Tell you what fella's, I had the crap scared out of me in Vietnam in 69 by a Python. My back yard has several huge scyamore trees and to this day when I pick up fallen branches the hair stands up on the back of my neck because of their cammy markings.
I never was startled by snakes as a kid but they sure do now. When I go mushroom hunting (which is this time of the year) if I see a snake i just quit hunting mushrooms and go to the tavern because from that time on all I look for is snakes.
I have a friend that was mowing my yard for me when I was on vacation several years back. He goes nuts when he sees snakes. When we came home we found one flower bed full of rocks and sticks and next to that the bed was mowed off and the plastic snake the wife had put in there chopped into a lot of pieces and blow all over the grass. We still tease him about it........... Tom