We went back and got a couple
shovels and chopped them up.
Posted on 09/26/2014 9:00:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
JARRATT, Va. — A man on his way from New Hampshire to Florida got quite a scare driving down Interstate 95 in Virginia on Friday morning when a snake slithered out from the dashboard of his U-Haul truck. The driver and his passenger pulled off I-95, entered the town of Jarratt, parked the U-Haul at a car dealership and asked for help.
“I was sitting at my desk,” Owen Ford employee Jason Lowery said. “A traveler came in and hollered at one of the service technicians ‘I got a snake coming out from behind the dashboard.'” When Lowery jumped up to help, he said the other man in the U-Haul was holding half of the snake in his hands.
“He was holding it to keep it from going back up in the dashboard,” Lowery said. “He was trying to pull him out, but he wasn’t coming out.”
Unable to set the snake free, the travelers and workers called Critter Control to take care of the stowaway snake.
“When I got here, they left it all to me,” Critter Control of Virginia Beach operator Lucky Streich said.”We’ve had snake calls, but not so much with someone pulling off the highway with a snake under their dash.”
Streich said after getting advice from the home office in Michigan, he used ice to help dislodge the stuck snake.
“Inched him out with ice and cooled him down,” he said. “He just needs some love and care now.”
The five-foot-long snake was handed over to animal control.
Streich said he believed a previous driver lost the snake in the truck and never reported it missing.
He said the travelers seemed relieved to get back on the road — snake free.
“We looked under the dash and did not see any more snakes,” Streich said.
What kind of snake is that?
It’s a common Boa Constrictor.
Once *again*, somebody who is ~not~ me finds a nice, free snake!
WTH am I doing wrong??
You have annoyed Ceiling Cat.
So obamma and holder were mating in the truck under the dash...might wantvto v fheck for jihadi babies..
“I have had it with these %^#! snakes on this &*#! U-Haul!”
LoL. I was once driving through the desert in West Texas and I stopped to take a picture of a giant rattlesnake stretched out across the road. When I got out to take the take the picture, the snake made a beeline for the shade of my car and got up inside. So, I’m standing there in the middle of the road like an idiot waiting for the snake to get out...
Thank God no one found me there, that would have been embarrassing.
“What kind of snake is that?”
I don’t know, it’s not my picture. Probably something harmless, but to me they’re all Black Mambas.
Is that a snake in your dash? Or are U-Hauling?
“Everything You Know Is Wrong”
I was driving on the freeway in the fast lane
With a rabid wolverine in my underwear
When suddenly a guy behind me in the back seat
Popped right up and cupped his hands across my eyes
I guessed, “Is it Uncle Frank or Cousin Louie?”
“Is it Bob or Joe or Walter?”
“Could it be Bill or Jim or Ed or Bernie or Steve?”
I probably would have kept on guessing
But about that time we crashed into the truck
-Weird Al Yankovic
album: “Bad Hair Day” (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
I am flabbergasted that someone calls animal control for a snake.
He had a hold of it. Just yank like heck. It’ll either come out in one piece or two.
Years ago my wife and i were going out of our lane on our bikes. Right in the middle of the lane down by the road was a roiling mas of unrecognizable origin. It was at least 100 snakes in a frenzy.
I had never seen anything like it before and neer since.
Needless to say, we had a hey day with those things.
If you need animal control for one snake, I guess we should have called the National Guard.
Do you know what kind of snakes they were? What did you do when you saw them?
“OK, sir, let’s see...”
“4 days rental”
“one hand truck”
“10 moving pads”
“6 cinch straps”
“15 large boxes”
“15 small boxes”
“2 rolls of packing tape”
“one snake”
“Your total comes to $328.47. Will that be cash, debit or credit card?”
I had a rental with millions of little spiders in the AC system near Yuma once. When I turned on the AC they came out of the vents and covered the dash, the steering wheel, and eventually my lap. It was like something out of a horror movie, just wave after wave of millions of them. I figured they were too small to bite, and had an important systems test I was heavily involved in, so I just drove to the nearest Walmart, got a can of bug killer and proceeded to treat the whole car and all the vents and drove on to the site on time. Some of my co-workers saw all the dead spiders, and the story has become something of a myth at work.
Dirty Harry lives in Virginia,doesn’t he?
Do you know what kind of snakes they were? What did you do when you saw them?
Just garter snakes. Some were HUGH and SERIES. We went back and got a couple shovels and chopped them up.
Cool skinks gif, Skink. ;-)
We went back and got a couple
shovels and chopped them up.
Sorry, but killing snakes is a theological issue. Snake killers - Herpophobes - are incapable of accepting their sinful state and continue to blame the snake.
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