Rattlesnake Fighting

Would Michael Vick have had any legal problems if he were involved in a rattlesnake fighting organization? Bad Newz Snake Holes?

Over in Colorado, some successful gamblers plotted to kill the gambling operator who owed them money. It's hard to tell exactly what went down from the news story though, because it's so awfully written:

Christopher Steelman, 34, and Herbert Beck, 56, are accused of planning out the scheme to collect on a gambling debt. CBI agents said the alleged victim is the owner of Amateur Poker Tour in WheatRidge. Investigators seized documents and records from the business earlier this year. They say the men are involved in an illegal poker operation.

WheatRidge? Anyways, they don't talk about the dudes' plans with the rattlesnake. It does sound quite a bit like the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band, in which a step-father kills his step-daughters as they're about to get married to avoid paying dowry by secreting a swamp adder into their rooms. Another idea would be to piss the rattlesnake off and launch it into a bedroom or family room or something. Maybe murder by rattlesnake will make a comeback.