Hey all, I'm happy to announce that I put a 2nd video up, telling the "Stupid Moose" story. I think you guys will like it! Check it out below, and let me know what you think. And don't worry, I'm still writing. The NEXT update on the site will be a blog post in a written format, instead of a vlog. Still more coming, and thanks so much for reading and viewing, it's a lot of fun for me. Thumbs up or leave comments on the video so I know what you're looking for, and keep collecting your own funny stories!
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I got the first comment on your video.
ReplyDeleteI noticed! Thanks pal. :D
DeleteI really enjoyed this story. Here's one from my early summer:
ReplyDeleteThis takes place in Australia, where I did my study abroad. If you're not aware, Australia is known as the 'land where everything will kill you, from the snails to the trees and everything between.' As part of the study abroad, we visited a 'gentleman' (pest exterminator) who breeds and keeps Australia's deadliest snakes as his pets, notably the Inland and Coastal Taipans, the Death Adder, King Browns, and a few non-venomous ones like the Green Tree Snake and the Carpet Python
Fast forward a few weeks to a backpacking trip after the course ended, and there's a large, six foot plus snake coiled in a sunny spot in the middle of a path lined with dense underbrush. We're sure it's a Carpet Python, and we're fairly confident that it's non-venomous. Not 100% mind you, but pretty darn sure. So we did what any good biology students/hikers would do and found a long stick and got ready to run like hell. I set up my camera and started rolling, and we began poking the snake to get it to move off the trail because the underbrush was dense, thorny, and could have sheltered other venomous creatures...
The poking went on for nearly two minutes, and it wasn't gentle either. We weren't thwacking it or trying to harm it; we were trying to make it uncomfortable enough to move out of its fantastically warm sunlight. After the two minutes, it finally woke up and nonchalantly, slowly moved off the path in the laziest fashion you could imagine for a snake. It was as though it was saying "Yup, you're bigger than me, but I just woke up from a nap and I'm confident that I could still kick your ass".
We looked up whether or not it was venomous later, and were very happy to find out that it wasn't venomous.
I realize now I never responded to this when you first posted! WHOOPS!
DeleteI'm glad you guys were safe...after all, Australia really is the land of death by native wildlife. It would be beautiful if it weren't so terrifying.
As for snakes...you're a smart guy, and you probably know most the tricks to identify dangerous snakes. Color, head shape, size, reactions, tail length etc etc.
I can totally relate. The sheer number of times I had to deal with people at the nature park I worked at in Indiana that thought they'd come across a damnably dangerous snake (when it was really just a rat snake 99% of the time) was at once comical and tragic. Most of the time, you're safe, but using the stick was probably wise...though again, in Australia, it's better to assume even the squirrels are secretly deadly poisonous demons.
As for looking it up later? Well, I can tell you right now that you probably should NEVER look those up. After all, if it WAS poisonous, then this story would be less funny, and more 'WE ALMOST DIED!'.
Great tale, thanks Rory.