Yeah. You know there are a lot of snakes when you skip a rock across the river and it breaks one’s back against a rock on the far shore. A lot of turtles, too. I remember one big water snake sunning on a tree over the river.
A drunk guy got killed by a cottonmouth on a river in the Ozarks couple years ago.
It made the news b/c his family tried to blame it on external factors, whereas I believe he initially refused medical care.
Hold muh beer.