# I would s\*\*t my pants if I was this cop. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964 "2008-04-19T01:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/61 "2008-04-24T21:27:07Z")
[QUOTE=guizot] Why don’t you reload. You missed your foot. [/QUOTE] Nope, I need my feet to escape. I’m pretty sure a snake that big would only be pissed off after nine rounds. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/62 "2008-04-24T21:32:44Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] (snip)The blacksnakes, for example, were far more ill-tempered than “my” copperhead. (snip) [/QUOTE] The [whitesnakes](http://whitesnake.com/redsite/index.asp), on the other hand, are pretty cool! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/63 "2008-04-24T21:56:31Z")
Jeez. Cheesy 80s throwback much? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/64 "2008-04-24T22:48:20Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] [http://www.kptv.com/news/15925809/detail.html](http://www.kptv.com/news/15925809/detail.html) Damn. I would have nightmares for years after that event. This dude is a stud. How would you react? [/QUOTE] I’m unimpressed by this article. I’m not affraid of snakes nor repulsed by tyhem, if I know they aren’t poisonous. So, I would probably try to do what he did if asked to, without much of a second thought. That said, maybe I would be wrong in thinking that I’m not putting myself in a significant danger, and hence would get a Darwin award for it but I wouldn’t have at first thought of this situation as life threatening or nightmarish. Had I witnessed the incident, I would probably just have thought of it as bizarre and worth mentionning : “I saw a cop struggling with a huge snake” but wouldn’t have thought the cop needed brass balls to do it. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/65 "2008-04-25T07:06:57Z")
I grew up near Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base and one street in my town was completely populated by Marines who all deployed overseas at the same time leaving all of their wives alone. The wives helped each other with everything while their husbands were deployed. One time, one of them found a snake in her yard while all of the husbands were gone (have I told this story before ? ) The snake was killed by all of the women on the street. It was killed by being run over by a lawn mower. It was killed by being beaten by a hoe. It was killed by being doused with gasoline and set on fire. Finally, it was killed (again) by being shot with a shotgun. (have I told this story before ? ) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/66 "2008-04-25T12:34:53Z")
I don’t usually boast, but I was there while the event was unfolding. I took a shot with my camera phone. [Here it is.](http://www.snakesonablog.com/swp/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/SOAP-conan.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964/67 "2008-04-25T15:31:03Z")
I don’t quite understand keeping a snake as a pet. A pet paper shredder would be a little more entertaining. Despite the Tarzan movies, pythons aren’t that scary. The bitey end is as deadly as a toy poodle :rolleyes: , and the wrappy part is a one-trick critter. If you’re more clever than a mouse, you’re okay. Tarzan had to work to make it look like he was in peril. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-s-t-my-pants-if-i-was-this-cop/445964.md?page=3)