TXGunNut
10-19-2014, 12:50 AM
of the reptilian variety. Was doing a downsizing garage sale for my mom today, brought a box in from the garage marked "punch bowl" to have my sister-in-law unpack it for display. I've never seen her so excited about a silly punch bowl set and then she finally screamed something about a snake. :mrgreen: I turned the box over and sure enough, there was a 2ft +/- copperhead on the other side of the box. :coffee: Somehow it had gotten between the box and some very sticky (thank goodness!) shipping tape so it was pretty well secured but was pretty uspset about its situation. It didn't have the normal definition I generally expect on a copperhead but there was no mistaking the pit viper head. The second clue was the unmistakeable scent of a ticked-off copperhead. It presented no danger to me in it's current predicament so I detoured out to the front porch and my Cold Steel Voyager came into play, a bit more quickly than normal but with it's usual cool efficiency. Was a little awkward, a couple of carloads of garage sale shoppers were walking up at that moment so it was quickly removed from the tape and buried under the mulch under the shrubbery.
Garage sales are always good entertainment, never know what you're going to find. :mrgreen:
Garage sales are always good entertainment, never know what you're going to find. :mrgreen: