killed a bull snake on our front porch with a garden hoe summer after 2nd grade, it was all coiled up near the front door and wouldn't leave apparently. Mom had me jump out the living room window so I could sneak up on it, she says I wouldn't do it without an "Indiana Jones" hat and a whip, so she gave me an old hat and coiled some string like a rope over my shoulder. I don't even remember it, but she has a polaroid of me approaching the snake with the hoe and a fedora on.