I can understand why some people kill venomous snakes. If you have a ranch rattlers can be hell on live stock and dogs but there is something of a stastic here.

Most bites are from people that do one of two things

1. Try to kill a snake

2. Try to handle it

This guy did both and proved once again that these are the two best ways to be bitten. Like others I have limited sympathy for this guy, not so much for killing the snake but for being dumb enough to pick up the head with his hands.

Dude sould have stayed awake during high school biology!