Big Red Porkers should be brought up on child endangerment charges!!!

etothepii · 06-28-2006, 07:19 AM

If the croc hunter endangered his child by bringing him (her?) into the croc area during feeding (one time), then BRP should be locked up for raising kids in shuch a deadly area:
http://www.huntingnet.com//forum/tm.aspx?m=1579872

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what my 7 year old and 5 year old found today

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I killed anotehr copperhead about this size not 20 yards from where this one was last week - and those were both within 20 yards of my house. Not comforting but other than keeping the woods beat back best you can you can't do anything to eliminate the snakes

Can you imagine a parent being so careless with his kids?

Big Red Porkers · 06-28-2006, 07:41 AM

if you live near an earthquake fault, you should haveyour kids removed
if you live anywhere near a volcanic region - kids removed
if you live near mudslide areas - kids removed
anywhere costal where hurricanes could hit - kids removed

etothepii you cannot removed the element of nature when living in the woods. I teach my kids, I do all the safegaurds I can, but i wouldn't remove the elements of nature if I could.

its called being raised in the country. City slickers don't get it

Tazman · 06-28-2006, 08:15 AM

When I read the thread title the first thing that popped into my head was "Not again!"

NCOutdoors · 06-28-2006, 08:19 AM

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etothepiiÂ* you cannot removed the element of nature when living in the woods.

But you can remove the kids from that element of nature - the woods.

Tazman · 06-28-2006, 08:23 AM

NC although I have yet to find a copperhead in my fenced in back yard, I can honestly say I would not be suprised to one day.

NC are you suggesting not taking ones kids into the woods?

Double Creek · 06-28-2006, 09:03 AM

Found a cottonmouth in my yard Monday.... And I live in town.......

POC · 06-28-2006, 09:06 AM

That's ridiculous. Kids have to learn to respect nature. How are they going to do that if they are deprived of experiencing it? I'm not advocating putting your children in deliberate danger, but I'd rather they face a copperhead than a child molester anyday.

etothepii · 06-28-2006, 09:23 AM

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ORIGINAL: POC

That's ridiculous. Kids have to learn to respect nature. How are they going to do that if they are deprived of experiencing it? I'm not advocating putting your children in deliberate danger, but I'd rather they face a copperhead than a child molester anyday.

Interesting. I wouldn't have thought it possible to bring Michael Jackson into this debate... But I guess if a parent is willing to raise their son around deadly snakes, then shipping him off for the weekend in Michael's bedroom isn't so bad either, right?

kevin1 · 06-28-2006, 09:24 AM

Recently , my youngest son was taking down the remnants of an old chicken coop that the weather had knocked over , only to find a whole nest of Copperheads . Since my grandkids play in the yard a lot I took the opportunity to show them pics of Copperheads and the few other poisonous serpents indigenous to Indiana and warned them to stay in the mowed areas of the yard . They were also instructed to not play with any snake without first coming to get Papaw to see if it would kill them . I oughta be shot ...

POC · 06-28-2006, 09:51 AM

That's not the point. If children are taught to be afraid of everything becausethey might be harmed, there is no fun left. Snakes, unlike some humans, are not malicious nordo they waste energy or venom if they don'tneed to. Most snakes in the US are non-poisonous anyway.

http://www.fda.gov/FDAC/features/995_snakes.html

I remember finding a nest of newly hatched non-poisonous snakes when I was a kid in Texas. I scooped up a few to show Mom and I thought she'd have a heart attack. I never did that again. On the other hand, we would see rattlers around and just knew to give them wide berth.

Of course we also had scorpions that would come into the house on occasion and black widow spiders.