Years ago I put a fellow workers 4 ft Python around my neck didn't take but a second for me to remove him when he started to constrict...
About 15 years ago I had to turkey hunt one spring on crutches because of a fractured femur head...crutches weren't too bad but Jim Bowie riding shotgun was.
I've handled and been bitten by my share of non venomous snakes when I was young but truth is I've never felt close enough to God to be handling a live poisonous snake.
One morning I was strolling back to the truck on my crutches and crossed paths with a beautiful King snake...her first reaction was to flea...then to defend...then to submit. She wrapped around my crutch and made the 100 yard walk to the truck with me.
I thought about keeping her...but I never have kept a snake. I knew I didn't need to get an infection from a bite so I laid the crutch down and let the King crawl away.
