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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., April 11 (UPI) -- Robert Tyler, a 53-year-old welder from Merritt Island, Fla., says the rattlesnake he killed to protect his neighbors "was a huge, beautiful diamondback."
Florida Today reported Tyler came across the 6-foot-long rattlesnake Wednesday while driving along Captain's Row, a riverside community on the north side of the Merritt Island Causeway.
Tyler said the snake, not a protected or endangered species, was crawling past the home of a woman who owned several small kittens, Florida Today reported, and rather than call authorities, he decided to kill the rattler on his own.
"He could have gotten away just as easily as it was for me to capture him. ... By the time animal services got out there, it would have been gone," Tyler said.
"I walked up behind it and pinned its head down. Then I took a hand knife I got from my father and cut its head off," Tyler said, the newspaper reported.
Friends now call Tyler "snake hunter."
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