Nebraska

FedEx driver kills rattlesnake balled at customer's front door, video shows

The driver apologized to the customer, saying "Sorry about the blood"

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A woman in Nebraska is calling for one FedEx driver to be named employee of the year after he took care of a rattlesnake that had balled up right outside her front door.

Ring security video captured the snake slither across the home's front steps and nestle itself in a corner at the front of the house.

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A few minutes later, Matt Govier arrived to deliver a package. He began to hear rattling from the venomous snake nearby.

Govier first hopped onto the front steps, and called out to the snake. He then grabbed a rake and a shovel from the house and somehow got the snake to wrap around the rake.

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Govier then carried the snake over to the front lawn, where he killed it.

“I hope you didn’t have a pet rattlesnake at your front door because I killed him. Sorry about the blood," Govier wrote in his text message to the customer, Christine Jones.

Jones was thrilled that Govier took care of the deadly reptile, saying in a Facebook post that he should be named FedEx's employee of the year.

Environmentalists were in a known nesting area when they stumbled upon the two-headed rattlesnake.
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