Hey all. I have a mate who lives on a sheep property in Longreach, Queensland. It's about 80, 000 acres and he regularly gets big venomous visitors (namely tigers and King Browns).
His dad killed an eight foot long King Brown
. Amazing!
First of all, I know how APS works so I want to be sure I specificy I don't want this thread to turn into a big crying festival. I know killing snakes is wrong, and illegal, and I should educate people etc etc but the fact is they kill snakes on farms. And they won't stop because I suggested it (yes, I did try, no I'm not a defeatist).
He reckons they kill snakes in this weird way, and I'd like to know if there's any way it could work, not having seen it.
They have a long thick wire, with a handle on it. They swing the wire down onto the snakes back as close as possible to the head, and it breaks the back... Apparently then, while thrashing around, because they can't feel below the break, they bite and envenomate themselves. This kills them.
Thoughts (on this method not on the morality of killing snakes)?
