i think alot of people on here are confusing the difference between a cottonmouth and a COPPER head.

I think a lot of people here need to grow up and learn to deal with nature without killing it because they don't understand or are afraid of it.

I am scared of spiders, ridiculously so even, but I don't kill 'em.

He did, but a coral snake is a killer everytime damn near, especially w/ no fresh antivenin.
Copperheads, not so much. pain? oh hell yeah!, death? probably not.

I grew up in South Florida, It was 30 years ago, I was 12 years old at the time and I was not around at the scene but a young girl I knew had caught a Coral Snake and had been carrying it around with her almost all day and showing it off to her friends. When the snake finally had enough and bit her she was carrying it around her neck, It bit her in the neck and she was dead 5 minutes afterwards. I still have the news paper article.

Snakes serve their purpose.

Without them we'd be overwhelmed with rodents and rabbits.

I try not to kill anything unless it's seriously jackin with me, or I want to eat it.

The way I see it a snake (or any critter for that matter) is just trying to make a living, just like me.

+1 Bingo

I've hunted and fished in Texas all of my life and only seen one coral snake, but I'm a West Texas boy so I guess thats why. The coral snake I did see was while fishing on the Llano river.