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My uncle told me once about going through basic in Louisiana during ww2. Soldiers had to crawl under wire for 50 yards with live fire going over the top. His job was to check for snakes beforehand. One day he found one, a diamond back and cut off its head as usual with a shovel. He was showing it to a friend when a recruit walked up and reached out with his hand. Before my uncle could pull it away, the head lept off the shovel and bit the kid in the hand. Snakes is some scary varmints.
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