TommyG
Viper Owner
Was out yesterday at Harris Hill Road in San Marcos testing out my new alignment specs and rake adjustment that I had done this week. It was a perfect weather day in the low 70's and clear.
I am cruising through the course when I see a black shiny area on the road and my first thought is the car ahead was spilling somthing like oil so I stay clear. Just as I approach, I see a head come up and the the shiny black starts to sliver across the road. It looked huge and like a rattler.
I figure, we don't need poison snakes off track just in case someone gets the scare of there lives while going off track and perhaps getting out of the car, so I tell myself if the snake is still on the road my next pass, it will have to face a match with my red snake.
Sure enough it is still there and so I aim and feel the hit. Boy I was supprised at how the car jumped up when front/rear tires made contact on this thing. I am glad I was preppared because it I had not been, and was comming into the turn hot, it sure would have thrown the car off.
One of the workers goes out with a shovel and when he comes back in, he tells me it was a 4+ foot Rat Snake. I feel kinda bad at this point because I would have left it alone, if I did not think it was a rattler or some other poison type snake.
He then tells me that I avenged a mother bunny rabbit as the snake had just swallowed up some 10 tiny weeny baby rabbits and must have been out for a crawl to try and digest its luch. I guess that explains the double thud I felt when I drove over it.
I am cruising through the course when I see a black shiny area on the road and my first thought is the car ahead was spilling somthing like oil so I stay clear. Just as I approach, I see a head come up and the the shiny black starts to sliver across the road. It looked huge and like a rattler.
I figure, we don't need poison snakes off track just in case someone gets the scare of there lives while going off track and perhaps getting out of the car, so I tell myself if the snake is still on the road my next pass, it will have to face a match with my red snake.
Sure enough it is still there and so I aim and feel the hit. Boy I was supprised at how the car jumped up when front/rear tires made contact on this thing. I am glad I was preppared because it I had not been, and was comming into the turn hot, it sure would have thrown the car off.
One of the workers goes out with a shovel and when he comes back in, he tells me it was a 4+ foot Rat Snake. I feel kinda bad at this point because I would have left it alone, if I did not think it was a rattler or some other poison type snake.
He then tells me that I avenged a mother bunny rabbit as the snake had just swallowed up some 10 tiny weeny baby rabbits and must have been out for a crawl to try and digest its luch. I guess that explains the double thud I felt when I drove over it.
