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I've personally caught many snakes over the years:

Garter snakes, little brown snakes that don't bite but poop this smelly junk on you when you hold them, little grass snakes (the bright green ones), and a black racer once which I do not recommend anybody try lol

I saw what I think was a milk snake before too, it was curled up under a piece of metal in a cemetery a couple towns over from where I live maybe 2 years ago. Since I wasn't sure it was a milk snake I didn't try to grab it, as it had a brown, orange and black checked pattern and I'd never seen one in Massachusetts in all the years I've caught snakes (which goes back to the mid-80s). My luck it would've been some weird poisonous pet somebody got sick of and let go. If you aren't 100% sure it's non-venomous don't touch it.

But that black racer... it was in New Hampshire and under a cast iron tub in the middle of a field. My buddy and I lifted it up and saw a pretty big black snake coiled up and immediately knew it wasn't a garter (no yellow stripe on the back) but decided to catch it anyway. After putting it in a plastic container it turned really super-aggressive and was striking out at us, hitting the side of the container wall every time. At this point we were scared to let the thing out lol. Eventually we did and it took off into the woods. This snake was maybe 3 feet long at most, definitely the most dangerous snake I've ever held.

Here's a black racer, this guy says they're harmless but I don't know the one we caught tried to kill us a bunch lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THPfSRto9KM

And here's what that milk snake looked like, only the one I saw was a little brighter in color (probably molted recently or something)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEsEAKyB2s