"Hiss, My Asp!" Ky. pastor wants snakes confiscated in Tenn.

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Ky. pastor wants snakes confiscated in Tenn.

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 8:06 AM MIDDLESBORO, Ky. - An eastern Kentucky pastor wants Tennessee wildlife officials to return five venomous snakes confiscated in Knoxville.

Gregory Coots, who's known as Jamie Coots, is pastor of at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro. Coots handles the snakes as part of worship services.

He told WYMT-TV in Hazard he bought three rattlesnakes and two copperheads in Alabama on Jan. 31. While he was driving through Knoxville, police stopped Coots for dark window tinting and saw the cages containing the snakes. A state wildlife officer confiscated them.

The district attorney general's office in Knoxville says Coots is charged with illegally possessing and transporting wildlife.

Coots was similarly charged in Kentucky in 2008. He said he now has a permit for snakes in Kentucky.

[Rob]

:yesnod: It is illegal to own, transport, or even kill any snake native to TN inside of TN

:seasix:

[lspencer534]

Waitadamnfeckinminnit! Someone paid to buy rattlesnakes and copperheads??? Hell, just go out into the woods and capture them if you gotta have 'em that bad! I wonder how much he paid for them....

[Calif Vetteman]

Waitadamnfeckinminnit! Someone paid to buy rattlesnakes and copperheads??? Hell, just go out into the woods and capture them if you gotta have 'em that bad! I wonder how much he paid for them....

These were house broken ! :leaving:

[island14]

:yesnod: It is illegal to own, transport, or even kill any snake native to TN inside of TN

:seasix:

Call me a criminal if you like, but any copperheads, rattle snakes, or water moccasins around me.... will get smashed with a shovel.. :yesnod:

[Blademaker]

Years ago, when our children were young, we were seeking a new church home close to our house.
There was a new one, up the street.
In a triple wide trailer.
I should have known better.
So one sunday morning we all went for a visit.
The minister started right out screaming and yelling at the top of his voice, running around the "sanctuary", waving his arms, getting all red in the face and carrying on like I have never seen in my life.
He dashes up the aisle and hops in the chair next to where I'm sitting and screams some more.
At that point, I looked over at my wife and said "If this SOB pulls a snake outta his jacket, I'm gonna drop him faster than Mike Tyson."

We never went back.

True story.