[Hugh R]

I've heard the anti-venon can cost $100K at the hospital. I kicked one in my house about ten years ago. I was coming in from the spa a little tipsy and kicked it in the dark. I heard the rattle and thought WTF! My MIL who has since passed used to keep her door open for her rat dog. I told her not to, but she did anyway. So the snake, her and her rat dog were in the room at the same time. More or less naked, I put on my cowboy boots and went after it with a flat blade shovel and proceeded to grind its head off on my brand new $25,000 hardwood floors.

Outside, I now use a 12 ga.