http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182 I wonder if I'm stepping into the hornet's nest by starting up an ABC 23 blog over here... Can't be too bad. I have Jason Sperber to protect me, right?? He's the digital media ninja for Bakersfield.com. Gulp. Anyway, I'm adding youtube video of ABC 23's interview with the snake eater... And thanks to&nbsp;Bakersfield.com for allowing us to use their video! &nbsp; &nbsp; I wonder if I'm stepping into the hornet's nest by starting up an ABC 23 blog over here... Can't be too bad. I have Jason Sperber to protect me, right?? He's the digital media ninja for Bakersfield.com. Gulp. Anyway, I'm adding youtube video of ABC 23's interview with the snake eater... And thanks to&nbsp;Bakersfield.com for allowing us to use their video! &nbsp; &nbsp; en-us Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:44:54 PDT <font size="2">*hangs head in shame*I have been watching the 23 news as my penance:it's not so bad.....lol</font> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118407 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118407 <font size="2">*hangs head in shame*I have been watching the 23 news as my penance:it's not so bad.....lol</font> <p>&quot;Digital Media Ninja.&quot;&nbsp; Heh.&nbsp; Can I have that on my business cards?</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118413 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118413 <p>&quot;Digital Media Ninja.&quot;&nbsp; Heh.&nbsp; Can I have that on my business cards?</p> <p>That's a great penance... You could have been made to read my personal blog, which I hear can be torture. :)</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118416 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118416 <p>That's a great penance... You could have been made to read my personal blog, which I hear can be torture. :)</p> Jason, you should get hats and T-shirts made too. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118418 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118418 Jason, you should get hats and T-shirts made too. No hanging head, I actually like TV23 though I do a lot of switching to all three channels. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118432 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118432 No hanging head, I actually like TV23 though I do a lot of switching to all three channels. <font size="2">I think almost everyone&nbsp;I have ever known from Tehachapi has a healthy &quot;kill it&quot; regard about rattlers.I'll never forget one spring sunbathing in the canyon.Settled in ,quietly enjoying the rays,realizing we were surrounded,my Tehachapi friend stifling her screams and carefully backing away from a mess of rattlers,babies,mid lifers and one old grandpa or ma?.that was about as thick as my upper arm and long....must have been 30 snakes if there was one.Thankfully it was spring,they were slow and I was young and quick.</font> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118434 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118434 <font size="2">I think almost everyone&nbsp;I have ever known from Tehachapi has a healthy &quot;kill it&quot; regard about rattlers.I'll never forget one spring sunbathing in the canyon.Settled in ,quietly enjoying the rays,realizing we were surrounded,my Tehachapi friend stifling her screams and carefully backing away from a mess of rattlers,babies,mid lifers and one old grandpa or ma?.that was about as thick as my upper arm and long....must have been 30 snakes if there was one.Thankfully it was spring,they were slow and I was young and quick.</font> Glad you were so quick Sagefever. Those folks in Tehachapi are no dummies and though I love critters I'm of the old school the only good rattler is a dead rattler. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118444 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118444 Glad you were so quick Sagefever. Those folks in Tehachapi are no dummies and though I love critters I'm of the old school the only good rattler is a dead rattler. That's terrifying!&nbsp; I rode over one with my mountain bike once... <em>thump-thump</em>! http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118474 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118474 That's terrifying!&nbsp; I rode over one with my mountain bike once... <em>thump-thump</em>! OMG Sage, I don't think I'll ever go to Techachapi again.....(((((shake, shiver)))))))<shaking and="" shivering=""><br /> I guess if I had to, I could kill a rattlesnake if it was a threat. But I don't think I could eat ANYTHING while it was still alive.&nbsp; To me, THAT is really the debatable point here.</shaking> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118503 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118503 OMG Sage, I don't think I'll ever go to Techachapi again.....(((((shake, shiver)))))))<shaking and="" shivering=""><br /> I guess if I had to, I could kill a rattlesnake if it was a threat. But I don't think I could eat ANYTHING while it was still alive.&nbsp; To me, THAT is really the debatable point here.</shaking> Yeah, was the snake alive or not? http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118504 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118504 Yeah, was the snake alive or not? <font size="2">He says he killed it,we have all heard the stories about grandma snaping the chickens head off and the body running around~so the tape says that accounts for the &quot;movement&quot;.I am just still too much a farmers daughter~vermin can and should be killed.Not killed&nbsp;willey nilly~but this is &quot;survivor&quot; and it just a tv show(unlike the excellent local news :-) ).Snakes really don't want to mess with you anymore than you want to mess with them.</font> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118649 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118649 <font size="2">He says he killed it,we have all heard the stories about grandma snaping the chickens head off and the body running around~so the tape says that accounts for the &quot;movement&quot;.I am just still too much a farmers daughter~vermin can and should be killed.Not killed&nbsp;willey nilly~but this is &quot;survivor&quot; and it just a tv show(unlike the excellent local news :-) ).Snakes really don't want to mess with you anymore than you want to mess with them.</font> I agree. The rattler didn't seem too bothered that I ran over it. By the way, I swore it was a stick. http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118728 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118728 I agree. The rattler didn't seem too bothered that I ran over it. By the way, I swore it was a stick. <p>Having lived in Tehachapi for 15 years I can say that the only rattlers I ever saw were nowhere near town.  My ex killed one at the ranch because it was near where my grandson was playing.  Because the terrtory around Tehachapi is rocky, it's more likely you'll see them out in the boonies.  Living at the ranch for 5 years, I pretty much only saw gopher snakes which are almost as deadly as a rattler to me.  Heart attacks kill more surely then rattler venom.</p> <p>The way that town has grown, the rattlers must be scurrying ouwards in all directions.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118736 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/ABC23/12182/#c_118736 <p>Having lived in Tehachapi for 15 years I can say that the only rattlers I ever saw were nowhere near town.  My ex killed one at the ranch because it was near where my grandson was playing.  Because the terrtory around Tehachapi is rocky, it's more likely you'll see them out in the boonies.  Living at the ranch for 5 years, I pretty much only saw gopher snakes which are almost as deadly as a rattler to me.  Heart attacks kill more surely then rattler venom.</p> <p>The way that town has grown, the rattlers must be scurrying ouwards in all directions.</p>