Winger Ed.
Chief Petty Officer
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- Mar 24, 2004
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Rodbolt reminded me of this,,<br /><br />While stationed at MCB Quantico, VA, I used to work with a guy whose main goal in life was having fun at someone else's expense.<br /><br />No practical joke was too severe, or caused too bad of a injury---- to someone else. <br /><br />Naturally, You weren't allowed to pick on him in any form or fashion or he'd go whine to the 'Boss'. <br /><br />Once someone told me he was terrified of snakes.<br />So, at the earliest opportunity, I caught and threw a baby water mocasin on him while he sat at his desk, It was only about a 2 footer that I'd caught and scooped up inside the Hanger with one of the many snow shovels we stored behind the Hanger doors. (the Air Station was only a few yards from the Potomac River, and snakes & other critters would come inside the hanger every once in awhile.)<br /><br />Naturally, he freaked. He didn't stop screaming and running around until he was on the verge of collapsing. I really got yelled at for that one, but it was worth it.<br /><br />Anyway:<br /><br />One day his older brother, who was also a career Marine, came to visit. I asked him if Bob had always been so afraid of snakes like he was.<br /><br />When his brother finally stopped laughing, he told me of a duck hunting trip they made one day as teenagers in Georgia.<br /><br />He was driving a jon boat up one of the rivers there, Bob was in the front. As they were going upriver, he saw a water mocasin sunning itself on a tree branch that overhung the water.<br /><br />So, he went over and bumped the tree. The snake fell into the boat.........<br /><br />In about 1/2 a second, Bob had shot 5 holes in the bottom of the jon boat with a 12 guage pump shotgun.<br /><br />He was so panicked, he never hit the snake. <br /><br />But, as columns of water shot up from the hull inside the boat, and as the boat started sinking, it got real 'busy' for a few minutes....... <br /><br />The older brother started laughing again so hard that he never did finish the story. <br /><br />Ed.
