All those pictures show the best snake....dead snake = good snake. A good friend was posted in El Paso, was an MP, his story was they were making rounds in a jeep, at night, and the driver slammed on the brakes cause he was trying to avoid the limb stretched across the road. Got stopped, turned around & shined the headlights back where they were, just in time to watch the "limb" slither off the road, it was a rattler that had been warming itself on the warm asphalt. He swears it's the truth!