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[HerpCrazy!!!]

Seeing as we did the first bites thing I thought I'd see what other funny/odd/embarassing stories you all have

I'll start with just one of a few cringers!

Working at a local zoo, I had the responsibility of showing an 8ft common boa to a birthday group (all kids aged around 6 or 7). It was a nuclear hot day and although the snake was a big softie, the warmth gave the boa a bit of a kick! While explaining about the habitat and lifestyle of the boa in the wild, the bugger decided it would go up my shirt around my back and emerge from the sleeve of my left arm! Long story short, my shirt had to be cut off me with a pair of scissors so the snake could be put back. So there I was standing half naked in front of a group of laughing kids and their mothers all taking photos, some of which found their way into the local paper. lol. From then on I always tucked my shirt in!

NEXT........................
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Licking this cane toad was the worst flippin idea you.............whoa man that penguin just put something in your pocket.

[lol93]

Can't top that, I'm afraid!
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[davo]

made my day

[Stuart]

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[HerpCrazy!!!]

Ok then..... Nobody else
I'll go again

Same zoo......
Was helping to move a 6st burm into a new enclosure and was told to take the tail end, no problem....... as we lifted the snake it got a bit hissy and struggled a bit so I shoved the snake under my arm and we made our way to the new home for it. Halfway there the snake decides its had enough and empties what seemed to be its whole digestive tract down my right hand side. Nice! The stuff was absolutely reeking! Anyway, after a bit of a chuckle we got the snake to its new home and just as I was about to post the tail end in another barrage of snake crap squirts out over my neck and down the front of my shirt! Am I unlucky or what? Lol
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Licking this cane toad was the worst flippin idea you.............whoa man that penguin just put something in your pocket.

[Geordiegirl]

Hehe. I think I'd consider a new line of work...
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[Drymarchon32]

I'm very bored so I thought I'd add some of my own mix of the silly to the sublime.

Starting from when I was very young (about 10) I had caught a very angry little garter snake in the back garden, only about 30cm long but really really upset at being bothered that early in the morning. It was 6am and I was off to the pond to catch frogs and snapping turtles. This thing attached itself to my hand and just started chewing.
Oh well, no biggie, so I took him up to the house and put him in a temporary viv to calm down. He didn't at all and the easiest way to take him out was just to let him latch onto my hand and take him out like that. I had just done this and he was having his usual chew, which produced an unbelievable amount of blood, when the doorbell rang. I answered the door with the hand that wasn't being chewed. It was two kids from down the street who had brought their friend along to see my snakes, as she had never seen one before. I said "Cool! Here's one i caught today" and put my hand out to show her the snake that was still trying to kill me by exsanguination.
She just threw up on the spot.
Funniest thing was I just shrugged my shoulders and shut the door.

Others

I cleared a car out in under 5 seconds, when I mentioned that "the snake had got out the bag and was loose in the car"

I cleared a bar out in Malaysia by walking into the place with a small snake I had just caught in the toilets. It was a mainly locals bar and I didn't know they would freak out that much. The only people left was me and the barman. A definite tumbleweed moment.

I've been cr**ped on by Igs at work and almost got my thumb removed by a female Rock Ig while the public were watching.

I've got a few more but I think that's enough for today

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Complacency killed the keeper

[HerpCrazy!!!]

Excellent!
I got another one then......
A couple of years ago one of my hatchling Kenyan sand boas disappeared from its box. After a couple of weeks of trying to track it down or trap it, I gave up and started to believe that the lil fella was gone for good.

However.......

At least 2 whole months later, I came home from work, grabbed some clothes of the floor, got changed and then went to clean out a neighbour's aquarium. The cleaning took about an hour and after I was done I left for the pub. Got there, ordered a drink, went to get some money out of my ass pocket and thought 'what the hell is that!' my mates looked at me as I said ' there's a bloody snake in my pocket!' and I got the usual 'oh yeah, ha ha funny one' and trouser snake jokes. They all looked very afraid as I pulled said Houdini like snake from my pocket..... alive!
So I left the pub and took the lil guy home!
I still have him but he hasn't caught up in size with his siblings but he seems to be perfectly healthy still.
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Licking this cane toad was the worst flippin idea you.............whoa man that penguin just put something in your pocket.

[minno]

iv got the story on the bite forum about me finding the woman from 4 doors down snake on my bedroom window sill while coming up with my breakfast and it made me jump more than iv eva done before

[christophermchale]

i had a huge blue tail monitor take an enormous steamy crap all over me a mere seconds after me saying "it seems to be rally calm" once.
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cardboard city.