If you're crazy enough to get this close to a pile of rattlesnakes and one of them gets angry and drags your camera into the pit, it belongs to them and you should just run.

Michael J. Delaney is extra crazy though, and after his camera was pulled into this writhing den of pure nightmare fuel in Montana, he grabbed a hockey stick and fished it out. According to Delaney's Facebook page, he had to clean venom off the thing after he got it back.

Just got some great rattlesnake footage, the GoPro was knocked off the stick from a snake striking it and landed in a...

Posted by Michael J Delaney on Friday, October 9, 2015

I know GoPros are expensive, but if mine goes into a tangle of rattlers, I'm declaring "NOPE!" and walking away.

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