Snake on board

"C. Massey" wrote:



In my eyes, ALL snakes are venomous!!!

A little education would cure that. Many snakes are beneficial to humans;
it's a mistake to kill them indiscriminately.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Good interview with the pilot on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5448666

"FLAV8R" wrote

I had an incident with a couple of wasps in my car that was probably more
dangerous than
a snake in a plane.
Almost totaled my car trying to keep them away from my face.

Yeah, as a carpenter, it is sometimes hard to remember that trying to
"run-away" from insects, of the stinging variety, will be much more painful
than moving away at a slow pace....

while you are on a scaffold board 25 feet in the air, working on an old
house. bfg
--
Jim in NC

"Wiz" wrote in message
ps.com...
I believe the article was not saying it was a snake that was black in
color, but that it was a "black snake," also known as a "rat snake."

It's true that many people refer to the black rat snake as a "black snake",
but the article is not clear on this, and there are other black snakes
referred to as a "black snake".

If the article had said it was a "black rat snake" then we'd know for sure
what kind of snake it was. But they didn't, so we don't.

"Morgans" wrote in message
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A "black snake" is a real type of snake, not just "a snake that is black."

No, it's not. There is no single snake that is uniquely known as a "black
snake".

Just because people in different regions use a generic term to describe a
common snake in their area, that doesn't make it a correct taxonomic
description.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"C. Massey" wrote:



In my eyes, ALL snakes are venomous!!!

A little education would cure that. Many snakes are beneficial to humans;
it's a mistake to kill them indiscriminately.



All of the education in the world won't change my mind!

And where did I say anything about killing snakes? Personally, I won't get
close enough to a snake to kill it!




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"C. Massey" wrote:


In my eyes, ALL snakes are venomous!!!

A little education would cure that. Many snakes are beneficial to
humans; it's a mistake to kill them indiscriminately.



All of the education in the world won't change my mind!

I hear ya'. I feel the same way about spiders.

And where did I say anything about killing snakes? Personally, I won't get
close enough to a snake to kill it!

OK. Just leave 'em alone and they'll do the same for you.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

A snake can keep the mice and rats out of the airplane.
Rats and mice eat insulation from wires. You might want to
add a snake to your cat, dog, duck IFR kit.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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C. Massey wrote:
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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I do not usually like to copy and paste, but this I could not resist.
Makes me wonder how I would react. I am not a fan of snakes.

Hard to say exactly what kind of snake was involved, but I'm not aware of
any venomous snakes in the US that are all black. A venomous snake would
certainly worry me a bit, but a non-venomous one (such as was most likely
involved in this story) is unlikely to cause any sort of trouble at all,
unless the pilot specifically attacks it (such as in the posted story).
The worst it is likely to do is bite, which would be painful but not
otherwise threatening to the flight.



In my eyes, ALL snakes are venomous!!!


Isn't that rather like saying "In my eyes, all privately owned
aircraft are a threat to National Security?"

It is one thing to be stupid, it is another to be so proud
of being stupid as to announce it to the world.

--

FF

C. Massey wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"C. Massey" wrote:



In my eyes, ALL snakes are venomous!!!

A little education would cure that. Many snakes are beneficial to humans;
it's a mistake to kill them indiscriminately.



All of the education in the world won't change my mind!

Which pretty well illustrates the difference between ignorance
and stupidity, or a phobic delusion.


And where did I say anything about killing snakes? Personally, I won't get
close enough to a snake to kill it!

I, and our little wriggly friends, the snakes, are quite happy to hear
that.

--

FF

(Now for an animal that is inherently evil, consider the
minature poodle.)