when in 8th grade i went with this 6th grader named jefforey we went into the woods lookn for snakes (first time on realy lookn for snakes tall grasss and all) and we came across this powerline connected to a tree and we went to go see it....the i looked down right before i was going to walk over this rope...and i noticed "wow this rope has a nice....pattern.....holy $hIT!" i couldnt see the head or the tail and it looked like a rattle snake...when i said $hIT!! apperently it was the magic word to bring your friend back and when he has walking over to me a head (as well as 2 extra feet of snake came out of the grass) and we waited for it to start moving to look at the tail to see if it was a rattle snake. it wasnt so our attitude changed from catious to GRAB IT!!! it started sprinleriring like it was pulln a jessie ownes trick on us and went 3ft up a tree showing teeth and everything (aperantly my memory is fuzzy cuz it had a bluish white mouth (like a moccasin)(which i knew it wasnt one of)and front fangs (like few/no non venomous snake in our area)) then it went down under the tree into a hole...i convinced my friend to stickhis glove sheethed hand down the hole....he said it was DEEP. so i tried ...i couldnt feel the bottom. so after waiting we went walking further and found an axe, YES AN AXE!!!! now what do you suppose two naive kids who want to catch a snake under a tree would do with that axe...we tried guttn down the tree but it was a blunt axe and it stopped goin through the tree when it was a fith of the way through it...if youv ever used a blunt axe repeatedly for a good half hour (a heavy heavy axe for that matter) knew exasctly how we fealt...imagin swinging a golfclub you know that little shockwave you get well multiply it by about 300 and thats what we did for half an hour then we had to give up and go home. (with my new axe i was going to be the proud owner of...NOT!!!!! apperently mom and dad were the new owners of a blunt axe.) i believe it was a texas ratsnake itwas 4-6 ft. long. thats one of my stories