And before the tree-huggers jump all over my case, know I spent 4 decades as an ER doc in trauma centers. I have first hand experience with the damage these critters can cause. One dead child sticks out in my memory as the victim of an Eastern diamondback envenomation. I realize they are just being snakes but they are not at all endangered and they can live their lives peacefully as long as it is nowhere near my property. I will not become a statistic.
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