I'm sorry but I gotta disagree with this. I'm not a tree hugger, I hunt and I fish. But I gotta ask the question, "why would you kill a anything unless it was in immediate danger of hurting someone"? You're in your truck the snake is in the road, what's the problem??? I don't get it? And I cannot stand snakes, I'm scared crapless of them. I see black snakes in my yard everytime I cut my grass but I don't kill them cause I can. I could run right over them, but hey they're not hurting me, why should I hurt/kill them? If you don't eat it you shouldn't kill it, bottomline in my book.