panablog: 1, Deadly snakes: 0

Huzzah, huzzah, and onward! We're pleased to report that the human race, as represented by the panablog editorial staff, has notched a decisive victory over the deadly snakes!

We were walking on a path in the woods by the house the other day when a fer-de-lance slithered out in front of us. The battle was intense, but ultimately, we prevailed:

I chose to employ the snake-dispatching method I'd seen Manuel use on a fer-de-lance a couple of weeks earlier, which is to take a largish stick and smash the snake's head.

And before any of you hippies go calling PETA on me, consider the following:

1.) The fer-de-lance is the most common venomous snake in Panama...probably because is reproduces in litters of around a hundred. As such it is responsible for around 95 percent of venomous bites here.

2.) This particular snakes was on a path where lots of li'l barefoot kids and grandmothers walk. Did you want them to get bitten, hippies?

Futhermore, a current Peace Corps nature guy told us that the only case of snakebite in recent Peace Corps-Panama history occurred when a volunteer was trying to protect a fer-de-lance from some Panamanians who (rightly) wanted to kill it.

We can promise you this: you won't ever have to worry about panablog putting itself in harm's way to protect a deadly snake.

Anyway, the scoreboard currently stands at panablog: 1, Deadly snakes: 0. So we're winning! Although, I suppose that if the score ended at panablog: 1000, Deadly snakes: 1, I'd still feel like we lost. So let's hope for the shutout.

Comments

[Snakin]

Great job. It's always nice to work with a lead in games like this.

So is the snake small, or is that bendy straw really big? I'm hoping for the latter.

[Dr]

And I thought _my_ job was dangerous when a demented 98-year-old woman punched me in the balls last week while trying to climb out of bed. I suppose poisonous snakes trump that...

Incidentally, the Manuel method is not approved for treating dementia.

[Sarah]

I am so glad that I do not reproduce in litters of around 100. My family would be subsisting on government cheese at that point, I'll tell you what.

If you guys save the slain fer-de-lance skins, you'll have some really killer (heh) snakeskin boots by the end of your PC tenure. Do it, in the name of quality footwear!

[TBAG]

Why don't you put that in your pipe and smoke it, hippie?!

Is it reasonable to expect a continued tally on Panablog v. Snakes?