A Texas man allegedly bit the tail off a rattlesnake and released it into his neighbor’s RV after the two got into a heated argument.

Ryan Felton Sauter and his neighbor had an argument. Later, Sauter found a rattlesnake somewhere in Caldwell County and allegedly bit its tail off.

Keith Monroe claimed he saw the suspect coming out of his RV and asked him why he was there. Sauter allegedly responded, “You’ll see why.”

Monroe said he went inside the RV and found the injured snake – about three feet long – curled up in the RV’s corner. He said he eventually killed the snake with a machete.

Sauter was reportedly questioned by detectives and then charged with deadly conduct and criminal trespass of a habitation, the report said. It is not clear what the two were arguing about, but Monroe told the paper the two have had a long-running dispute.

Rattlesnakes are born in the summer, particularly in July and August.

Last month, a South Texas man almost died after he was bitten by the head of a rattlesnake he’d just decapitated.

The incident happened as Milo and Jennifer Sutcliffe were doing yard work at their home near Lake Corpus Christi. Jennifer Sutcliffe said her husband found a 4-foot rattlesnake and hacked off its head with a shovel. As he bent down to pick up the remains, he was bitten by the severed head.

Sutcliffe said she called 911 and began driving her husband the 45 miles to a Corpus Christi hospital. He began having seizures, losing his vision and bleeding internally and was airlifted the rest of the way.

Sutcliffe said her husband needed 26 doses of antivenom, whereas a snakebite patient normally gets two to four.