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I have read about this kind of thing happening as well, and it is definitely something to be careful of.
When I was just a little girl, and we had all gone camping at a small lake up in the mountains, there were snakes swimming in the water. We lived in north Idaho , and there are no venomous snakes there, so it wasn't dangerous. One of the relatives had his .22 rifle along and he shot a snake in the head and about blew the head off. the snake wiggled and trashed around in the water for almost an hour afterwards; so the body lived quite a while even with no head.
All of us kids had terrible nightmares about snakes that night; so that was the last time any snakes were shot on camping trips.
But it was definitely a learning experience for all of us kids, that "dead " snakes aren't always really dead.
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