Hmm, the story is told of my family having a picnic many years ago. One of my uncles, then maybe 3 or 4, was discovered playing with a rattlesnake and knocking it with a small branch. The snake was rattling like crazy and totally apoplectic and somewhat stunned because it couldn’t believe the kid was doing that. Folks rescued my uncle before he could get bit.
A friend told me the tale of her family enjoying a picnic in a field in Chandler, Arizona back in the 60s. Her little brother had some fun collecting “worms” in a paper bag.
The worms turned out to be tiny baby rattlesnakes.
No one was bitten.