Personally snakes do not bother me much. I have caught a lot of the nonpoisonous ones that we have in KY. Years ago, my brother and I had been mowing the yard and had lost a bolt out of the lawnmower and had started to my car to go to the country store and buy another. Well, there was this chicken snake (country name) laying there on the ground that must have been 6 ft long. I decided that I would catch it and take it to the barn to catch rats and mice and put my foot on it to hold it in place while I caught it behing the head. Needless to say I left too much of his neck sticking out and when I reached to catch him behind the head, he got me by the finger. I straightened up, shook the blood off my finger (it was like a briar scratch), inspected my finger, caught the snake and took it to the barn. I had no hard feelings toward the snake because it was my fault. Spiders now that is a whole different story. I guess it is because they are so small and easy to overlook. I have heard carpenters and brick masons talk about finding scorpions in brick brought in from Alabama for new houses. My dad told me once about finding a small one on our farm under a rock out in the field. I guess you never know what you might find.