Marine Snipers can disappear into the grass and you'll never find them. They just fade into the scenery and freeze.
Years ago, when I was working an evening patrol on a surveillance assignment, I got a call... Miss T had been bitten by a copperhead, four times in the bottom of her foot while working in the garden. She was on the way to the ER. She had stomped the snake into copperhead paste, but the ER was 45 minutes away. I was on the other side of the River... and had to turn in the County Car and switch to my truck, but still beat the Volunteer Squad to the ER by 5 minutes.
I swore I was going to get a T-Shirt that said: My wife is meaner than a snake and I can prove it...
... she was bitten by a copperhead four times... and the SNAKE died.
Her leg looked like an over inflated balloon and they kept her for a day or two, but no permanent damage. She was lucky. It was a baby, and contrary to old wives tales, their poison isn''t more deadly than adult copperheads.
Luckily for us the doc on duty raised snakes and knew all about them. Their poison isn't any more deadly, it's just that unlike an adult, they don't know how to dose their strikes, first strike, they empty the poison sack. Say they have enough poison for ten lethal strikes on mice. An adult would be able to kill ten mice. A baby would overkill ONE mouse, then not be able to kill any for several hours while his system regenerated more poison.
The doc's theory was that when Tina stepped on the baby, he lashed out and his first strike, was into the mulch, not her foot. The next four strikes were into her foot when he rolled over and identified his target, but she only got what was left in the fangs and the path from the sack to the fangs. This kept her from the tissue damage and huge swelling normally associated with multiple strikes.
Check out this picture... there is a copperhead hiding in there. I took it when I saw it moving. (Years ago.) I came across it this morning while changing my Wallpaper. Took me three or four minutes to find it again..... Sheesh, they are good at hiding.
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But don't ruin it right away for everyone. 
Stubborn ol' gal. 
