Completely off-topic but I worked in a pet store for several years. One day a woman called and asked if we could identify a snake she found in her front yard. We told her we would try if she would bring in in something we could see the snake in but that it couldn't get out of. She was worried it might bite her children. So an hour later or so the woman and her entire family come trooping in with a five gallon bucket with a lid on it. She sets it down gingerly in front of the manager like it might explode and takes several steps back. Tina (the general manager) cracks open the lid while everyone watched with bated breath. She leans carefully over and doesn't see anything. She continues pushing the lid back trying to catch a glimpse of the snake. Finally frustrated she throws the lid off the bucket and peers intently at the inmate. She looks up with a funny look on her face and reaches into the bucket. At this point the woman throws herself backward dragging her children with her, forcing them to stand behind her with this look of horror on her face. Tina brings her hand out of the bucket holding a turtle. I mean really. A turtle.
On another note I had to catch a snake on the sidewalk a few businesses down from the petstore and was informed by someone in the crowd that the snake must be venomous because it had a forked tongue. All snakes have forked tongues. For that matter some lizards have forked tongues...
So no, I would say a large percentage of today's people are vastly ignorant when it comes to the world around them.
And I tried to keep my birds away from the road. Especially the turkeys, ducks, and geese. I was scared some bubba might try to shoot them from the road. There was an exotic deer ranch thing up the road where that has happened several times. Which is absurd considering the person would have to climb over like a 12ft fence to get his trophy.
On another note I had to catch a snake on the sidewalk a few businesses down from the petstore and was informed by someone in the crowd that the snake must be venomous because it had a forked tongue. All snakes have forked tongues. For that matter some lizards have forked tongues...
So no, I would say a large percentage of today's people are vastly ignorant when it comes to the world around them.
And I tried to keep my birds away from the road. Especially the turkeys, ducks, and geese. I was scared some bubba might try to shoot them from the road. There was an exotic deer ranch thing up the road where that has happened several times. Which is absurd considering the person would have to climb over like a 12ft fence to get his trophy.
