DomainK Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Since we are talking about snakes, anyone has any interesting experience share?
Ram Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Since we are talking about snakes' date=' anyone has any interesting experience share?[/quote'] Yes, I have seen a few in the zoo. Thats my most interesting experience with snakes. :D
Online Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Is it some snake video.....?:omg_smile: I am not clicking it!:confused_smile: no! it's just a cool Dravid video...i thought it may help calm your nerves :wtg:
Desi Cartman Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Play this song loud and watch them all come out dancing :dance: fOFogcZIT4I&feature=related
ludhianvi Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Beetle, it must've been a scary experience. A similar incident happened with one of my relatives. He was in the washroom taking a shower and there was a freaking snake in the washroom. The guy didnt panic and put on his clothes before coming out, and then he started yelling about the snake. I may have been tempted to just get out of the washroom asap:tounge_smile: The snake was wiped out with a blow to this head with a stick. Also recall, people used to hire 'been wallas' or snake charmers to get the snakes out of their houses and they used to have these scary looking dogs with them as well.
Chaos Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 beetle i will send a Snake as a gift for you, take good care of him, the snake is named, Dravid.
Rajiv Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 ..this reminds me, when I was married I stepped down in the building to buy something and this drunk guy was out with a snake and was showing it off to a girl. I was like I will call the cops on you if you don't go back to your apartment Funny part is when I went back, my wife said " why didn't you call me downstairs ", I just kept quiet
beetle Posted July 19, 2008 Author Posted July 19, 2008 Long time back...a friend of my had the same experience. He was all soaped up and ready to shower when he saw a snake coming into the bathroom through the broken drain cover. The guy had the presence of mind to open the hot water tap but didn't have the presence of mind to cover up. He ran out Nangu Pangu out of the bathroom straight out of the house. He was a sardar and had his hair soaped and open . We called him nanga baba was months.....:hysterical::hysterical:
Rajiv Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 IN above case, saamp nikhal hi aaya :haha: P.S Rad, kidhar hain India mein..
beetle Posted July 19, 2008 Author Posted July 19, 2008 This same guy was once sleeping out side with his other siblings. In the morning the servant pulled of the sheet of his bed to find two big snakes curled up with him . He got the scare of his life...but it was his mom who screamed around crying...mera putttar marjata...mera p[uttar mar jata!:--D
sandtest Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Hi beetle, a few days back there was news of a dedicated helpline for snake catching during Mansoon rainy season in Delhi and safely transposrting them dedicated places. Here is the news and helpline number mentioned in this is -- 9871963535, Hope they may offer some suggestions.. NDTV NEW DELHI: This monsoon, if you find a snake hissing inside your house, just don't panic or cause it any harm. All you need to do is dial a helpline (9871963535) and dedicated snake trappers will be at your doorstep to help you. Wildlife SOS (WSOS), run by a group of nature lovers, has been serving the denizens for the past 13 years. It claims to be doing a two-pronged rescue act -- prevents people from snake bites and takes out the reptile to the wild, their safe fiefdom. A 24-hour reptile rescue centre is functioning at a makeshift office at Defence Colony here. There are four teams in Delhi with seven experts in catching snakes. Regular phone calls on snakes number around four a day but they go up to eight during the monsoon. Karthik Satyanarayan co-founded the WSOS in 1995 along with Geeta Seshamani. Now, as he looks back, he says experts at its units in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi have rescued hundreds of snakes over the years. "As a child, I was compassionate to birds and animals and when I grew up I took it up as a mission. We are working in collaboration with forest and wildlife departments," Satyanarayan said. "I don't ascribe any religious tone to my love for snakes. They are god's creation and part of nature. I am just chipping in my bit to preserve the nature. People kill them mistaking them as dangerous." 34-year-old Satyanarayan, who runs a solar electrical company, said "snakes ante-date men. They have been crawling on this planet even in Jurassic age". As part of rehabilitating snake charmers, WSOS has engaged 25 'joginaths' (traditional charmers) in the group. The group favours extraction of venom but only if it is for medicinal use. "Abuse of venom for business and as drugs cannot be accepted," he said. But Satyanarayan said his mission is facing fund crunch as "beneficiaries" hesitate to donate. "Once we catch a snake, we need to take it to the wild. It involves travelling expense. In most of the cases, we don't get even 20 per cent of the expense. Many give us meager amounts of Rs 10 or Rs 50, when the whole process entails Rs 200 or more." Snakes caught from Delhi are often taken to Kalesar forest in Haryana. Citing his own example he said "though I am not a trained snake handler, not even once I was bitten by a snake. It all depends on the knack and care in handling them". Sheshmani, also a senior reader at Gargi College said, the society was founded in response to the "increasing need to rescue the urban wild life. The fast-pace urbanisation has seen man intruding into the natural habitats of animals. "Though we develop parks as a substitute to natural forests, the trees there don't suit birds to build nests nor bear fruits that serve to the taste of animals," she said. Stressing on careful handling of snakes Nitin Sorohi, a field worker with WSOS, said "I have never seen a snake getting injured during the rescue operation." The society has one message to those who might even think of killing snakes -- Injuring or harming a snake is a punishable offence under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080056317&ch=7/9/2008%201:57:00%20PM
coffee_rules Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 I have a similar phobia of insects. The large flying ones. Roaches tht fly creep me the most. Once we had a small flying bat in our house. Creepy slimy things. Given a chance, I will rid the earth of all insects. Frickin pests.
