[MtnClimber]

I forgot that I did catch an eastern diamondback rattlesnake once. I was only about 10 yo. I had it in a large jar with a lid. You would not believe the ruckus that that caused with the adults! I had it for a few days before TSHTF.

[Rockingham]

Ahh, clearly you are a fellow Florida Man. I too once caught and kept a rattlesnake for a day as a prank of sorts. It was when I had a regular, paying job that required me often to cut brush with a machete, walk through swamp water, or swim a drainage canal. Few pasty-faced Yankees who brag of snow could ever do that.

[Rockingham]

You may have me beat as to Florida Man qualifications. The best that I can offer in response to your superior list is playing in orange groves as a kid — with play being defined as throwing oranges at each other, picking and eating oranges while sitting in a tree, and hunting and killing grove rats with pellet guns, golf clubs, and garden tools. And you had a raccoon as a pet, or at least had a friend in the neighborhood who did.