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Video captures snake hitching ride on vehicle down I-26
FoxCarolina ^ | July 6, 2017 | Rachel Cumberbatch

Posted on 07/09/2017 2:46:00 AM PDT by buckalfa

Try to imagine this: You're making your way down the interstate when all of a sudden, you notice a huge snake dangling right by your driver's side window.

For Becky Reeves Castro of Spartanburg, this was no imaginary tale. This was real life.

Reeves said she, her boyfriend and her mother-in-law were all traveling from Roebuck in a truck down I-26 on Thursday when it happened.

She shared footage of the terrifying incident with us, and you've been warned - the commentary is GOLD.

Becky and the other passengers inside the truck can be heard discussing the incident in real time on the video.

"I'm telling you I'm ready to jump out of here!" said one passenger.

Reeves's boyfriend can be heard saying he kept seeing a shadow before the snake appeared. Some surprise he was in for when the reptile made his big debut!

Reeves, on the other hand, got some giggles out of the incident.

"About that time, the big black snake came across the corner, and he was busy trying to figure out how to get in. Of course everyone panicked!" said Reeves."Everyone grabbed their cell phones. I was laughing because I was raised on a farm and I was used to black snakes."

Luckily, the snake made it out of this fiasco alive. Becky and her accomplices dropped the snake off at another location before journeying on to their destination.


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: snake; snakes
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Why does it seem that these unusual occurrences happen in South Carolina? Then again, the video at the link shows the trucks occupants to be somewhat calm which might lead one to think the film was staged.
1 posted on 07/09/2017 2:46:00 AM PDT by buckalfa
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Could be... on the other hand at least one of them was raised on a farm so it would be abnormal if she wasn’t calm about it.


2 posted on 07/09/2017 2:54:39 AM PDT by piasa
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To: buckalfa
Why does it seem that these unusual occurrences happen in South Carolina?


Actually, we are pretty calm compared with Georgia: Re: Devil Went Down to Georgia, Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Hell Broke Loose in Georgia, etc.
3 posted on 07/09/2017 3:02:24 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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To: buckalfa

On the other hand, it does look like an unlikely place for a snake to be clinging to- there’s not much to hide in or curl around for traction on the upper corner of a truck windshield. Snake’s more likely to curl up around an axle in the wheel well.

How is it not getting blown off? Looks almost like the very end of its tail was shut in the door to hold it fast.


4 posted on 07/09/2017 3:04:48 AM PDT by piasa
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To: buckalfa

James Carville moving about the country?


5 posted on 07/09/2017 3:12:21 AM PDT by blackdog
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I had to grab a three foot black snake once to remove it from my lady boss’s office. I was surprised by two things: 1.) I actually grabbed it and 2.) the strength of the snake as it coiled around my forearm. It took a farm girl to get it off.


6 posted on 07/09/2017 3:14:00 AM PDT by buckalfa (Slip sliding away towards senility.)
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"James Carville moving about the country?"

👍

7 posted on 07/09/2017 3:17:50 AM PDT by buckalfa (Slip sliding away towards senility.)
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Reeves said she, her boyfriend and her mother-in-law

Where was her husband....

8 posted on 07/09/2017 3:27:40 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: buckalfa

So Cool!


9 posted on 07/09/2017 3:47:43 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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All they have to do is ride down I-95 and in no time at all the pot holes will bump him off. Trouble is the potholes are so big he could hide in one of them....


10 posted on 07/09/2017 3:52:01 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free because of the brave.MAGA!!)
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To: buckalfa

He was just there to tell them to
“quit sssssssssssssssssspeeding”.


11 posted on 07/09/2017 4:05:51 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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How many snakes on a Roebuck truck if a snake snuck on and got stuck


12 posted on 07/09/2017 4:09:05 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Hitchin' a Ride


13 posted on 07/09/2017 4:10:43 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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dat snake, he be cool.


14 posted on 07/09/2017 5:12:52 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: buckalfa
Take me in oh tender woman.....
15 posted on 07/09/2017 5:37:24 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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James Carville moving about the country?

It's a rat snake so I concur...

16 posted on 07/09/2017 5:50:06 AM PDT by Geronimo (God Bless America and President Donald J. Trump...)
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“Reeves said she, her boyfriend and her mother-in-law were all traveling...”

I’m old enough to remember when that particular combination of persons would have been the story. If true, she’s traveling with her boyfriend and her husband’s mother.


17 posted on 07/09/2017 6:17:11 AM PDT by Lucas McCain (Liberalism is the willful embrace of abject stupidity.)
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To: buckalfa

In North Carolina this happens with lizards all the time. I’ll be driving down the road and they run across the windshield. The wind catches them and they go flying.


18 posted on 07/09/2017 6:55:49 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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I grew up on a farm and we used an outhouse. My friend Joe was visiting and I heard him scream as he ran out of the outhouse with his pants around his ankles... There was a big blacksnake coiled up beside the seat!!!

While blacksnakes bite, they don’t hurt when they do. You just need to pull their teeth out afterwards like briers sticking in your hand.


19 posted on 07/09/2017 6:59:23 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: buckalfa
This is why dad said *never, ever pick up hitch hikers*.


20 posted on 07/09/2017 8:16:02 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder” - The LSN didn’t make Trump, so they can’t break T)
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