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My buddy Tom [guide, hunter, falconer, animal re-habber ect ect] showed up to take me turkey hunting. Get out there, couldn't find my led light. Stumble around in the dark, lost my scope caps. Went to set up ground blind, poles for roof are trashed, looks like they got drove over. Ok, I'm planning on sticking a turkey anyhow. Next my swivel 360 degree turkey seat busts in half and drops my fat a$$ on the sopping wet ground. Well, I sit/squat/kneel for about 20 minutes, then remember Tom had a bucket in his vehicle, ain't too far, soI go get it. Thats where he finds me about 8:30 turkeyless. Here's the good part. He asks me if I know what's in the bucket. Ya'll wanna take a guess???? SNAKES!!! Come to find out he's got "about" ONE HUNDRED TWENTY of them in the vehicle, all venomous!! Yup, was sitting on a 7' Diamond back, a few copperheads, and one "very nasty" cottonmouth. He's even got a coral snake in there some where, and wait now, were not done yet, how do you suppose he's got the other 105 or so, give or take a few fangs penned up??? Pillow cases!! I get to looking and there's squirming hissing pillow cases everywhere. He was taking them from winter storage at his house to his re-hab/zoo facility at nearby state park. We're going back out in the a.m. but I'm DRIVING.

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Just out of curiosity, does he carry a snake bite kit with him?:eek:

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10 PT: In a word, no. He's been bit so many times he's built up some kind of immunity. This guy is a local legend, he got stopped a few years ago on a safety road block, he had a bear in passenger seat, a mountain lion in back seat, and an alligator on the back floor. Needless to say the officer was flabbergasted. When he asked Tom if he had insurance and registration, Tom said "Yes, but there is a cobra in the glove box and I'd rather not open it." Officer opened the glovebox and a cobra rose up, hood spread and hissed at him. The officer was new in town, and told him to get that **** off the road! Too many tickets to write! He's rehabbed over 5000 hawks, 2000 owls, 41 Eagles, 12 bears ect. ect. Only in Arkansas!!

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Thats hilarious Dan.... I wish I was there to see your face!
10pt, they don't need a snake bite kit, they need life insurance.:D

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Thank Goodness:D

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Too funny!

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I wanna live in Arkansas!

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Since the bear was in the passenger seat, did it have to wear a seat belt?

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No it couldn't bear to wear it! LOL

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wonder why no squirrel?

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The bear needed a snack!

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You bet cha L O L .

Remember( MURPHY'S LAW ) if anything can go wrong it will.

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The bear is named "Harold" he's a 600 lb. cinnamon, crippled somewhat from broken hip, on display at Queen Wilhemena State park 3 miles from me. The mountain lion "Sheena" is there too, Tom gets in the cage w/ her and plays like she's a house cat, she is very tame and affectionate. Bear in mind the traffic deal was several years ago, the bear was still a cub, and the lion a kitten. Some animals get "humanized" during re-hab, and have to be either kept for educational purposes or put down. There is a grey fox there that's free to leave, but lives in a tree, I've never seen him off of the branch he's on in 4 years. Every spring this guy saves 30-40 fawns that people bring him that they should have left alone, and they have to be fed every 2 1/2 hrs, which takes three people as you have to put a tube down their throat, don't ask why, I don't know and I've helped on many. He's got a black buzzard "Buzzy" that had to be caged after he ate a $300 Harley seat. Tom would come out of Mal-Wart and the buzzard would have flown off the mountain and be sitting on the cab of his truck! Tom lives in town 12 miles from zoo. Just some local trivia thought ya'll might find interesting.

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sounds like you had a heck of a day there Dan.. that many snakes I would have walked home..

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Cause squirrels have flea's! Wow ain't had a day like that in a long time thank God. Oh well such is live![&o]