You realize that snap can snap through a broomstick?

Post #346,422 by drook 8/19/11 1:56:51 PM Reply	You realize that snap can snap through a broomstick? What they're doing is seriously stupid, or it wouldn't be so popular to watch people try it. -- Drew
Post #346,427 by crazy 8/19/11 2:03:50 PM Reply	Yes, I do So what. You lose a finger, they lose a head. Overmatches are torture.
Post #346,433 by drook 8/19/11 2:43:33 PM Reply	But do they lose a head? That didn't look like ripping a head off. Looked like the test is to get your hand entirely around the neck, which is probably the "safe" way to control a snapper. What this looks like to me is they made a contest out of something that people do anyway when harvesting snappers. You've seen people fish for catfish by reaching into the holes and letting the fish bite their hand, then close down and pull it out by the lower jaw? I can imagine when people go out into the swamps to collect snappers -- either to sell in pet stores or for food -- they probably do something like this, because any non-lethal trap that would work could probably be broken by a pissed-off snapper. And of course any time you get a bunch of rednecks together doing something dangerous and potentially stupid, someone is going to say he can do it better and faster than you. -- Drew
Post #346,434 by crazy 8/19/11 2:45:10 PM Reply	You know I can't answer without researching And you told me not to research it because you don't really care.
Post #346,435 by Another Scott 8/19/11 2:46:57 PM Reply	"Hold my beer. Watch this..."
Post #346,500 by lincoln 8/20/11 4:02:13 PM Reply	Quoting a Texan driving a pickup truck ... "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #346,437 by boxley 8/19/11 2:50:50 PM Reply	snapper hunting? Easy peasey hold out stick, snapper clamps on. Pull a little then swipe off head with sharp knife, put into collection sack for making soup later (body, not head) Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #346,438 by drook 8/19/11 2:51:27 PM Reply	What if you want them alive? I'm assuming there are people who sometimes do want them alive. -- Drew
Post #346,439 by beepster 8/19/11 3:08:20 PM Reply	Can't imagine why and I did grow up in snapper country (though never witnessed anything this stupid) And the broomstick comment..thats a normal size...big ones would take more than one finger at a time...and they aren't (contrary to turtle lore) slow about doing it. Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #346,441 by malraux 8/19/11 3:11:38 PM Reply	Tortoises are slow, turtles are fast. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #346,443 by boxley 8/19/11 3:17:17 PM Reply	dont cut off the head, they will hang on stick for long time make lousy pets tho Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #346,475 by crazy 8/20/11 6:58:04 AM Reply	I had one It lived under the bush in front of my driveway. Got it as a baby. Bit me once or twice when I was feeding it, simply because it missed the food, but other than that, nope. Note: I do NOT assign human (or even my perspective of mammalian) emotions to reptiles, I'm not pretending it even liked me. But I did not need to worry about it biting me on purpose. My daughter got a baby turtle and a 50 gallon tank a few years ago. This thing would swim around the tank, following the movements of her hand, and wanted to be handled, even when it was not hungry. It got pretty big. She gave it away. I don't recall it ever biting her. On the other hand, remember the stories of her killer hamster that would jump across the cage and sink his teeth into us every chance it got?
Post #346,480 by beepster 8/20/11 8:54:46 AM Reply	That wouldn't have been a real snapper One, you still have fingers and two, it's a water turtle. We have yertle here...a gopher tortoise that lives out back about 18 inches nose to tail Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #346,504 by crazy 8/20/11 4:14:10 PM Reply	Her's was a water turtle And I do not know what it was.And yes, I KNOW snappers are going to instinctually snap. Mine lived under a bush. I don't claim mine was a snapper. But it was a reptile, it was an omnivore, and it connected me as a harmless food source to be tolerated. I'm just pointing out that pet or not, you don't need to kill things for fun, at least I don't, and people who do like to kill things for fun are probably fucked up in the head, and not just in the apparent area. And organized events that kill things for fun that you bring your kids to take it to the next level. Grooming the next generation of serial killers is not something that I support, and raises to the level of something I'd actively oppose. Except at that point I'd be publicly opposing the actions of a group of people that probably have a decent selection of serial killers in it, so I'd most likely just keep my mouth shut.
Post #346,444 by hnick 8/19/11 3:21:04 PM Reply	When I was a kid there was a technique We caught them by sneaking up on them in the water and grabbing them more than half way back on their shell. It wasn't easy. Their head can come back around about half their body width and they have powerful jaws. I never got a big one. Some of the adults got a big one and I saw it cooked alive. I quit catching them. They don't make good pets and my sense of humor never ran that way.

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