Has anyone else (besides me) every picked up a live rattlesnake by the tail before?

[Delos]

The do nothing is logical era

Several years ago the Ex-Chief Patrol Agent of Havre Sector (retired the year this happened) was hunting the opening day of bird season and tried to pick one up, he got bit, and died. I always thought it was a terribly ignoble way to die, and I never understood why in the heck anyone would try to pick up a live rattler? Me, I'll leave them alone if they leave me alone, otherwise they're getting shot, repeatedly.

Obviously the people around him had read the warnings not to suck out poison.

You must leave it to the overly educated doctors who are out on the golf course on weekends when people normally get bit.