Don't even kid about someone getting bitten! A rattler bit me in 1987, and I still am numb in the immediate forearm area. I was bent over a truck cap picking it up, and the snake was under the cap. It lunged at me, bit my forearm above the wrist, and when I stood up it came up with me wrapping around my arm! I had to take it by the head and take it off my arm. Anyway, 4 days in the hospital....all kinds of pain and one operation. I'm in the woods all the time since I was a kid..but still it happened in an instant. The best snake in my yard is a dead one......