this must be Australia's version of seasonally repeating news reports.

I didn't know Austria had snakes?

Reads like an Onion article.

Get these motherfarkin' snakes off my motherfarkin' continent!

This story was better than the Drunken sex story in the sidebar?

Oh, phew, Melbourne *AUSTRALIA*... I was worried to drive into town today...

cgraves67: this must be Australia's version of seasonally repeating news reports.

Came here to say this.

/"but for me it was Tuesday. . . "

FTFA: "It is illegal and totally unsafe for Joe Public to mess with snakes," he said.

Illegal? WTF??

This is Australia we're talking about.

So in other words, typical Thursday.

/Actually it's Friday morning there now

While they are at it they should probably watch out for badgers as well

/mushroom

LostInTO: I didn't know Austria had snakes?



I didn't know declarative sentences ended with question marks

Just stepping outside the house in Australia puts one in mortal peril. Everything there can kill you - snakes, spiders, jellyfish... For that matter, snakes there can get inside and kill you in your own home.

Australia: where everything wants to kill you.

Just think maybe, just maybe, we weren't really meant to live there.

No Florida tag?

I'm in Melbourne, Florida, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments...

But now wait ... what KIND of snakes? The article never states it. Are they handsome little harmless garter snakes, rat snakes, etc., or are they some super-killing-machine Greater Orange Mambas that you can't even LOOK AT without doubling over in crippling pain???

/made up the "greater orange" part
//sounded cool, though
///mambas, however, are real

StrikitRich: No Florida tag?

cherry3m: I'm in Melbourne, Florida, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments...

So you may be the only one here who might get my subtle comment.

Experts have warned of an increase in encounters between snakes and people, which is normal as the weather warms up and both species start to get out more.

Snakes are not a species.

/pedantic
//also, site contains malicious javascript (Tynt or similar) that breaks browser copy functionality.

Huck And Molly Ziegler: But now wait ... what KIND of snakes? The article never states it. Are they handsome little harmless garter snakes, rat snakes, etc., or are they some super-killing-machine Greater Orange Mambas that you can't even LOOK AT without doubling over in crippling pain???

Well, where I grew up, in the back yard we have found the basically harmless ones like red-bellied blacks (they probably won't kill you if you get bitten) that eat the other snakes, copperheads (not the same as the North American ones, listed in wikipedia as having venom "by Australian standards, only moderately toxic (equal on a per-mg basis to that of the Indian cobra)".

Then you have the Brown Snakes and Tiger Snakes, both of which are exceedingly venomous and aggressive.

One thing about living in Santa Carla Melbourne I never could stomach, all the damn vampires giant snakes.



/too much of a stretch?
//Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn

StrikitRich: StrikitRich: No Florida tag?

cherry3m: I'm in Melbourne, Florida, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments...

So you may be the only one here who might get my subtle comment.

*waves hand*

jtr: LostInTO: I didn't know Austria had snakes?



I didn't know declarative sentences ended with question marks

Since when has grammer been important on Fark?

"It is illegal and totally unsafe for Joe Public to mess with snakes,"


/Joe Public unavailable for comment.

The Irresponsible Captain: Just think maybe, just maybe, we weren't really meant to live there.

People have been living here for forty thousand years.

"Encounters with snakes are certainly not common, but doctors treat a handful of patients for snake bites each year, many of which could have been avoided," he said.

"If you are bitten, seek urgent medical attention and try to remember the colour or shape of the snake. This will help with treatment."

Enough bandages to bandage and splint an entire leg are an essential first-aid item in areas where people are likely to encounter snakes."

You probably won't encounter any snakes, but you'll likely encounter snakes.

I have a cousin that just relocated to Melbourne, Australia and besides the snakes, its the spiders (which he has huge issues with) are everywhere. And naturally, some kind of fanged evil killing spider was in his kitchen sink and he went all beserker on it. I wish I was there to document the carnage and then chase him all over the house with a severed spider leg.

BeowulfSmith: One thing about living in Santa Carla Melbourne I never could stomach, all the damn vampires giant snakes.

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/too much of a stretch?
//Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn

No. Not too much of a stretch at all.
/still the best vampire movies ever made.

It seems that the anti-venom is being delivered by another courier. But that's OK because *thud*

/remember that commercial?

Huck And Molly Ziegler: But now wait ... what KIND of snakes? The article never states it. Are they handsome little harmless garter snakes, rat snakes, etc., or are they some super-killing-machine Greater Orange Mambas that you can't even LOOK AT without doubling over in crippling pain???


It's Australia. What do you think?

/From Melbourne.
//The non-florida one.