Snakes in your compost heap?

I grew up in an area that had a lot of adders. You hardly ever see them, though, as they are very shy and will move off when they feel the vibrations from your great clomping human feet!

Well,
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just keep in mind about snakes
a)some of them could be poisones
b)you can make chinese medicine of snake and alcohol
c)you can cook them
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Personally i don't care if wild life protected or not. I will take any wild life if it will destroy my property or make any potencial danger to me or my family. Proof me wrong.

I got bitten on my finger last year by a grass snake, it was my fault as i didnt see it and touched it, still scared the poop out off me got to say that ive never seen an adder in somerset, just grass snakes.
I remember when i was a child, i lived in cornwall, my aunt and uncle had an adder come through their ground floor bathroom window and curled up in their bath.