What's your best snake story?

I work for a land surveying/engineering firm owned by my dad. We get guys that come through and work for us that are deathly afraid of snakes and yet work outdoors surveying for a living. Plus a few of my own encounters with them while out on a job. So I've got quite a few good snake stories. Snakes don't bother me, and I'll let a king snake or grass snake live but kill the others. I know guys, and guys that work for us, that believe the only good snake is a dead snake. Black or green, doesn't matter they all deserve to die.

Anyway the best story i got comes from a guy who started working for us a few years back when he came over from another firm dad bought out. Lets call him Fred. Back when Fred worked at that old firm, he was out on a job that was heavily wooded. It was him, another guy(let's call him Joe), and the owner of the company. They were walking through some dense underbrush to get to a property coner going single file, with the owner leading, then Joe, then Fred at the rear. They came to some low hanging limbs where they were gonna have to duck under to pass underneath. Well the owner went underneath first, then Joe, then Fred was about to go under when he saw a little grass snake hanging from one of the low hanging limbs. Well Fred knew that Joe was deathly afraid of snakes. So he picked up the grass snake and went on under the limbs. He snuck up behind Joe and slipped the grass snake onto his shoulders. Well Joe was wearing a button up shirt tucked in and a surveying vest. The snake proceeded to slither down the back of his shirt. Fred said it took Joe a few seconds to realize something was amiss. But when he realized something was, he came unglued. Started clawing at his shirt and vest. Grabbed his shirt and ripped it off, tearing all the buttons off. Threw the shirt and vest to the ground and ran off screaming hell bent towards their truck. Didn't pay any mind to the underbrush, just went straight threw. Well Fred is dying laughing and the owner don't know what's going on. Fred finally tells the owner what he did and the owner said he thought Joe had been possessed. So they head back towards the truck and find Joe inside with the doors locked. When Joe sees them he rolls the window down a inch and starts cussing Fred. All the while refusing to get out of the truck and the owner telling Fred that Joe is gonna be useless to work with the rest of the day.

What ya got?