Crazy video of me being a daredevil

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OK so my brother and I are driving along the other day and see a snake in the road. Turns out the snake is a rather venomous species commonly known as a cottonmouth. So being in a thrill-seeking mood, we decided to catch it and move it away from the road. So here's the vid...


We've dealt with venomous species before, but never an adult cottonmouth. Fun stuff if you're not faint of heart.

Nice. I don't quite understand the technique. How do you get the snake to not sense you approaching? Why doesn't it scurry away when you get close? Did the stick somehow pacify it? Not that I would try it at home.

Nice my voice is alot like yours.

The snake was in a defensive posture rather than trying to scurry away. So it was fairly easy to pin its head to the ground with the stick. With its head pinned all I had to do was grasp the head and the venom threat was no more. When we put it into the container, we timed the release to where he closed the cage lid immediately when I let go of the head.

Very nice video. You remind me very much of my son. He would really enjoy your video. He always had a thing for snakes. I have three nice snake stories if you have the time.

1. My son (S) at age 8, finds a garter snake, fixes up a nice home for it in an aquarium, and keeps it in his bedroom. One morning shortly thereafter, I wake up, grope around the cold floor for my furry slippers with my feet, slide my foot into one and let out a blood curdling scream. My slipper is full of baby garter snakes. They were born in the middle of the night, crawled out of the aquarium and through a hole (hot water basebord pipe) in the wall that separated my BR from S's BR.

2. S is 9 yrs old. We're camping in upstate PA - Rickett's Glen. We're on a trail next to a lake. S is on his knees at side of lake, holding a small snake above the water. Park Ranger comes by and says "Son, do you know what that is you are holding?" S say's, "Yes, Sir, I do, it's a Water Moccasin." Ranger says "And what are you going to do with it?" S says "Throw it back in, Sir." Which he promptly does.

3. S is 10 yrs old. Two of his little friends tell me "We saw S's sneaks down by the creek in the cemetery." I say "His sneaks? You saw his sneaks?" I go into a near panic, thinking OMG, all that's left of my son is his sneaks (slang for sneakers), thinking he has drowned in the creek. I head towards the creek and see S walking towards me with a large burlap sack. He opens the sack and out comes two large boa constrictors. He wants to keep them. He is such a jungle boy, animals and wildlife mean so much to him. I used to call him Sabu. I guess I should explain, his friends had a strange way of pronouncing "snakes" which sounded like "sneaks". We had many adventures, or should I say the Boas had many adventures in our house for several months afterwards. S finally decided to give them to our local Wildlife Reserve and I'm not sure what happened to them after that.

heh, ive seen plenty of snakes around here, thank God none are poisonous, i wont mess with any of them, ive seen a few COPS episodes, guess they train law enforcement how to deal with snake calls, they use their batons and lift the snake off the ground and carry it, it seems harmless at this point. You then grab it by the tail and as long as u hold it away from ya far enough it wont hurt ya, thats how they move them outa ppls houses.

Funny you should mention that -- 2 months ago I would have sworn I'd never mess with a venomous snake. Then came the Buffalo River trip in July where I walked up on my brother who had cornered a cottonmouth and he convinced me to help him wrangle it (I think he knew deep down I'd actually have the balls to grab the thing if it was pinned). Of course I wouldn't turn down the chance to be the hero so I actually wound up pinning it and grabbing it myself. And so began my experience handling "hots." That was caught on film too -- it was at the beginning of my Buffalo River video that I posted about a month ago. (I need to go back and splice that video together like I did this one, now that I know how.)

Then this little venture. I guess I shouldn't do it too often -- the new will wear off. Only trouble is, we never got around to setting it free so now I have a captive cottonmouth in my apartment...

I couldn't tell that the head was pinned down. I thought you just reached down and grabbed it .

Ahhh man, now u have a pet!