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old lady cooks snak in dishwasher
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by tigers9 on January 10, 2009
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Great excuse/REASON for wives of male herpetologists’ to not go to the kitchen anymore and make their husbands cook and clean dishes;-)
But then again, I have no clue how to cook as it is.
Z
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Buenzow said a sheriff’s deputy arrived quickly with a pair of thick gloves and a baton, but told her that he didn’t know what to do and that he didn’t want to get bitten by the poisonous reptile.
“He just left after that so I really didn’t get a lot of help there,” she said.
That’s when Buenzow decided to take matters into her own hands.
She said she wasn’t going to remove the snake so she ran the dishwasher through a full cycle on high heat, cooking it.
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http://www.brenhambanner.com/articles/2009/01/10/news/news05.txt
Goodness snake’s alive!-- Woman finds copperhead inside dishwasher
By KEVIN HIGHTOWER/Staff Reporter
Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:43 AM CST
Washington County resident Maryanne Buenzow has seen a lot of wild animal in the time that she’s lived in Bluebonnet Hills.
Last year, the space under the deck of her house doubled as a home for a family of foxes.
She’s seen water moccasins in trees and even what she says was a black cougar pass through her yard two years ago.
But none of those terrified the 76-year-old Buenzow to the extent of what she found in her dishwasher recently.
Just like any other day, Buenzow was cleaning her kitchen when she went to load the dishwasher.
But not like any other day. Buenzow was greeted by a 21/2 foot-long copperhead snake.
“I was hysterical so I called 911 and they told me to calm down and that they’d send someone out,” she said. “I was really scared.”
Buenzow said a sheriff’s deputy arrived quickly with a pair of thick gloves and a baton, but told her that he didn’t know what to do and that he didn’t want to get bitten by the poisonous reptile.
“He just left after that so I really didn’t get a lot of help there,” she said.
That’s when Buenzow decided to take matters into her own hands.
She said she wasn’t going to remove the snake so she ran the dishwasher through a full cycle on high heat, cooking it.
Her son Chris Buenzow arrived the next day, confirmed it was a copperhead and threw the dead snake into the yard.
It was unclear how the snake found its way into the dishwasher. Buenzow said a representative at a local appliance store told her there was no way the snake could have gotten in through the plumbing.
“It must have come in through the house, which really scares me,” she said. “I’m going to be very careful not to leave any doors open from now on.”
For those keeping score that’s Buenzow 1, copperhead 0.
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by Cro on January 10, 2009
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It really is amazing how often snakes, toads, lizards, and frogs come "walking" into houses when folks leave the doors open.
I once had a toad that lived next to my back porch, and almost every evening, when I opened that back door during the summer, that rascal would hop inside. I think he was attracted to the moths that also came inside to the lights.
Running the Copperhead through a high heat dishwashing cycle would surely kill it, but it bet it was squeaky-clean after the adventure, LOL !
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John Z
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by tigers9 on January 10, 2009
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When I first moved to NV in 2000,I didn’t realize how many scorpions are here in the country. Sometimes we get the nasties bark scorpions.
One morning I was drinking my coffee and I looked at the spot by the fireplace when I was sitting/reading PJ O’Rourke the nite before, and then it was, scorpion, FLAT and DRY and VERY DEAD, killed by my butt the night before. I was unknowingly sitting on it, hey better him/it than me, it was NOT invited to come into the house. Wouldn’t have been a pleasant place to get bitten ….
Z
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by LarryDFishel on January 11, 2009
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"She’s seen water moccasins in trees and even what she says was a black cougar pass through her yard two years ago."
Neither of these "facts" fill me with confidence in her identification. That her son agreed doesn't do much for me either.
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by Cro on January 11, 2009
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Good point Larry. My first thought was ratsnake, LOL.
That town in Texas is in the range of cottonmouths, however, them hanging from trees reminds me of the line in the old Jim Stafford song, Swamp Witch Hattie..........
"Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees like sausage on a smokehouse wall"
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John Z
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by tigers9 on January 11, 2009
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yeah, that 'black cougar' in the yard is very suspicious, fat black doemstic kitty cat?
Z
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by pictigaster1 on January 11, 2009
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Jagurundi live in south texas.One was killed in garza county in 82 and a ocilot was killed in nolin county in 80 way way out of there ranges.
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