Another Scary Snake Tale

Here we go again................another snake tale from Australia
A four year old boy was grabbed by a large scrub python and luckily his dad heard his son screaming and saw the snake dragging his son under a bush. He raced over to his son and after punching the snake in the head, he then forced open its jaws to release his son.........a very lucky escape for the boy.

Here is a link to the story https://7news.com.au/news/qld/queen...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Shows that you must keep an eye on small children at all times

 

Or.........not live near the outback where snakes run rampant.
Why I live in a high-rise. Those critters will play hell getting up to my 7th floor home.
There WAS a report of a bobcat on the far side of the creek next to our building recently though.
Am keeping my weapons loaded just in case.

 

Hehehe......yep the 7th floor sounds like a good barrier to stop invading critters Hmmmmm.......7th floor you say........perfect for taking pot shots at the bobcat and even better if you have a balcony lol

Over here you don't need to go to "the outback" to find spiders and snakes or even critters.......they live in the suburbs and even in the major cities as Aussie towns have lots of parkland. After a few hot days snakes often go looking for water in nearby homes and if it is cold they look for a warm place to curl up (often in your laundry or bathroom)
I used to live in Rowville (a south eastern suburb of Melbourne) and it is fairly dense housing on quarter acre blocks with regular bitumen streets and concrete sidewalks but even there we still had possums, echidnas, goannas, blue tongue lizards, hares, rabbits, foxes and sometimes wallabies roaming the streets at night and in the trees we had bats, sugargliders and ring tailed possums and for birds to name a few common ones we had owls, sulfur crested cockatoos, lorikeets, rosellas, honey eaters, kookaburras, magpies, starlings, sparrows, mynahs, finches, galahs, swallows, red breasted robins, blue wrens, cockatiels and if like our place you were near a park with a lake then there were ducks, swans, water fowl and ibis...........and of course, because it is Australia there are spiders and snakes and biting insects everywhere

 

My balcony faces a busy street but I can see the creek from the side a bit. Can't really fire weapons inside city limits here unless some baddies invade your home to rob, steal, kill, etc.

 

Hmmm...........maybe a slingshot......this guy makes some of the most powerful slingshots in the world and here he demonstrates a repeating slingshot


and here is a link to him testing marbles for ammo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdq1Z5cSvA
His slingshot channel goes back many years and he has tried all manner of human powered weapons.