Quote Originally Posted by Coluber42 View Post
I've always loved snakes and have never been scared of them. But what really does get me like a sucker punch to the gut is seeing them as roadkill. Maybe it's just because I've had them as pets since I was old enough to buy one with my allowance as a kid. Of course roadkill is never pretty, especially when it's an animal that you have some sort of personal up-close experience with. But there's something about the image or idea of a snake getting run over that is just especially viscerally awful.

I do a lot of road bicycling, and mostly don't see that many snakes on the road. But I live in fear of running over one, to the point where I hate even seeing cars run over bits of rope or skinny pieces of old truck tire tread or other long skinny pieces of roadside debris. It always makes me jump until I realize it wasn't a snake. I guess in that sense I'm sort of lucky that I live in an area where I'd be extremely unlikely to come across a live snake on the road for about half the year!
I actually almost hit a snake driving about six months ago. I was changing lanes and didn't see it until the last minute, it was smack dab in the middle of the highway. It was a coiled up rattlesnake, the biggest one I've ever seen!