Snakes

Jefferson Landing State Historic Site invites the public to attend Snakes Alive at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11

No thank you.

Snakes are showing up in areas people usually don't find them because of the flooding. Take for example the Copperhead found in Parkville.

With the weather warming up, you just might start seeing snakes slithering through yards, fields and creeks. I'm one of those people that hates snakes. I can handle spiders, I can handle mice, I can handle about anything else, but I can't handle snakes. The good news is, very few of the snakes native to Missouri are venomous.

'Snakes on a Plane' has met snakes, well, everywhere. Canada's Narcisse Snake Dens is home to "the largest gathering of snakes anywhere in the world" each spring.

By this point, it should be fairly obvious that getting distracted by a cell phone can be extremely hazardous to your health. And yet, a teen girl in California actually fell into a pit of rattlesnakes while searching for a signal in the desert. Need further proof? We didn't think so.