Was cleaning out a box of stuff this afternoon and came across this. I had totally forgotten about it. when my hubby went to work for this company several years ago, this picture was on the wall in the driver's room along with warning to always check under your rig before standing next to it. this 125 pound rattlesnake had been killed in the field right near the pavement where the tractors (semi rig cabs) are parked a year or so before hubby went to work there. Hubby made a run off copy of a run off copy so iit is not the best or clearest, but you can certainly tell it is a diamond backrattlesnake. If I remember corrrectly, they actually used one of the tractors to run over it to kill it as it lay there sunning itself.
Another one almost that big wa killed a couple of miles down the road from or houe. it wa n r bak o the oad nd ue toteBoots, Scooter and Buck there to play in the water and run. Then they closed it off because they were building a navy degauzing facility there on the water. Was the crew buildin the facility that killed that rattlesnke.
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If the rattlesnake that hit my Buck in the face in our back yard and been half this big, he wooud have never made it into the house. This thing gives me the heebie-jeebies. Always been scard of snakes.