Snake attack today!

[Mesterh]

 

Close call indeed!

 

I assume you amended the RA after that near miss?

[janey]

Smart lil' adder disguising itself as a harmless grass snake like that . When no one is looking, it can leap out of disguise and do it's worst!!!

[dadio]

Monty Python has nothing on you!

(its a snake thing)

[Rob D]

Brave guy - that's what I was told to do as well - keep absolutely stock still and the snake won't bite you or see you as a threat.... easier said than done

[Dean Lofthouse]

I think it's fake

 

If you look really carefully, that varigated ivy leaf in the background looks plastic

[Ian Flatters]

lol, made me laugh but sadly its only a baby grass snake. Unless that adder was in disguise to try and attack the cutter?

on the table is a baby adder

in hand a baby grass snake

Edited October 15, 2010 by Ian Flatters

[slack ma girdle]

We had for a couple of years a couple of grass snakes living in the compost heap, every time we went to put stuff on the heap one or both would hiss loudly. Made me jump out of my skin the first time it happened.

[Mick Stockbridge]

I think it's fake

 

If you look really carefully, that varigated ivy leaf in the background looks plastic

 

I think you're right.....the tomatoe looks real though.

[Dave D]

that was a close one mark, glad your cutter was alright. i trust this eventuality was already discussed in your original risk assesment, given that your cutter new to stand and make a noise like a tomato to blend in and avert a potentially devastating encounter.

[Big J]

Hehe!

 

Unfortunately I have the distinction of being the kind of cretin that as a child picked up an adder with the expected consequences.

 

About the age of 10, wandering through the Epsom Downs with my Dad and brother, saw a snake dart across the path and almost on reflex jumped to catch it (always loved snakes but my mum wouldn't ever let me have one). Only a tiny thing, perhaps a foot long. It bit my right forefinger - stung like a bee sting.

 

I was fine until I was told very shortly after it was an adder, at which point I panicked! Quick dash to Epsom hospital, by which point the throbbing had stopped and I felt OK. I remember being in some examination room with about a half dozen doctors and nurses frantically buzzing around, much to my bemusement. Hadn't had any numpties get bitten for several years you see. It was all quite amusing until I started projectile vomiting and passed out.

 

Woke up on the ward a few hours later with a drip the size of a hosepipe in my arm, feeling bloody rotten. Discharged the next day (gave my mum a call at breakfast to tell her I'd been bitten by an adder - my dad forgot to tell her - mother not amused) with a hand that was many interesting and peculiar shades of blue, red, yellow and green. Being my right hand, I was unable to undertake any school work for around 6 weeks - excellent!!

 

I've since seen many adders here in Scotland, but keep a respectful distance now!