The saga continues! Snakes...On the pavement.

One would think that I have moved to the jungle with how many wildlife sightings there have been since I moved to Virginia. Never have I seen so many reptiles, fox, amphibians, spiders, etc. until I moved here. Before moving, I had seen a snake twice in my life up close and not in a zoo. Now I can say that I have been up close and personal with a COPPERHEAD. Nasty snake if it bites you. Below are the pics of this guy. I guess he crawled out from the pool area after dark (which is creepy considering I had O at the pool earlier that evening). I was out talking to some people and one of my neighbors walked over to warn us he had just run over a copperhead with his car by the pool. I, of course, grabbed the camera as I had never seen a poisonous snake before in person. Well, he was a beauty. Me and a few others gathered around as some grown men in the neighborhood made sure he was dead. As if the car that ran over it was not enough. The snake started to move after he had died. So another neighbor got his rubber mallot and beat it. Then another neighbor got his shovel and stabbed the snake a few times before putting it in a bucket to be thrown in the woods to be some other creature's dinner. I and a few others lamented at it having to be thrown away. We would have loved to have made a pair of shoes or handbag out of it's skin...Here he is! The copperhead that dared mess with the 'hood. He is dead at this point.
It's dead but had it had involuntarily moved itself to this position. It was kind of cool to still see it moving...
Dead snake in the bucket awaiting his fate in the woods...