Quote Originally Posted by 771subliminal View Post
your 21 and live around several hots have you stepped outside on one and been bit? how many people that you know personally have been bit? and im willing to bet that people in your area have not killed them all off.

dogs, cats, birds, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, etc all can bite and can all carry some diseases that can kill you but yet people dont go out and kill everyone that is around cuz some kid might get bit.
When I was a kid I lived in Winston-Salem NC and I had some very close run-ins with snakes, venomous and non.

My dog was struck at, and luckily missed, by a copperhead in my neighborhood. My dad swiftly sent him into after life.

Then while on my bike as cottonmouth struck at me as I pedaled over a bridge near a lake.

So no, I have never been bit but I have had run-ins with poisonous snakes. And I have left the majority of them alive. The only one killed was the one in my neighborhood. The ones in the mountains and nature trails I've always left alone.