At our work we often get rattle snakes, anywhere from little babies to some 5+ feet in length. Before I started working there, they were telling me stories of when they found one in our office supply closet. One of our shop guys found a small rattle snake, thinking it was a gopher snake, he picked it up and it bit him... he then proceeded to chase people around the shop with it. Needless to say, he no longer works there.