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By Anonymous - 30/08/2016 22:22 - United States - Lansdowne

Today, while kayaking with my family, I thought I saw a snake. I paddled closer to it while arguing that it was indeed a snake. Wrong. It was a duck. I need glasses. FML
I agree, your life sucks 847
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...Why were you paddling towards the maybe-snake? Aren't most water dwelling snakes not only highly aggressive but very venomous? Or is that a Southern USA thing...

penguinsgaming 18

I assume that you didn't get bitten by the duck. and indeed you need some glasses if you can't see well.

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...Why were you paddling towards the maybe-snake? Aren't most water dwelling snakes not only highly aggressive but very venomous? Or is that a Southern USA thing...

That would be sea snakes. Fresh water snakes are almost universally non-venomous. I'm not sure about the aggressive part though.

Asked about it, and apparently if it WERE to have been a snake, the fact it was in water, but with parts of its body above water, would have made it a cotton mouth, which prefer print water but also live in fresh. So yes, approaching a snake that is in the water IS a Poor Life Choice.

penguinsgaming 18

I assume that you didn't get bitten by the duck. and indeed you need some glasses if you can't see well.

One_In_Three 24

You'd think ducks normally flee from humans...

At least it wasn't a snake you thought was a duck.