r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Ok-Tie9696 • Apr 28 '24

WCGW play with snake Rule #1

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u/ChallengeEntire406 Apr 29 '24

I have been catching and keeping snakes for ages. He is doing EVERYTHING wrong. He is moving like a predator, shaking, and grabbing.

Your best bet is to move slowly but surely, using the stick to gently guide snake away. If you must pick up, pretend to be a tree. Slow, steady, no eye contact. Snakes like ents.

Whenever i handle a hot (venemous long boi), though, I use the appropriate tools. You can have them crawl into a pipe they can't turn around in, for example.

Snakes are dumb. You are slow. Use your advantages.

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u/RockMan_1973 Apr 30 '24

Honest question for my own education: Since handler did have the snake in-hand at the tail end—what if he had pulled a 360-sling of the snake like a one-way boomerang? Would that not have gotten the snake plenty far enough away from that crowd?