“Don’t worry, honey, that’s not a venomous snake; it doesn’t look like a copperhead.”
A Bolivar woman who knows her snakes encountered a really weird one while riding her bike on the Frisco Highline Trail.
Near one of the first bridges on the southbound route she rode past the snake, then turned around for a closer look.
“It never moved,” said Christy Dablemont, 47. “I never got closer than two or three feet to take pictures. It didn’t move when I rode past it or when I came back.”
The snake was a venomous copperhead, but with unusual markings down its back. Instead of “Hershey’s Kisses” markings along its side, the snake’s back was mostly a pattern of bronze-colored lines.
Well, if we keep decapitating copperheads that look like copperheads with a hoe, only the ones that look different will remain to pass on their genes.
Which is why I recommend decapitating all snakes just to be sure.
