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Old 03-19-2012, 05:32 PM   #1
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I was reading something that I just had to share with everyone. It made me laugh so hard! This person was asking if you could put pepper spray on a rattle to scare off snakes while hiking. Everyone was kind of confused and was asking him why he wanted to do that, and why did he not just leave the snakes alone. Then he comes back and says sorry for the confusion. He meant to ask if you can pepper spray a snake that is ready to strike you! I was picturing this whole scenario in my head, and it was just too funny. I might follow this guy out in the woods one day, to see how he pepper sprays a snake!


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Old 03-19-2012, 06:57 PM   #2
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At 40 bucks a spray, I'll walk around the snake and we both can go our way. After spraying a snake, I would not trust that can to have enough left for a bear.


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I saw a guy pepper spray a toad once, just as an experiment. The toad apparently didn't like it. But a snake? I wonder if it would even do anything?


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People have such misconceptions on animal behavior.

Laugh or cry, your choice.


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Considering the fact that even an old man with a cane can probably outdistance a snake, why would you chose to stand your ground?


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That's messed up...pepper spray a snake, poor guy doesn't even have hands to wipe his eyes with! Have someone tie your hands then pepper spray your own snake and see how you like it.


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How about pepper spray the idiot?

don't like snakes? Go around them. Never heard of a person who got bit while avoiding a snake.


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In the time this guy could take to whip out the can of pepper spray and line up the snake to spray him, he could have bypassed the snake and been long gone away from him.


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Old 03-20-2012, 06:19 PM   #9
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Hi...


Pepper spray doesn't work? Time to break out the flute...!!


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If the snake's nose is sensitive to any smell, maybe he can react to pepper spray. I am not sure, I've never seen a snake battling against a pepper spray being directed to him. I would love to hear it from others who already experimented this pepper spray method.


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