Would never believe it if it had not happened to me

old · Aug 9, 2012

Went to start an old piece of junk riding mower to do a bit of grass/weed cutting to open up things so I can maybe shoot pest. Well first thing I did wrong was forgot to turn the ignition on. I have to jumper the starter on it so any how. Went to start it and low and behold a opossum comes running out from under it and across my foot. Had the 410 there so dropped the jumper wire and grabbed the 410 and well if did not get far. But boy did it surprise the heck out of me.

SweetFeet · Aug 9, 2012

Old,
Laughing my head off... can visualize it all so well. When that happens you gotta do the Possum Stomp! Don't ask my husband how he knows.

Glad you got him!

wisbaker · Aug 9, 2012

So now you don't have to mow right? Doing you part to reduce greenhouse gasses.

2x4 · Aug 9, 2012

had that happen, only with a skunk. We both ran out of the garage, only at opposite ends.

Old Timer in Ohio · Aug 9, 2012

Hey there;
About 73 years ago, we had a "problem" with "RATS"
in the hen house. Those critters would raid it in broad daylight. One time I ran to get "Mom" with our rat gun it was illegle at time. (Stevens single action .410 pistol 12 in. barrel). Anyhow """Mom stood right next to me. Fired that gun, right into the ground, between us, blew a nice hole about 4 in. NEVER called Mom again!!

NCWayne · Aug 10, 2012

Was down at the shop last summer when the wife comes in and hands me the cordless with a phone call. Can't remember exactly what it was about but I do remember I was kind of deep in thought and involved in the conversation. I've got a pull rope hanging from the overhead door to pull it down. I was walking around as I talked and felt something hit my hat as I walked under the door. Thought it was the pull rope....for about two seconds...... That was when the 'object' that hit my hat decided to come around the front edge of the brim, grab onto and cross my face, and procede make it's way own down the front of me to the ground. I was doing my best to get away cause I didn't have a clue what was running across my face......Wife says I was dancing, and I DON'T DANCE...LOL...not the mention the lady on the phone heard a few choice four letter words fly.... Anyway, turns out it was big, green anull (about a 6-7" long lizard) that was the culprite. At the time all I knew is it wasn't the pull rope, it was living, and it suprised the crap out of me....

wisbaker · Aug 10, 2012

Old timer- I had a similar incident with a 20 Gage, only it was me on the trigger. I was home on leave and hit the rats a little close spreading pellets all over. The rest of the time I was home Dad was mumbling something about how officers, especially 2 LTs shouldn't be allowed to have guns.

Billy Shafer · Aug 10, 2012

Early one morning. I was sitting on the ground working on a generator. Felt something in my lap. Looked down to find a rattlesnake moving out of my lap. I think I did everything you could do in your pants except move.Old farmer that owned the land I was on. Said he was harmless because he was just cold and looking to warm up.Well that snake sure messed up my pants.

RBnSC · Aug 10, 2012

I think I might have set a record for The Standing Back Jump when cleaning up some short pieces of lumber and found a coiled up Copper Head right where I was about to put my hand. I also said a bad word while in the air.
Ron

Anonymous-0 · Aug 10, 2012

(quoted from post at 03:37:40 08/10/12) I think I might have set a record for The Standing Back Jump when cleaning up some short pieces of lumber and found a coiled up Copper Head right where I was about to put my hand. I also said a bad word while in the air.
Ron

I used to fool with snakes all the time as a kid. Only poisonous snake we had then was copperheads and I had never seen one to know what it was..... Moved some stuff one day and saw a cute little snake about 4 inches long and grabbed it to go show dad and a family friend (who I soon found out was deathly afraid of snakes)... Dad slapped my hand hard enough that he almost broke it to get the snake away from us and the friend ran over and mashed it under his boot. Then I think he hadda clean his drawers a little. We went and dug out the rest of the junk and killed 3 grown snakes and I know exactly what a copperhead looks like now. They said if the little one had bit me it would have killed me... Think they were just trying to build up my fear of snakes tho (??).....

Charlie M · Aug 10, 2012

When the bees start coming out of stuff that's been sitting is when I get nervous.

jackinok · Aug 10, 2012

LOL. i did pretty much the same once working on a cultivator. needed a part so i went over to an old one in the weeds and was pulling it off.got it off and when i went to pickup tools i dropped a wrench.bent over to pick it up and was eye to eye with a skunk.i guess he had been there all the time.needless to say he kept that wrench.

