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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 09:07 AM
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Snakes in the House! MF Snakes in the MF House!11!!1
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/weird/Family-Driven-From-Home-by-Hundreds-of-Snakes-123908874.html


An Idaho family was driven from their home and into bankruptcy by
"hundreds and hundreds" of snakes that slithered inside the walls
as they slept and left them and their children terrified.

The garter snakes were so prevalent that the ground around their
home appeared to move, according to Ben and Amber Sessions. Ben Sessions
killed 42 of the serpents in one day, but eventually gave up and
abandoned the home they had bought in 2009.

"It was like living in one of those horror movies,"
Sessions, 31, told The Associated Press.

They bought the house aware of the snake situation, but they thought
it was overblown. Yet everyone in and around the small town of Rexburg
seemed to know about the "snake house."

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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 09:50 AM
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1. woah
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 10:07 AM
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2. snakes... why did it have to be snakes?
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 10:54 AM
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3. I'd rather have ghosts than snakes- n/t
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DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 11:24 AM
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4. I don't understand why the snakes can't be removed somehow.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 12:06 PM
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5. Apparently, the house was built on a winter den
Edited on Wed Jun-15-11 12:19 PM by Ptah


"The home was most likely built on a winter snake sanctuary, likely a snake den or hibernaculum, where snakes gather in large numbers to hibernate for the winter, said Rob Cavallaro, a wildlife biologist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 01:32 PM
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7. Yeah, but you open the door
kick them out, and patch the hole.

Seriously, killing them is not the answer. :(
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 01:56 PM
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9. I think the answer is to demolish the structure
Edited on Wed Jun-15-11 01:58 PM by Ptah
and leave the snakes alone.


Humans in the Den!!!

MF Humans in the MF Den!!1!1!1111

:hi:

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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 12:47 PM
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6. OK, they are just garter snakes but...
Ewwww.

I've dealt with a few at a time but damn.

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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 01:44 PM
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8. Mandatory statement of disapproval by Samuel L. Jackson.
It's in my contract.
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Raffi Ella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 03:22 PM
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10. fffuCK.
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StevesRedLens Donating Member (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 03:41 PM
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11. You Can't Make Stories Like That Up....
Well you can, but true life is stranger than fiction sometimes...

I saw something similar on Animal Planet a while back.
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Paper Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 04:26 PM
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12. Shivers. I could not live through this.
Heart attack. My greatest fear is of snakes.
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one_voice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-11 06:49 PM
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13. I saw this on some show...
about houses with horrible problems. From snakes to roaches to ants, bees etc. I don't know how people sold some of the places with a clear conscience.
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