quite frankly he could have simply gotten a stick and moved it away.....pinning it and killing it made him more of a man in his neighbors eyes as well as his own....if someone one sat on a pitbull and cut it's head off cause OMG it was heading for my neighbors house and gonna kill them or their kittens PETA would be all over it but because in most americans eyes thanks to the media it was just a stupid snake.....Had that happened here in az chances are he would have been hit with a ticket and or prison time thanks to having many endangered species of rattler thanks to macho men like him