Dead rattler may have legs

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By John Trumbo, Herald staff writer

Nancy McLeod of West Richland knew she had snakes in her back yard, but she had no idea one of them was a biped.

The 2-foot-long reptile, which McLeod believes is a rattler, was discovered Thursday morning on her Red Mountain Road property as a friend was helping her burn tumbleweeds.

Pedro Osorio, 46, said he shoved a pitchfork into a tumbleweed, lifted it and saw the snake on the ground. After placing the weed onto the fire, he forked the snake and tossed it into the flames also.

Osorio said he noticed the strange little appendages on the charred snake after the fire died down.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/6458377p-6337893c.html

[NorthernSpy]

1. poor snake!

That stupid clod of a woman ought to be ashamed of herself:

A reporter and editors ran with the tale, but more than a few readers savvy about snakes notified the newspaper Friday morning that those legs were more than likely the reptile's sex organs, which were expelled from the body when it was tossed alive onto a pie of burning tumbleweeds.

Those aren't legs at all," said Mike Wingfield, a Richland resident, self-described retired snake handler and amateur herpetologist. He said the appendages are the snake's hemipenes, a sexual feature also present in lizards.

"When snakes die in agonizing pain, like being burned alive, the penises expose themselves," he said.

:(

[Tikki]

2. Well, since her backyard....

backs up to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation...it should be of no suprise that the snake....as the woman said..."Obviously is a mutant".


Tikki

[underpants]

3. Bill Cosby covered this a LONG time ago

They wear Chuck Taylors.

[bleedingheart]

4. did it offer her an apple?

[BringEmOn]

5. Check for Bush family DNA