Now the story I read said it was a maintance worker that was bitten while trying to remove the snake from an area that was not near the guest area
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-snake10x08jun10,0,955045.story
Rattler by hotel nips worker
Without leaving his hotel, Bryce Shearer got a thrill big enough to make Indiana Jones shudder.
"I hate snakes," said Shearer, 18, a guest at Sheraton Vistana Village on International Drive, where he saw a venomous, eastern diamondback rattler bite a resort maintenance worker Sunday.
"Like Indiana Jones says, 'Why did it have to be snakes?' "
Why? Because it's Florida, said Capt. Ernie Jillson of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Unit, which handles an estimated 1,700 calls a year across the state about snakes and other venomous critters.
"They're native to Florida," Jillson said. "They belong here."
The maintenance worker, whose name and age were not released, was nipped on an index finger by the 5-foot-long rattler and whisked to Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was treated with antivenin.
Although he was admitted overnight, the worker spoke with co-workers and friends by phone Monday and is "fine," said David Matheson, spokesman for Starwood Vacation Ownership, which operates the 95-acre, 600-room resort near the theme parks.
Matheson said the snake was discovered outside the resort's main gate, not near guest areas.
Shearer and two friends, Utku Kurtmer and Jimmy McEachern, saw resort employees attempting to remove the coiling snake and gathered nearby with cameras to snap pictures of the fanged rattler with diamond-shaped markings.
The 18-year-olds are vacationing after graduation from high school on Long Island, N.Y.
Shearer said the employee was bitten apparently as he tried to put the rattlesnake into a pillowcase.
Officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Orange County Fire Rescue and the resort were unsure what became of the snake, but Shearer thought authorities killed it.
A huge fan of the Indiana Jones movies, Shearer said he shares a dislike of the slithery reptiles with the fedora-wearing, bullwhip-cracking film hero.
The snake encounter was an unplanned adventure for the three friends, who visited Disney and Universal theme parks during their week-long stay. Shearer said the episode wouldn't dissuade them from a return visit to Orlando or the resort.
"But I definitely want to see where I'm stepping now," he said.
Local news reports suggest that Sheraton Vistana guests (and their kids!) should stay out of the underbrush after a guest suffered a rattlesnake bite there on Sunday:
