re: Is it illegal to throw a snake at someone?

A jogging path runs next to my house.

I clean out my pool and use the net to grab leaves and other debris that gets in there. This happens every now and then. I usually put the leaves and the debris onto the grass, but I chunk the snakes over the fence with the net.

One time I chunked a snake over the fence with the net and heard woman scream. I guess I tossed it a little farther than I expected, and it had made it all the way to that path and landed on or very near a person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I didn't see them. I'm assuming it was a woman by the scream.

I dropped the net, ran inside, locked the doors, closed the garage, and shut all the blinds. Nothing ever came of that. I wonder if she thinks it fell out of a tree or something.