What is the biggest dilemma you've found yourself in?

On base in Ali Al Saleem back in 2006 in Kuwait, I saw a sand viper.

I wasn't the first one who saw it, but everyone around me was freaking out. I was 29, and I had been handling snakes since about eight years old. For the most part, nothing big, just snakes are found in the yard in Ohio (I'm not including the Eastern diamondback I caught in Meridian, Mississippi back in 96). The three venomous snakes in Ohio are all found south of Columbus.

A lot of people are scared of snakes and react poorly when it comes to dealing with them, but on that day I was surprisingly calm.

Some people had weapons drawn, 9mm, one person even had a loaded M-16 (or M-4, I was in the Navy and don't know much about guns). People we're screaming, but I took control of the situation and told everyone to back away.

The worst thing you can do on a base in a war zone, (Kuwait is still considered a war zone), was fire a weapon. those who are around with know that you are shooting at a snake, but those who hear the gunshots would believe we are being attacked and all hell would break loose.

I knew that and calmed everybody the fuck down and told them to back away. Meanwhile, the snake is striking because people are surrounding it.

I had studied snakes for years and knew that the sand viper was the third most venomous snake in the middle East.

I grabbed the M-16, cleared it, and put the butt of the rifle on the snake's head. Once the snake's head was secured I picked it up.

Exclamations from everywhere, "Dude, you're fucking nuts" "Godofwine, you crazy, man." "That ninja think he's the black crocodile Hunter" but I stayed calm, held on to the snake's head, had someone dump out an ammo container and put the snake in there. (Ironically, 2 months later the crocodile hunter was killed)

I walked with the snake in the ammo container about half a mile with a buddy of mine who held the M-16. At one of the farthest fences from the main part of the base, I dumped out the ammo container, used the M-16 to pin down the viper's head so I can pick it up again, and threw it over the fence.

I thought the dilemma was simply if I had gotten bit, I would have had to get anti-venin. What I didn't know, was none of the higher-ups at thought to supply anti-venin on the base!

So, had I NOT known what I was doing and allowed the snake to bite me, I would have had to drive to a base over an hour away for treatment... Which likely would have meant my death.

So, my tempting fate made someone higher up realize that maybe we should supply anti-venin on each of the satellite bases and not just the main base in Kuwait. So it's possible I saved lives by risking my own to get the sand viper off the base. The picture of me holding it is floating around here somewhere

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Bruh, is that the viper your holding?? I dont know anything about snakes, Im not tryin to be funny or anything along those lines.. But it looks like a baby snake..
 
After my mother's death, I received her monthly pension every month, will receive for my life. Also, she transferred my brother's life insurance beneficiary to me, I have been make the payments since a year before her death.

He is always talking mad shit, needs the money way more than I need it, not sure if I should tell him or not. :ssshhh:

If I tell him, he might have a damn heart attack, but he needs to know this was done in case I need to take care of him in the future.

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Bruh, is that the viper your holding?? I dont know anything about snakes, Im not tryin to be funny or anything along those lines.. But it looks like a baby snake..
yeah its hard to imagine grown ass mufuckas drawing down on a baby viper. they coulda just stepped on the mufucka.
shit looks to be about 8 inches long if that.
 
Circa 1995 while my common sense was intoxicated by new stripper pussy (her name was "So Fine"). I found myself in the Pink Houses (projects in NYC) elevator with a mouthful of white gold "diamond" fronts, Jacob watch, 1/2 kilo Cuban link (tucked), and 3 unsavory individuals looking to relieve me of those aforementioned hood trappings.

Little did they know, also on my person was one M&P .45 in my hoody pocket. Those niggas must have felt something was up. We got to the lobby, I got off after them and was right on the heels of nigga whom I assumed had the machine. One of the other dudes hit me with the old "Yo, do you know what time it is".... "Nah" as I proceeded to walk out of the doors and to my car. Shit was wild, and could have ended very badly for me in multiple ways.
 
yeah its hard to imagine grown ass mufuckas drawing down on a baby viper. they coulda just stepped on the mufucka.
shit looks to be about 8 inches long if that.

That brotha got brass balls to pick that snake up!! My ass wouldve been running the opposite way!!

I was station over in Hawaii and they had the biggest centipedes ive ever seen.. While in the field, my foxhole brotha got bit by one and said it felt like someone put a cigar out on his calf.. Heres a pic of what they look like...
 
