David Sager told the crowd that he once saw a rattlesnake get in a fight with a roadrunner. The bird ran back and forth across the yard, exhausting the snake, who eventually curled up in defeat. The roadrunner strutted. Mr Sager, intrigued, walked over and touched the weary rattler. There was no reaction. "The roadrunner had so worn down and cowed him that all he wanted to do was just hide," he said.rnThe point, said Mr Sager, was that rattlesnakes should be respected but not feared. He was running a safety demonstration during the Sweetwater Jaycees World's Largest Rattlesnake Round-Up. There was a large rattlesnake on the table, flicking its black tongue and rattling furiously, and several dozen more coiled on the floor of the pit.
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