Quote Originally Posted by jcclark View Post
I don't understand this "phobia" people have about snakes.
I guess it goes back to Adam and Eve!!!
A phobia my arse. Have you ever seen a two year-old old child lying in the hospital screaming with pain from an eastern diamondback rattlesnake bite to the thigh? The fang marks were at least 3 inches apart. The baby was running around in the yard with her dad when it bit her and she almost died.

Last fall one of my yard caretakers was picking up small limbs that had fallen out of some large oak trees while another of them was mowing the grass. The guy picking up the limbs walked by a bush at the corner of the yard and a 6-ft. rattlesnake with 14 rattles came out right in front of him. It was as big around as a man's arm. He shot it and, since it was so big, decided to open it up to see what it had eaten..... and found a grown rabbit.

Since you mentioned Adam and Eve, did you read what God told Adam to do about bruising the head of serpents? I prefer to smash the heads off poisonous snakes and ignore all the bleeding heart comments that try to put a guilt trip on me. jmo