...it wasn't the snake itself that gave me chills, but the guy being stupid enough to think he could just "rearrange" a sleeping venomous snake as if it was a pile of unfolded laundry. Talk about a candidate for the Darwin award! 
If he didn't know the snake was venomous, that was still extremely poor judgment. Every school child knows some snakes are venomous. What kind of idiot does not know that? And for that matter, what kind of idiot is stupid enough to think it's a good idea to disturb ANY sleeping wild animal?
Point being, it was that man's idiotically risky behavior that freaked me out. Needlessly risky behavior freaks me out in general. For example, I got freaked out at Yellowstone when I saw a couple of teenaged boys repeatedly getting off the boardwalk around one of ths geothermal features to take pics of each other, despite all the warning signs about how the ground was dangerously thin in places, and you wouldn't know you'd stepped on a weak spot until you were plunged into the scaldingly hot water that was just beneath the surface. People can and have died doing that, which is why the boardwalks are there. (Unfortunately, I was not able to find a ranger to report them to, grrr!)
Another example is people who fall off canyon rims or mountaintops while doing risky poses or even acrobatics for the sake of getting an impressive photo or video to post online. Seeing people unnecessarily do dangerously risky things just because they can really bothers me. I don't want to be forced to watch someone get bitten by a timber rattler or meet some other grisly fate that they could have easily avoided with a little common sense. I would be the first one to call or run for help in such a situation, but I would also resent being needlessly put in the position of having to do that!
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