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bigwillq

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2. Snakes on a mothereffin island!

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:36 PM

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Massachusetts plans venomous rattlesnake colony on island [View all] Little Tich Feb 2016 OP

Reservoir? What could possibly go wrong? merrily Feb 2016 #1

Actually, it is very unlikely that anything would "go wrong." Nitram Feb 2016 #19

On my land in NM, I usually see 2 or 3 every yr womanofthehills Feb 2016 #24

Both my parents have been bit by copperheads on their place in the Blue Ridge mountains. Nitram Feb 2016 #34

Curious elljay Feb 2016 #37

Do tell... and please, be creative as possible in your account. LanternWaste Feb 2016 #39

Snakes on a mothereffin island! bigwillq Feb 2016 #2

DUzy! n/t area51 Feb 2016 #17

Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs... William Seger Feb 2016 #3

Working in the oilfied as a pipe line inspector in the Eastern NM desert: vinny9698 Feb 2016 #6

Children and small women don't have as strong a vibration womanofthehills Feb 2016 #26

So there is a place to stick the Republicans after all ! LiberalElite Feb 2016 #4

This could serve as the plot for another Samuel L. Jackson movie. Kaleva Feb 2016 #5

What could possible go wrong. Everybody knows rattlesnakes can't swim. Agony Feb 2016 #7

It doesn't really explain why they want to establish a colony A Little Weird Feb 2016 #8

Idiots. Rattlesnakes would rather run than strike. And most bites are dry bites Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #9

Didn't realize rattlers were that far north on the East Coast. ManiacJoe Feb 2016 #10

Here in the Midwest they get as far north as SE Minnesota. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #13

hssssssssssssss...make america great again...hsssssssssssssssssssssss.. jtuck004 Feb 2016 #11

I'm sorry but Tom French is an idiot. He says he's recieved "several" messages of worried residents FailureToCommunicate Feb 2016 #12

That's going to bite them in the mass Renew Deal Feb 2016 #14

*golf clap* Codeine Feb 2016 #20

*giggle* farleftlib Feb 2016 #23

I read the article and I still don't understand why that fuckhead GOP suckass governor wants valerief Feb 2016 #15

Free public land to his closest relatives The Second Stone Feb 2016 #16

DUzy!!!! valerief Feb 2016 #33

The Governor wants to look like he restoring wildlife, without getting anyone mad at him for doing happyslug Feb 2016 #28

You can bet some crazy guy will go there womanofthehills Feb 2016 #31

Because the snakes are endangered? Gormy Cuss Feb 2016 #41

Where will they put the non-venomous rattlesnakes? Ptah Feb 2016 #18

80% of all snakes are non-venomous happyslug Feb 2016 #22

Which rattlesnakes are not venomous? Ptah Feb 2016 #25

None, but 80% of all snakes are Constrictors not vipers. happyslug Feb 2016 #29

The point I am trying to make is that the headline is redundant. Ptah Feb 2016 #36

All rattlesnakes are venomous womanofthehills Feb 2016 #30

Grew Up not 2 miles from a huge den in CT One_Life_To_Give Feb 2016 #21

In NM, most of the rattlesnake bites womanofthehills Feb 2016 #27

The Pennsylvania Fish Commission makes the same report happyslug Feb 2016 #32

I just learned that they're in virtually all large parks and open spaces William Seger Feb 2016 #40

It is NEVER wise to introduce an invasive species of anything world wide wally Feb 2016 #35

Rattlesnakes are not invasive; they are native to the area NickB79 Feb 2016 #38

I've dealt with more rattlesnakes than I ever cared to Bayard Feb 2016 #42

They are native and endangered. It's like re-introducing wolves. mainer Feb 2016 #43