Not pool related but....
I grew up in the foothills with the Angeles Nat'l Forest outside my front door.  I caught and kept baby Rattlers in an aquarium when I was a kid. 
My buddy and I were about 18 or so and one day we were driving around town in his newly restored/painted '64 Ford Falcon Sprint.  Cool car for us back then and he was happier than a pig in slop with it all fixed up.  
Anyways, we were cruzin' around town and drove by this house where the local college kids were having a party. We keep a low profile and just drive by slowly and all of a sudden... WHAM.  A rock thrown by one of the older kids whacks the side of the Sprint. All we hear is laughing as we drive away.
We keep driving a few blocks and get out to inspect. Sure enough, there is a nice half dollar size dent in the side of his door. He was pissed and wanted to call the cops. 
I had a better idea, seeing as I had lost all sensibilities and was super pissed.
We went to my house and I grabbed my dad's Colt Woodsman .22 pistol.  I was intent on lighting them F..kers up.   Luckily for my, my brother was home and wouldn't let me take the gun out of the house. 
So being the creative person that I am, I talked my brother and buddy into another idea.  We would do a drive by not with the pistol, but with a rattle snake!!  So I go into my room and grab a little 1 1/2 footer.  My brother dirves, I'm in the passenger seat, my buddy's in the back seat of my Dad's '72 Chevy van.
We cruise back by the party and there a few guys sitting on the curb... perfect!!!  I lean out the window and throw the little rattler at the guys.  As we drive away, I see the snake hit one guy in the leg and the look on his face was priceless as he realized it was a Rattle snake!!  I think just about shit his pants.
One of the guys there recognized who we were and knew my family.  The guy pressed charges and I could have been in some trouble, but the charges were dropped for some reason.  Life lesson's are great huh??  
Russ  << No longer keeps Rattler's in his bedroom!!!  
