Sunday Firesides: Get on Your Horse and Kick

There could hardly be a more horrifying way to die: when young Sean O'Brien waded into the Nueces River on horseback, he disrupted a nest of water moccasins, and found himself surrounded by a swarm of big, brown, worm-like snakes.

By the time his companions were able to pull Sean from the water, his body was covered in numerous fang marks, and he soon ex…