There was one of these next to a golf-cart path in Charles SC. A southern copperhead. I picked it up with a club and tossed it into the woods. Quite docile.
I lived in a rental in Ft. Lauderdale that had them crawling through the living room. I still cannot believe I endured that for 3 months. No wonder I used to drink.
When I was a little girl, I loved catching tadpoles in the creek. I always used my bare hands but my parents didn't like that so they got me a little net to use instead. One day I was trying to catch tadpoles and a snake lunged out of the water and attacked the net. That pretty much scared me away from messing around in the creek. I don't know what kind of snake it was but it may have been a water moccasin as I've encountered them in my yard before as well. I may have accidentally disturbed that poor snake though, I didn't even know it was there but luckily it went for the net rather than my hand.
Yes,we were travling in Germany last year and it started to rain.....To our horror when we tried to clean the screen as we drove ,we found a vin screen Viper on our car....:(.
I sat on a Python once in a Theatre while waiting for the show start....it was summer and I was very scantily dressed ,but John Cleese never seemed to mind....:)
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