Nancy Howell · Aug 10, 2012

We have a Howse fertilizer spreader that's shaped like a funnel. Went to look at it for some reason and a possum had gotten down in it and couldn't get out. Don't know how long he'd been there. He was still alive, so turned the spreader over and he took off.

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

Young ones can't regulate the amount of venom, so they empty out in the initial strike, and you get a full dose.

Mike (WA) · Aug 10, 2012

Noticed a big hornets nest (the black and white ones- mean as a snake) on the loader frame of an "inoperative" tractor. Called the guy who advertises that he picks up yellowjacket nests for free. He didn't seem too excited about coming out- said a hornets nest has to be really big to have enough hornets to be worthwhile, and that I should wait a couple weeks to see how big it gets, then call him back.

My grandkids like to play on the equipment, so believe I'll go with Plan B- as soon as its light enough to see tomorrow morning, gonna empty a can of spray at it. If you saturate those paper nests, they fall apart, and any that didn't get it in the first assault get done in when they try to repair the nest.

Don't know what happened to the yellowjackets this year- don't believe I've seen one all summer. Maybe the plague. . .

NCWayne · Aug 10, 2012

Your better off to wait until it's just about dark to get them instead of waiting until first light. We had a huge one under an old grill a few years back. In that instance we waited until evening and then lit a fire under it to smoke/burn them out. Personally I would have loved to have been able to save the nest as big as it was, but with those black and white suckers there was no way I was going to take any chances. If I remember correctly we counted nearly 75 of them that fell out on the ground so a nest of upset hornets wouldn't have been a good thing at all........

Huskers86 · Aug 10, 2012

We had a guy up on top of the grain bin oiling the chain on the auger and I opened up the bin door and a coon went up the inside ladder, poped out the man hole on top and jumped down to the ground and went running. Needless to say the hired man about fell off the bin when the bugger went across his legs. Thank god he didn't fall.

RBnSC · Aug 10, 2012

My brother took hub off a trailer axle and found a baby copperhead in the brake drum. He picked it up but miscalculated how close to the head to grab it. It reached around to bite him on the thumb but being cold and the hard skin where he tried to bite saved him.
Ron

Dave in GA · Aug 10, 2012

The yellow jackets are in Georgia. They got me last weekend.

Dave in GA · Aug 10, 2012

Reminds me the commercial on TV a few years ago of the large hornet nest up under the soffit of a tall house, and a man climbing up a ladder with a weed whacker to get rid of fit.

Billy NY · Aug 10, 2012

The damage some venom can cause to human tissue is incredible, I don't mind snakes, but I'd stay way clear of them as best can be done.

My approach to anything that sits in this area, in warm months, be it a vehicle, equipment, materials or overgrown areas is to use extreme caution just for bees, and wasps. If I was in venomous snake areas, I'd be sure to carry a long stick, pole or rod to check the above, they can just do too much damage in such a short period of time, very intimidating when thinking about getting bit by a snake with potent venom.

Gambles · Aug 10, 2012

Several years ago, I got up early one morning while it was still dark and I went out to feed my hobby chickens. I had a 40 lb. bag of store-bought chicken feed right next to the pen that was about half full and I picked it up to walk into the chicken house. All at once there was a heck of a commotion inside the bag and a 'possum jumped out of the bag and ran off. Scared the you-know-what out of me. (Well, almost)
The worst part of it all was that my two big, fierce dogs were sleeping about 40 feet DOWNWIND of this 'possum while he was eating chicken feed and they didn't even see see him when he ran off. I didn't think too much of my dogs that day.

Straw Boss · Aug 11, 2012

I poked at a coon with a broom handle once.
I heard him behind the fridge in my shop.
I got him all sorts of pi--ed off with growling and spittin and stuff.
When I got him moving out of there and got a good look at him, I sure was surprised to find he was black and white.
I got the same feeling you get when you back up your pickup in the yard and when you pull away, you notice in the mirror you just missed the wifes car by about 3 inches.

Helluva Engineer · Aug 11, 2012

My Kid's Story:

Working in a small hometown lumberyard this summer, we had a wasp problem. It was in one of those half barrells on a stand inside a shed. Emptied two cans of raid into them, only seemed to nnalert them off.

Everybody's got that one guy they work with who doesn't seem all there after the 70's. That one guy, Jerry, grabbed a can of ether and a lighter.

Math time: one can of ether plus two cans of Raid. The ensuing sonic boom nearly ripped the roof off the shed. Jerry didn't even flinch, just looked over at us with a big smile and said "I got 'em!"

Singed bug guts were everywhere: all over the ceiling, all over us, all over the tools and everything else. At least the wasps were gone, I guess.

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