Well, seems to me this occurence was sad, cause the cop was just trying to help those people and ended up shooting them (poor decision making, even if the snake was venemous, which he beleived it to be). Now, I may be from a country devoid of snakes, but it seems to me to be an easy mistake to make, not knowing that venomous snakes aren't tree climbers, but the guy should have been more careful. Snakes often don't attack until something moves, so he could have gotten closer or circled around for a better shot......
So, yeah, I don't think the guy was dumb, just a little too trigger-happy, especially for being the bad shot he was. I don't think it had much to do with irrational fear, though a deep-seated fear of snakes is ingrained into humanity from since before it existed, the guy just shot too soon and too poorly.
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