# Beck is bitten! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764 "2020-08-11T03:14:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/41 "2020-08-15T19:25:23Z")
Our back yard had three neglected pecan trees. A little known fact about pecans is that their fallen branches look just like sunning black snakes. Scared the bejeesus out of me when I was cleaning the yard. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/42 "2020-08-15T20:08:14Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Does a dead wasp count?Bees don’t bite Neither do wasps. However, unlike a bee, a wasp can sting multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/43 "2020-08-15T20:35:57Z")
An ex-boyfriend of mine had about convinced a cousin of his once that snakes in the Northeast (specifically, Connecticut) grew fur because the winters there got so cold. The cousin was disbelieving until a long, tubular object covered with fur was pointed out to him. It was sticking out of a bush. He was _just_ on the verge of believing when the cat walked out, bringing the fur snake with it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/44 "2020-08-15T20:40:10Z")
Well, that cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/45 "2020-08-15T23:01:03Z")
When I was about 9 or 10 my best friend Rene and I caught a largish red stripe garter snake ( We lived relatively near one of the biggest [breeding pits of them](http://www.naturenorth.com/spring/creature/garter/Fgarter.html)) and he thought he’d impress the girls by sticking the otherwise calm snake’s head …into his mouth. Needless to say all the snake saw was a tasty looking pink wriggling thing so he bit down. Garter snakes also have backwards pointing teeth to help grip their prey, which in this case was Rene running around with his tongue out with a 2 foot long snake hanging on for dear life. He wrenched it off, bleeding profusely, and tossed it into the ditch where it slithered away. We went to his mom’s to get his tongue patched up after I stopped laughing. BTW, girls were not impressed. All this to say, you probably got off easy there, Becks. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/46 "2020-08-16T00:10:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Does a dead wasp count? You know, you got to be careful of dead bees if you’re goin’ around barefooted, 'cause if you step on them they can sting you just as bad as if they was alive, especially if they was kind of mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way. And if you’ve never seen the Bogart classic _To Have and Have Not_, I fear I have just wasted a bit of your time. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/47 "2020-08-16T02:10:15Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > You know, you got to be careful of dead bees if you’re goin’ around barefooted, 'cause if you step on them they can sting you just as bad as if they was alive, especially if they was kind of mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way. Why don’t you bite them back? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-bitten/917764/48 "2020-08-16T02:28:48Z")
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