Yes, that wouldn't have ended well...
Years back when I often relocated rattlesnakes in the desert where I lived att, one of the ones I picked up was buzzing under a dripping outdoor hose faucet, which the home-owner heard & mistakenly thought that the water had been left on...
Happily they called me instead of trying to turn it off, it was a "Mojave green", not the biggest rattlesnakes around there but definitely had the most venom-punch.