Hey Vernon, this Threads for you, SNAKE stories, Pranks

[MoCarp]

Once I was getting ready for an estate auction for my Late Father-in-law, and had a friend's 13 year old son in tow for compensated slave labor. On the way to the auction's location with a load of items for the sale, We saw a big king snake or hognose crossing the road, looked and acted just like a rattler, but was harmless, we coaxed the puffing, hissing, striking snake into a pickle jar with a big thistle stalk, put on the lid and headed down the road......every 30 sec or so the young lad would open the lid to "let in fresh air", and it would aggravate that snake to no end, each time he opened the lid made that snake madder and madder...then off in the distance was the unmistakable silhouette of a mail carrier.s jeep, dust cloud in tow .....now in our area mail boxes can be miles apart, and people our way learn to make your mail box bash proof...this mail box next up for that carrier was the larger rural type, fence post and rusty dairy milk can full of rocks and concrete, if it gets wacked or backed over you just stand it back up.....

We stopped, then poured the jar full of cranky snake in that mailbox and put the flag up,.... Then proceeded to the location of the auction, gave the carrier a wave as we drove past him on that gravel road it..... was warming up that day and on our way back we were going to turn the snake loose, not completely sure Mr Mail Man would release said reptile....yet on the way back we could not find the mailbox..after about the 3rd pass the young man I was with spotted it in the ditch mail scattered everywhere, the image in my head of a mail carrier hand deep in a mailbox with a pissed off snake for all the world he thinks is a rattler is priceless

[MOPanfisher]

I have had two deputies/law enforcement types over the years threaten to shoot me over a snake.  One just flat said he would shoot me if I came close to him with the black snake I had caught.  The second didn't realize I had a speckled kingsnake wrapped around my arm when he walked up to me, he dropped his hand to his gun and began backing away, stating I will shoot you if you throw that thing at me, got in his car and left.  Then there is the meanest prank of all times for someone who truly fears snakes.  put a dead snake in the floor board of their car, tie a piece of fishing line to the door so that when they open the door the snake "jumps" out at them.  Hint, only do this to people who are smaller than you (they get violent) and those who do not carry fire arms.  Imagine if you will, Vernon opening a compartment on his shiny boat, and a snake jumps up.  For some people it would be a very dangerous prank, they would happily injure themselves or you to get a way or possibly have a heart attack.  I however draw the line at doing things to peoples private vehicles because karma sucks and so does retribution.

[terryj1024]

I think if I found a snake in my glove box on the boat I'd have a heart attack

[MoCarp]