Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/08/doorbell-cam-video-of-snake-at.html
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Venomous. Unless it’s a ‘man bites snake’ scenario.
Anyway, he was lucky the snake didn’t get his eye there.
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"Copeland “hopes to keep away any (other) potential lurkers by spraying the yard with sulfuric acid.”
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I assume he means spraying with a highly diluted solution of sulfuric acid. Land development tends to increase the alkalinity of soil, so a lot of people use a sulfuric acid solution to correct it. If you’ve ever heard the term salting the earth, it literally means to stop vegetation from growing by making the pH balance less acidic and more alkaline.
I don’t know a lot about snakes, but I don’t see why this would inconvenience them. It’s basically restoring the soil’s natural pH balance, and as far as I know snakes didn’t evolve in the suburbs. If he’s thinking about not diluting it much, he better say his goodbyes to his lawn.
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And flames. Setting the whole property aflame is good. Snakes really don’t like that, I’ve heard.
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What if it writes a scathing criticism of your off-off-off-boardway, one-person, autobiographical tone poem? Is that venomous or poisonous?
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accurate? 
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Vitriolic. (Do not excessively criticize your lawn.)
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holy shit – it looks like it bit him right in the EYE.
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thanks, fixed!
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Yikes, indeed; though less traumatic than a run in with a Flerken, I guess?
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That’s really uncharacteristic behavior for a non-venomous snake. I couldn’t tell from the video, does anyone know what type it was?
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If’n it was a snake it woulda bit me…oh, wait.
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