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But had the good instinct to head directly for the BBQ!  That's the third one we get in our backyard.... I'm really not a fan of these guys! Garden snakes in Canada didn't bother me, in fact I used to play with them when I was a kid. This is different, a bit bigger and always the possibility of a set of fangs coming my way....
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What kind of snake is it? Is it poisonous?
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"Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots..."
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What kind of snake is it? Is it poisonous?
That one wasn't too bad.
It's called a "Taiwan Beauty snake".
But we get a nice variety of interesting ones like: cobras, umbrellas, bamboos (almost invisible and deadly), pythons, boas (thanks to the Japanese occupation...imported for torture and released in the wild when they had to flee) and my favorite of all... the 100-pacer (story goes that if you get bit, you got a 100 steps before you drop dead)
Had an encounter in a dark tunnel with a boa once, while riding on a motorcycle. That thing was as big as a tree! And when it saw my lights, it went straight at me! Never made a 180 inside a narrow tunnel that fast ... ever!
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Dude... I hear ya on the snake vs. being a Canuck thing. Here in Canada we don't have too many dangerous snakes (maybe the odd rattler here and there) so we're really not used to the whole idea. But when I lived in Africa we were inundated with a variety of 'if-I-wanted-to-I-could-really-mess-you-up' kinda snakes! Black Mambas, Puff Adders, Spitting Cobras, Pythons, Boas and so on. I never did get used to that... especially when they were IN MY HOUSE!!!!!! I won't even get into some of the exotic types of spiders I ran across, and once again... ESPECIALLY IN MY HOUSE!!! 
Live to love, love to live.
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I live in the sun downunder
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When I lived in Africa we were inundated with a variety of 'if-I-wanted-to-I-could-really-mess-you-up' kinda snakes! Black Mambas, Puff Adders, Spitting Cobras, Pythons, Boas and so on. I never did get used to that... especially when they were IN MY HOUSE!!!!!! I won't even get into some of the exotic types of spiders I ran across, and once again... ESPECIALLY IN MY HOUSE!!!
Sounds just like where I live.. 
I was mowing the side paddock a few weeks ago and felt something on my right leg, looked down and found a 2 foot Brown snake climbing up it. 
Never got off the mower so fast in my all life. 
FrankW
Ex Speedmaster rider, went to the Dark Side now riding an America.
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Dude... I hear ya on the snake vs. being a Canuck thing.
Yep it is!
Locals here are quite found of those "pests" 
When the firefighters came over to pick up the snake, they said that snakes bring you luck when they come to your house! eh?
They also asked if we wanted to keep it to cook it... delicious in soup, they said... euuuhhh.. nope that's fine! (funny way to show your respects to the thing that brings you luck! eat it!)
Snakes are also used in traditional chinese medicine.
Also, I started a discussion with some students about the kinds of pet they had and what did it eat... a student (girl!) said rabbits... Oh, so you have rabbits then? they are cute, right? ... Yeah, but they are the food.... Eh???? ... My pet is a 10m python, we keep it in the yard behind the house....
Yeah, we are different. But it just makes it interesting!
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I'll stick the the occasional rattler we have here in the desert and no I'm not eating one...wow different cultures. Snakes give me the creeps, spiders are fine as I can kill them with one swipe, but not snakes. 
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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Shoulda grabbed him up and threw him on the grill.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Good thing a stray dog didn't wander into your backyard 
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we get alot of gopher snakes.
i like to catch them and put them in the gopher holes.
If it isn't broke, I haven't messed with it.
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When the firefighters came over to pick up the snake, they said that snakes bring you luck when they come to your house! eh?
They also asked if we wanted to keep it to cook it... delicious in soup, they said... euuuhhh.. nope that's fine! (funny way to show your respects to the thing that brings you luck! eat it!)
A free lunch? Now thats lucky
Too old to die young, too ugly to leave a good looking corpse
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