Pastor Arrested for Handling Trouser Snakes

Well, not so much "trouser snakes" as "real snakes." Pastor Greg Coots (his real name) was arrested recently for buying, selling, and possessing illegal reptiles. Coots runs the Full Gospel Tabernacle church in Middlesboro, Kentucky, where true believers handle dangerous snakes because they believe God will protect them from the deadly poison in their bites. But God apparently assumes you have enough common sense not to handle rattlesnakes and cobras, because it was at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in 1995, that a woman died from snake bites. Her husband, unconvinced that handling snakes might not be the best way to test your faith, continued to attend the church until he also died from snake bites, just a few months later. Read more reasons to never visit Kentucky here.