Bruh, is that the viper your holding?? I dont know anything about snakes, Im not tryin to be funny or anything along those lines.. But it looks like a baby snake..
yeah its hard to imagine grown ass mufuckas drawing down on a baby viper. they coulda just stepped on the mufucka.
shit looks to be about 8 inches long if that.
There's been discussion about the statement that juvenile snakes are more venomous or if their venom is more virulent than adult snakes. The fact of the matter is the venom from every venomous snake is potentially dangerous and, though this is a venomous juvenile viper I'm holding, the medication needed to treat me was maybe a 90 minute drive away.

Baby venomous snakes are still dangerous. Do not let the size fool you. Had I been bitten, it would have been very, very bad for me, baby viper or not
 
That brotha got brass balls to pick that snake up!! My ass wouldve been running the opposite way!!

I was station over in Hawaii and they had the biggest centipedes ive ever seen.. While in the field, my foxhole brotha got bit by one and said it felt like someone put a cigar out on his calf.. Heres a pic of what they look like...
Yeah, those boys eat mice. believe me if I didn't know what I was doing I wouldn't have tried to pick up that snake.
 
There's been discussion about the statement that juvenile snakes are more venomous or if their venom is more virulent than adult snakes. The fact of the matter is the venom from every venomous snake is potentially dangerous and, though this is a venomous juvenile viper I'm holding, the medication needed to treat me was maybe a 90 minute drive away.

Baby venomous snakes are still dangerous. Do not let the size fool you. Had I been bitten, it would have been very, very bad for me, baby viper or not

Bruh, your one brave kat!! You couldnt pay me enuf to grab any size snake!!
 
There's been discussion about the statement that juvenile snakes are more venomous or if their venom is more virulent than adult snakes. The fact of the matter is the venom from every venomous snake is potentially dangerous and, though this is a venomous juvenile viper I'm holding, the medication needed to treat me was maybe a 90 minute drive away.

Baby venomous snakes are still dangerous. Do not let the size fool you. Had I been bitten, it would have been very, very bad for me, baby viper or not
oh believe me nigga i know. i got bit by a baby Cottonmouth, maybe a couple inches longer than the one you're holding, and it squeezed off every ounce of venom in my foot. about a year later, i got bit by an adult Cottonmouth, but it was a dry bite. it hurt like hell though. but getting bit by the baby ones are the worse.
 
I have 2, the first was when I was leaving basic training in Orlando due to health issues, going back home with no money no job and no prospects. I had to give plasma,pawn everything I owned just to get gas to look for work and eat. I did this for a year b4 I finally got the call that set me up with the job that put me on the path. That shit was rough I went a year eating lettuse,can tuna, cucumbers and dressing mixed in salads cause thats all I could afford to spend. The 2nd was when I had just gradutaed from high school and was dating this girl who was very religious so no sex no head no anything but her girlfriend was all about sneaking around with me. She called me and told me she was late and might be pregs. that was horrible cause if she was all hell would break loose between her and my gf ,their families,the church we all attended,the image I was cultivating as a good boy,the scholarship monies that was still on the line from church. Luckily her period came and everything worked out but that was a week of stress like no other.
 
Bruh, your one brave kat!! You couldnt pay me enuf to grab any size snake!!
I've got a 6 ft ball python that I took to Walmart a couple weeks ago and occasionally sit him on my head. I took Kentaro to Walmart a few weeks ago, lol. Some people were tripping, other people wanted to touch him


 
yeah its hard to imagine grown ass mufuckas drawing down on a baby viper. they coulda just stepped on the mufucka.
shit looks to be about 8 inches long if that.
babies are more dangerous then adults adults control how much poison they release babies don't
 
I've got a 6 ft ball python that I took to Walmart a couple weeks ago and occasionally sit him on my head. I took Kentaro to Walmart a few weeks ago, lol. Some people were tripping, other people wanted to touch him




Damn, bruh!! What do you feed that snake?? Is it true, that those types of snakes like live food or will they eat anything??
 
I've got a 6 ft ball python that I took to Walmart a couple weeks ago and occasionally sit him on my head. I took Kentaro to Walmart a few weeks ago, lol. Some people were tripping, other people wanted to touch him


i used to get the same shit with my redtailed boa.....
i got rid of him after he got 10ft.
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Damn, bruh!! What do you feed that snake?? Is it true, that those types of snakes like live food or will they eat anything??
I feed him live mice. The downside is PetSmart, which is about five minutes away, stopped selling live mice. Now, I've got to find a new supplier because I don't want to feed him frozen mice.

I sing the Lord of castamere (from Game of Thrones) as he's snatching them up
 
when I was 17
going pro vs going to school

looking back on it

I should have gone pro
Could always have gone back to school after or if it didnt work out

but typical african family, chose school

Happy with my life
but sometimes I wonder

I understand what you mean!!

