The Septic Circuses Known As Rattlesnake "Roundups" Persist In OK, TX, But Are Fading Away Elsewhere

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1. It was '64 and I was on a Greyhound bus, going towards Waco. The Old Grey Dog stopped every few hours and you got new

neighbors. This time, the seat mate was in his 90's and telling me about old times in Waco. Then he gets to his childhood friend Bill, who was retired and a rattlesnake collector for Waco Museum? (As best as I can recall the story). Snakes were for venom milking.

"And ya see, Bill hadn't been to church in decades. Folks were telling me that Bill was getting a bit slow on the grab with the snakes. I saw Bill and told him, I hear you're getting a bit slow on the grab. Don't you think it's time to come back to church and get right with the Lord? Bill agreed and said he would meet me at church on Sunday.

Next Saturday, Bill went on a hunt. They said he grabbed the snake a bit too far behind the head. Bill didn't even make it to the hospital."

With that, the old man looked out the bus window and up at the sky, "Ya know, I always wondered how old Bill made out."


So that brings me to the question, don't any of these snake heroes get bit?