Rattlesnakes are good, actually.
I dunno about you, but I'm clumsy and unobservant on the best of days. I've run into many snakes in the wild, had a copperhead strike my boots once. Never been hit by a rattler. Why? Been warned off, simple as that. Trundling my dumb ass through the tall grass and get the chk-chk-chchchchchchchcch and stop. Find the snake, go around the snake. No problem.
They're polite, even. What other snake comes with an alarm to let you know you that you're too close. Hear the noise? Oh, sorry about that noodle friend. I'll go around this other way.
