| having a serpent, albeit a harmless one, in your garage is another matter. I personally have no qualms when it comes to snakes, spiders on the other hand trigger an instictual response in me. I realize many people share such a response for snakes. These snakes are typically found in farm structures like barns and toolsheds because there are rodents nesting inside.
Sidestory....
For a short time prior to my military years I lived in Charleston, SC....downtown in an apartment building. We had a ridiculous roach problem....not the big huge roaches, but the smaller "german roaches". They were EVERYWHERE. My roommate and I were clean people. No food laying around, no dirty dishes stacked up, no overflowing trash cans...but these roaches dominated when the sun went down and the lights were off. They were behind the cabinets, in the sink, bathroom, even in the living room behind the trim-molding on the walls.
It made no sense, we had been paying an exterminator for months, no change. We thought maybe he was spraying water or diluting his chemicals to keep from killing too many roaches, so we tried another exterminator, no change. Then one night I came home late in the middle of the night and switched on the light in the kitchen and it literally looked like "Joe's Apartment"....roaches scattered in every direction for cover from the light. So one day when talking to someone who grew up in Charleston, we were told that the roaches were simply playing musical apartments shifting from ours to our neighbors' when the roach man sprayed and vice versa when the other roach man sprayed the other apartments, among other methods to evade death. The person then said that if we wanted "the little bastards gone once and for all" to buy a House Gecko from any local reptile shop and turn it loose in the apartment. So we did. Within 2 weeks roach sightings dropped significantly. By the end of the month, no roaches to be found and the gecko had gone from a skinny pet shop gecko to a hulking michelin man of a gecko. His tail was so fat it was comical. The gecko set up shop underneath the refrigerator and only came out at night and he simply feasted on roaches. So basically there is more than one way to skin a cat and sometimes the less "conventional" manners can be the most effective.
 "What a curiosity our new political correctness has made of our public spaces. Let your sex tape loose on the Internet and be rewarded with your own TV show;
photograph a crucifix in a jar of urine and our museums will vie to exhibit it; occupy someone else’s property and you will be hailed by the president for your keen social conscience.
But call people who blow up, behead, and mutilate, “savage” — and polite society will find you offensive."
--Jared Silverman "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
--Winston Churchill "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
--Benjamin Franklin "Government is not reason. It is not eloquent. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
"The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury."
--George Washington END THE FED
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