AOPA Pilot Magazine - May 2014 - 118
NEVER AGAIN
Although the skin on the back of my
neck was still operating like an accordion
playing Twelfth Street Rag, I began to think
ahead. Near as I can figure, when I collected
my senses enough to go back to the business
of flying the airplane, we were still about 40
miles out of Vero Beach.
Then something prompted me to pick
up the mic-slowly and deliberately, of
course-and call the CAA station at Vero
Beach:
"Vero Beach Radio, Bonanza One Three
King."
"Vero Beach Radio, go ahead One Three
King."
"Anybody down there know anything
about snakes?"
A startled silence for a moment, then:
"Why? What's the trouble?"
"I've got a big black one staring me in
the eye."
There was another rattling of the mic in
the station, then another voice:
"What's it look like?"
"It's long, it's black, and it's moving
around the back of the cabin at a great rate."
He thought for a moment, then:
"Is it a dull black or a shiny black?"
This required another quick study of
Montmorency.
"Shiny."
"Hmmm. Sounds to me like it's a black
snake. Black snakes are shiny. Gopher
snakes are dull. Neither one is poisonous.
But I wouldn't recommend you fool with
him if he's a gopher snake, because although
they're not poisonous-gopher snakes kill
rattlesnakes."
Me fool with him? Silly boy. I cringe at
touching an angleworm.
By now we were crossing something
called Blue Cypress Lake, about 22 miles
from the Vero Beach airport. Doc was still
soothing me. He suggested I pull my socks
up over my pant legs "just in case."
All the time I kept remembering the
many Zoo Parade TV programs I enjoyed so
much, with Marlin Perkins very expertly juggling all kinds of snakes, virtually all deadly
poisonous. I remembered that he used a special "snake stick," which looked like a golf
club with a flat right-angle piece of metal at
the bottom. He'd just put that piece of metal
gently behind the snake's head, pin the head
firmly to the ground, then reach down and
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The First to Sign Up
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A Plane-Crazy America
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Same as it Ever Was
What If?
Advanced Technology
How Will We Fly in 2089?
Never Again
AOPA Action
State & Local Action
Member Services
AOPA Foundation
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