When I was a kid we went back in a field to swim in a pond one day . On the way back out we ran into one of these and took off running , seemed the snake ran right along with us for short time ! Scared the BEGEESAS out of me I don't mind saying .
I dig with a buddy who loathes snakes. One farm dump digging day not too long ago, he plucks a 1940's orange kist from the ground, stands up, wipes off the dirt and proceeds to drop the bottle (which broke) because he spotted a snake inside....a garden snake LOL!
Me? I just fling them with my digging tool and go about my business.[]
What scares the Ba Jesus out of me is when your digging an some dirt falls into your hole an you spot a snake.. I am not afaird of snakes but for the first few seconds your tryin to figure out if it's a poisonous snake or not your heart is racing...
i whent to one of my dumps with a friend and were tossing the old glass behind us and i tossed a busted bottle on 5 1/2 foot rattle snake,i have seen other snakes there before corn and black snakes but that was the 1st rattler.figured he would have rettled when hit with the bottle but just moved enough to see what he was.
I got it pretty lucky up in New England, no poisonous snakes, mostly small 6-12" ones. We do have some 3-5' long black snakes that are fast and get your heart pounding, but luckily I've never dug up one of them lol.
Here's my little buddy I ran into a while back. I posted a pic of him not to long ago on here. Im not really scared of snakes but he did startle me a little when he slithered out of this jar.