you won't believe what was in the pool this morning... (Page 3)

"So do you think Pvt DD would have taken that snake out of the pool and set it free or would he have killed it? Never underestimate people's fear. :-). "

Private D.D. killed everything. It's what he did.

Hey cool.  Nothing like a story that I was involved with to get me back on BT for the first time in looooong time.

I was the guy that went in to get the snake.  I used to be deathly afriad of them.  Then, when I had moved into a subdivsion that was getting developed, I had to pull them out of my garage all the time.  Didn't want to kill them because they'd take care of any unwanted pests that might be out to chew wires, dig holes, etc.  So, I just learned how to tail grab them and toss them over a fence into the woods.

Anyway, I had the net on a pole, dove down to where it was camped out on the bottom, got him to swim into it.  Swam back to the wall, handed it off to the lifeguard who then proceeded to somehow let the snake out.  It fled up under the big ladder they put in when the seniors do their deep water aerobics.  Everyone was flipping out.  I pulled the ladder out a bit to get a look at it.  It was just a Queen Snake, maybe a Rat Snake.  I went over to open the sliding doors planning to just flip it outside, and that's when the water aerobics instructor lady came flying in with a metal folding chair and bludgeoned it. 

Sad ending for the snake.  Nice meal for some buzzards I guess.  Oh well.