She got what she deserved.

[conuly]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/23/us/texas-snake-fire

What sort of person would try to get rid of a snake by setting it on fire? If you have the time to douse it with gasoline first, you have time to call animal control or to shoo it out on your own, depending on how likely it is to be venomous.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Ah, bad luck - yeah, Utah has more rattlesnakes than most states, and the terrain is such that one is more likely to see them. I've only ever crossed the desert states by car, except that one night in the Badlands. I've seen lots of non-venomous snakes - we have quite an assortment of pretty, stripy little garter snakes around here, so my daughter grew up playing with them. There are rattlers in eastern Washington, but none West of the Cascade Range, so any snake one sees here is non-venomous.

When I first moved out here 25 years ago, I had a horrendous fear of spiders, but there are so many gigantic ones here that I kinda used up all my adrenaline coupons. When there are two or three huge spiders in the house every day, one just can't keep on freaking out about them - none of them are deadly, most aren't aggressive, they're just really big, really fast, and like to inhabit little old country houses, especially in Fall.