When I joined the military, I had the scores to become a helicopter pilot. But at the time, I needed just 2 yrs of college to get accepted.. I choose to become an electrician in the army, instead!! Looking back on it, I shouldve went to college for a few years and then joined the military.. Sum days I find myself thinking about the choice I made.. Dont get me wrong, I did pretty good as an electrician. But, I wonder what my life wouldve become, if I went to school first!!
 
when I was 17
going pro vs going to school

looking back on it

I should have gone pro
Could always have gone back to school after or if it didnt work out

but typical african family, chose school

Happy with my life
but sometimes I wonder

What sport?
 
What sport?

football (soccer)

i was pretty good..played for England school boys
and got called for trials
played for the youth team of a big club
but when it stared to get in the way of school
with traveling and games, etc
decided to focus on school
 
Back in '99 got my third string pussy pregnant. She was the type I NEVER was seen in public with. Would do all kind of nasty shit to her just to see what her limit was (never found it). Taught me a lesson to stop going raw...especially with chicks who have nothing to offer other than pussy and problems. Often wonder how different my life would have been if she didn't take care of it.
 
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football (soccer)

i was pretty good..played for England school boys
and got called for trials
played for the youth team of a big club
but when it stared to get in the way of school
with traveling and games, etc
decided to focus on school

Oh wow that's dope.

Question for you...don't the big football club educate their players. I know Christian Pulisic moved to Germany to go pro at 16 and he went to school there while playing for Borussia Dortmund. Why couldn't you go to school and play for the big club?

I could be wrong, but it isn't like America where if you go pro in any sport, there's no more school.

Or maybe the education from a soccer club isn't the same as going to secondary school in Europe?
 
Oh wow that's dope.

Question for you...don't the big football club educate their players. I know Christian Pulisic moved to Germany to go pro at 16 and he went to school there while playing for Borussia Dortmund. Why couldn't you go to school and play for the big club?

I could be wrong, but it isn't like America where if you go pro in any sport, there's no more school.

Or maybe the education from a soccer club isn't the same as going to secondary school in Europe?

Its different now, they have tutors with the players
especially as these days kids start really young
a lot of teams will have an academy where kids get signed at 5...
so the teams pay a lot of attention to schooling

but back in my day we didnt have that
the academy system is still pretty young
we had to get noticed the old school way
playing games for regular schools and in tournaments

you couldn't really focus on school and play to a high level

GCSE at 15/16 is 10+subjects
Alevels at 17/18 is 4-5 subjects

so you are studying for 10 subjects
playing games on wednesday and saturdays
and traveling for tourneys every other month

one has to give
 
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I've got a 6 ft ball python that I took to Walmart a couple weeks ago and occasionally sit him on my head. I took Kentaro to Walmart a few weeks ago, lol. Some people were tripping, other people wanted to touch him

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Back in '99 got my third string pussy pregnant. She was the type I NEVER was seen in public with. Would do all kind of nasty shit to her just to see what her limit was (never found it). Taught me a lesson to stop going raw...especially with chicks who have mother to offer other than pussy and problems. Often wonder how different my life would have been if she didn't take care of it.
Abortion saved your ass. And though this third string chick who didn't have a limit, maybe this did something for her as well, maybe not.

Sometimes our lives are shaped by things that didn't happen. Funny how that shit is. Many of the women in the Black community would likely be better off if they had one do-over, even though a lot of them would just blow it again.

My sister-in-law had an abortion, got pregnant again a month later and end up keeping it because she didn't want to have two abortions in less than a couple months.

I would hope that if so many of the Black women, who are convinced by family or by religion that abortion isn't a choice, would be better off if they had that one chance to show they were mortal and it COULD happen to them instead of just having the kid because they feel obligated.
 
yeah, been there, done that ..... tee-shirt cost like :money: and suspended for a yr ..... them classes AA was the enlightening shyt tho ..... the stories i heard .....

Mine was in TX too. For the dismissal program, I had to use portal breathalyzer 3 times a day, report to PO monthly, do community service with other shitbags, and take classes. If I was noncompliant with any aspect of the program, that shit would be on my permanent record.

You brothers think twice before getting behind the wheel, even if you’ve only “had a couple”. I got stopped on a Saturday afternoon as I ran back to grocery store to get some lighter fluid. Passed a car without signaling, got stopped...shit snowballed. I couldn’t say a word cause I put myself in that fucked up position. Had 3 motherfucking units surrounding my shit (I wonder why???) and I’m in shorts and flip flops. It ain’t fucking worth it. Plus, the system will double down on fucking with you once it realizes you have a family, career, and means.
 
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