DomainK Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 I have a similar phobia of insects. The large flying ones. Roaches tht fly creep me the most. Once we had a small flying bat in our house. Creepy slimy things. Given a chance' date=' I will rid the earth of all insects. Frickin pests.[/quote'] Reminds me how I had spent one night with a sparrow in my room. It got in late evening, was very scared and though I tried to lead it out of the window by switching off all lights, it just kept flying around the room and refused to go out of the winow. Finally I gave up and spent the night with the sparrow inside. I could not switch on the fan though as I feared it could kill the sparrow. I had kept the window opena and when I woke up, it was gone. Must have flown out when it saw the first light outside.
beetle Posted July 19, 2008 Author Posted July 19, 2008 Reminds me how I had spent one night with a sparrow in my room. It got in late evening' date=' was very scared and though I tried to lead it out of the window by switching off all lights, it just kept flying around the room and refused to go out of the winow. Finally I gave up and spent the night with the sparrow inside. I could not switch on the fan though as I feared it could kill the sparrow. I had kept the window opena and when I woke up, it was gone. Must have flown out when it saw the first light outside.[/quote'] Sparrows are a fast disappearing bird in India.... Few people are trying to keep them going. Gone are the days when we could see them all over the place....:(( I am quiet ok with most creepy crawlies. I have no problem picking earthworms,centipedes,beetles ,caterpillers with my hands and putting them in safer places.Love spiders of all shapes and sizes.....Don't mind moths and lizards .I don't find even cockroaches creepy....just find them disgusting because they are dirty. I admire the beauty and elegance of snakes too........but only in open spaces. If I had seen this snake outside the netting instead of inside the net ...I would have clicked a picture and enjoyed it .It's just that I have a completely different reaction on seeing them in enclosed place with me also in that space. I freeze and get totally creeped out!. I know a girl who freezes in fright when she sees abutterfly.Another who is dead scared of pigeons....
DomainK Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Sparrows are a fast disappearing bird in India.... Few people are trying to keep them going. Gone are the days when we could see them all over the place....:(( I am quiet ok with most creepy crawlies. I have no problem picking earthworms,centipedes,beetles ,caterpillers with my hands and putting them in safer places.Love spiders of all shapes and sizes.....Don't mind moths and lizards .I don't find even cockroaches creepy....just find them disgusting because they are dirty. I admire the beauty and elegance of snakes too........but only in open spaces. If I had seen this snake outside the netting instead of inside the net ...I would have clicked a picture and enjoyed it .It's just that I have a completely different reaction on seeing them in enclosed place with me also in that space. I freeze and get totally creeped out!. I know a girl who freezes in fright when she sees abutterfly.Another who is dead scared of pigeons.... Though I have seen many snakes from my childhood, I am not at all comfortabke in presence of one. I am not scared ofother crawlers and reptiles, but I can not touch them.
The Outsider Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Little one? Congratulations beetle! Yeah I missed that earlier! Congrats and best wishes!
coffee_rules Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Even crows are a problem in India. Once a baby crow had fallen out from the nest in front of our house. The mama crow kept attacking anybody who walked near the tree. It did for about 3 days as the baby crow died. In the Montreal Insectorium, there was a cuisine show about how different people in the world still eat insects. A tribe in Brazil survives on ants. They fried roaches in front of us and dared us to eat it. I have eaten a dead fired roach. Tasted like crackers.
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