
Bob Popplewell, the owner of Bayou Bob’s Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch west of Fort Worth, was arrested for selling bottles of vodka containing dead baby rattlesnakes to East Asian immigrants. The charge was selling liquor without a license, since Texas has no law involving the selling of dead baby rattlesnakes without a license. This particular case got a lot of attention in the Texas media, and I’m not sure why, since most people would recognize rattlesnake-infused vodka as a common vending item at rattlesnake ranches, and the police paid no attention at all to the Lizard Grape Nehi that, in my opinion, has no place in a roadside reptile attraction.