Quote Originally Posted by Kman View Post
Smart? Really? To let a snake live in your boat...so lets explore this rationale.

Snakes eat...you gonna feed him? What? Rats? That should smell great! Just what I want in my boat, snakes, rats, and snake poo. What if you have people that get in this boat (like the guy that OWNS it) who doesn't like snakes? Not a far stretch, most smart people I know don't. What if his wife gets in and it crawls across her foot. You think shes gonna take the time to look up the snake on her ipad to see if it will hurt her? No, because shes SMARTER than that! Doing that could get her bitten and sick or dead.

You know.... you never see the guy that's "scared of snakes" getting bit on TV....its always the DUMBA@# trying to teach me something about one that gets bit in the face.
Most of what you're arguing falls in the category of a false dilemma (feeding snakes rats in a boat) or a red herring (carrying an ipad to identify a snake). I'll say this one more time- I would far rather be able to identify the three or four snakes that can cause harm than live my life in fear. Especially since I identify myself as an outdoorsman. If I couldn't handle living in a world that may have snakes in it I just wouldn't leave the house. Man, there are only four venomous species in the USA. They're not hard to point out. I have a harder time identifying white and black crappie sometimes!