PP used to tell me "leave that snake alone it is as afraid of you as you are it."My answer was "One of us has to go and it is not going to be me". I always won and never killed the first one. When I got finished running over their holes in my ground with my lawn mower they were happy to move on to some saner place. The last one I saw I hit with a powerful spray from my hose and it was happy to leave also. lol. Fun on the corner. shirleyt