article_snippet: Thousands of people gathered in a small Texas town this weekend to watch rattlesnakes get cleaned, skinned, milked and more - some visitors even left Thousands of people mark on the wall with bloody hand prints.
article_snippet: Attendees could even buy fried rattlesnake, which apparently takes like chicken.
article_snippet: Before the snakes are cooked, however, Attendees are passed through an assembly line, where Attendees are killed, decapitated, then cleaned and skinned as Attendees hang from a wire.
article_snippet: A handler shows off a rattlesnakes fangs, which are connected by venom ducts to poison glands in the snake's jaw.
article_snippet: When fangs are not in use, fangs fold against the snake's palate .
article_snippet: A crowed watches a handler behead rattlesnakes before fangs are skinned. 
article_snippet: A bolt is fired into the snake's head before A bolt is chopped off .
article_snippet: Onlookers help clean and skin the reptiles if Onlookers wanted .
article_snippet: the rattlesnakes are suspended in the air as handlers clean and skin the reptiles.
article_snippet: Crowds gather as the handlers approach the snakes barehanded .
article_snippet: Hand prints made from snake blood decorate the wall.
article_snippet: Those onlookers brave enough to help skin a snake can put Those onlookers hand on the wall for all to see .
article_snippet: The venom from the snakes is sold to an Alabama pharmaceutical company .
highlights_snippet: Attendees could help skin and clean the rattlesnakes and put Attendees blood-covered hand prints on the wall .
  