My compassion goes to you. And it sounds like lots of people doing the best they could. But "running to see if it's a bomb just makes no sense." As a nurse in Florida, I had many patients with snake bites. (pigmy rattlers are common there) "Well," I'd say, "How'd you get bit by a snake?" "Well," they'd answer, "I seen this thing look like a pigmy rattler so I bent down and pick it up." Well, when I see something looks like a poisonous snake, I don'd run over to check it our. I move away from it. I've spent the majority of my life in the woods. I have never been bitten by a poisonous snake.