Herping in local parks.

[adamanteus]

'Free handling' venomous snakes in the wild is crazy, dangerous, unnecessary and self-indulgent. An accident waiting to happen.

[Millinex]

'Free handling' venomous snakes in the wild is crazy, dangerous, unnecessary and self-indulgent. An accident waiting to happen.

Not really. Not all of us believe in the whole holding behind the head thing. The snake needed to be moved and I feel confident in my years of experience to do this. I'm going into the herpetology field, and I will be keeping hots in a few years when I move out. To me this was a great chance to learn on a relatively docile specimen, it is part of my line of work, doing it will need to happen at some point, especially since I don't believe in holding a snake behind its head for situations like this.

Wasn't unnecessary, unless you feel leaving a deadly snake 5 feet from the trail with 2 school busses full of kids in the parking lot 30 feet away is perfectly safe for them, or the countless uneducated tourists who wander off path and have no idea what it is. Far from self-indulgent either, to educate people and move the snake safely.

Just because others can't do it safely doesn't mean I can't

[mustang]

'Free handling' venomous snakes in the wild is crazy, dangerous, unnecessary and self-indulgent. An accident waiting to happen.

you know what they say
"only the good die young"-billy joel

[ssssnakeluvr]

well...in this case....only the dumb die young....the good know how to handle them and not get bitten....

[mustang]

well...in this case....only the dumb die young....the good know how to handle them and not get bitten....

the "good" are divided into to catagories
Group A) smart ,have there commen sense , and have all their marbles
Group B) smart, have their 2 sense, and lost a few marbles