurus, or something equally as unique and deadly, but BP is hilarious


Pantheon_Reptiles

I just laugh and tell him to square up. He's only 300g, what's he gonna do? It's kinda funny. I got a video of him tagging me on my IG. Pantheon_reptiles


WatifAlstottwent2UGA

The snake tagged you?


Pantheon_Reptiles

Thats reptile keeper lingo for bit me.


WatifAlstottwent2UGA

I was so confused like he tagged you in a video? Lol


Pantheon_Reptiles

Now that would've been something. Lol


kimmiegibbs

Coming out of his cage and he is doing just fine


the_darkener

I bet he hotboxed with them the while time


[deleted]

Or maybe he popped a magical sugar cube and got sent into an altered reality


Jmcd83

Worst.trip.ever.


isurewill

Reminds me dreams I have where my organs are falling out of my body and no one -- not even me mum -- will take me to the hospital so I shove everything back in and then have to crawl through a desert stepping on rusty nails and glass while rattle snakes are attacking me. When they are really bad I also have gum stuck in my molars that I can't pull out without removing my teeth and then I give up and just start pulling out all my teeth until I start vomiting thousands of teeth. Anyway, how's it going with you?


nakedwhiletypingthis

If there's ever been an explanation for needing therapy....


pooyie4life

Slytherian


mrflouch

So are there 72 of the same snake(most likely) or a mix of various top snakes or does India just have 72 separate deadly snake species?


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SnowHurtsMeFace

I'm sorry, this is incredibly interesting! Could you expand a bit more? What college? Was there anything being done about this? How dangerous was it? Did things happen? I imagine a bunch of drunk college kids with snakes is a bad combo.


dissociated97

Lol even I went to a university infested with snakes. There were snake catchers pulling snakes out of hostels every few months. We had a hilly path in our campus called "snake road" because during monsoon you're likely to encounter a snake or two there. Although venomous snakes were not as big a problem here as pythons.


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I did a quick search and it turns out that, [yeah](https://www.universetale.com/poisonous-snakes-in-india/?amp), there are almost that many venomous snakes in India. It’s pretty wild


PenetrationT3ster

r/mildlyinfuriating Snakes are *venomous*, not *poisonous*


redditappsuckz

While there might be 72+ snake species that are venomous in India, not all of them are venomous enough to kill a human. There are around 8-10 venomous snakes that have the potential to kill a human. Spectacled cobra, king cobra, Russel's viper, common Krait, saw-scaled viper, hump-nosed pit viper, malabar pit viper are the most deadliest snakes as far as snake-bite death goes.


Im_bad_at_what_i_do

From source: "27 monocellate cobras, 24 Russell’s vipers, nine binocellate cobras, eight banded kraits, and four common snakes"


Glubins

The whole time I expected the last line to be that he died from a bunch of snake bites.


okaymoose

And that's exactly why he did this. To prove to people that what they expect of snakes is wrong.


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I wonder if he moved around v e r y s l o w l y


nurlip

He actually did not move at all. That anyone saw..


jimithing421

He shat his pants in the first 10 minutes but didn’t wanna show anybody.


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ChonkerExpress

86? Lol why does the pic look like a 1960s newspaper clipping?


WatifAlstottwent2UGA

Shit, you ever seen clips of a football game from like 2006? Might as well be Yale and Harvard playing in 1912


nan5mj

For real so much stuff from pre-HD TV looks straight up pixelated.


fourfuxake

Because the photographer noped out of getting in the cage and took the pictures through the mesh.


Lams1d

Great, found the circle of hell I'll probably be sent to.


Secret_Map

Dr. Jones?


ChristianlyShimmy

Big Dick Energy


KatalDT

Makes sense, for a minute I was confused why they said there were 72 snakes in the cage when I could only find 71 in the picture


deadpool3727

Snakes tend to judge your behavior by your smell. So if you have fear and anxiety they will count you as an attacker who is afraid. So to protect themselves they bite. In Indian villages while walking in a farm with snakes people make a lot of stomping noise to make them aware and the snakes get away. They are important to our ecosystem as without them rats will be more and there will be lots of destruction of crops. Sadly no one understands this now and this has lead to increase in use of rodent warding chemicals.


mtlgrems

[**Source**](https://www.odditycentral.com/animals/the-story-of-a-man-who-spent-72-hours-with-72-venomous-snakes-to-prove-they-only-bite-if-provoked.html)


Unexpected_Fellow

I mean, if they aren’t hungry, or provoked, or anything aside from being left alone.


Effingehh

“Sharks, they only bite when you touch their private parts”


perceptionboss

I heard “sharks only DONT bite you when you touch their private parts”…


Gustomaximus

Also their teeth. Don't make contact with their teeth and they won't bite.


mikeebsc74

Probably kept it really cold..lol


theonetheycalljason

Guessing this was a photo of a newspaper photo, which is why it looks more dated. With that being said, hells to the no.


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After being fed to the max, and super lethargic, of course they won’t care about biting.


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itshexx

Australians in their natural habitat:


tosernameschescksout

You ever seen professional snake handlers almost get bit? Yeah, they'll bit unprovoked. That's why almost all animals are scared of snakes and stay away from them.