You're walking down the street and see this in the grass next to you. What do YOU (other than run) do next?—
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Jstnona
Apr 6 '15
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Moderator billyHill
Apr 6 '15
get a camera out and start filming !!!!! ( you all ready took away my first answer of running).
i will faint......
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Jstnona
Apr 7 '15
In my experience, a snake will not bother you, if you do not bother him. I would quietly go to the other side of the road and quietly continue on my way.
Moderator spectrumAU
Apr 7 '15
That may work for some snakes but there is a brown snake here in Australia that has been known to attack. It will chase you... and they're fast.
Jstnona
Apr 17 '15
That may work for some snakes but there is a brown snake here in Australia that has been known to attack. It will chase you... and they're fast.Now they are a scary snake, Louise. Hope they never come to the states.... Australian Brown Snake Attacks Camera Lens
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Jstnona
Apr 17 '15
Snakes! I hate snakes!A Cobra....oh my, Abby. How frightening.I had the experience of coming face to face with a cobra in my first job. Yep, the cobra was all upright and looking right at me, swaying left and right...I just froze and stood really still.
Good thing, it heard footsteps coming behind it and quickly slither away without striking.
Never again, did I look at snake the same way...
Moderator spectrumAU
Apr 17 '15
Don't think so Nona. I'm sure your Customs and Quarantine wouldn't allow them over the border.
Not that they're likely to stop and ask for a visa. 
Jstnona
Apr 17 '15
We have ended up with snakes and other invasive creatures coming through
in bananas and other produce. In fact I just read about a horrible Asian
misquito that came in discarded tires from someplace in Asia. Causes
all sorts of tropical diseases.
Moderator spectrumAU
Apr 17 '15
Yes, that's how we get our pests too. That's why Customs are so strict about any goods particularly foods coming in to the country.
Willi
Jan 17 '18
It would be nice, if the picture was actually visible to me, but by reading the responses, it transpired, that it was just a snake in the grass. As a child I once was face-to-face (literally) with an adder, a mildly venomous species. I guess, the snake was more surprised and scared than I was and disappeared within a few seconds. A few years ago I encountered a Philippine cobra, which again preferred to hide. I n the house it had made its way into. After a lengthy chase the snake was caught and sadly killed by the animal squad, who had been called.
I neither case I had a camera on me, which I regret very much ! Although careful I am not scared of snakes.
Willi
Jan 21 '18
Although I have no picture of it, there is a rather funny sculpture (actually a life-sized sheet metal silhouette) of a dog with a raised hind leg next to a traffic sign post in DesMoines, Iowa. It looks quite convincing from the opposite side of the street and is part of a city-wide arts project.
