Posted on 03/21/2017 6:39:03 PM PDT by dayglored
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Anna McConnaughy was flying to Alaska's largest city when the announcement came over the intercom: a passenger on a previous flight had brought a pet snake on board.
The passenger had gotten off the plane. The snake had not.
"The pilot came, and said, 'Guys, we have some loose snake on the plane, but we don't know where it is,'" McConnaughy said Tuesday.
Unlike the movie "Snakes On A Plane," this one wasn't venomous. Mostly, it was sleepy.
A little boy, one of seven passengers on the Ravn Alaska commuter flight Sunday from the Alaska village of Aniak to Anchorage, was climbing on his seat when he spotted the slumbering snake. It was lying partially covered by a duffel bag near the back of the plane.
"He said, 'Oh, Mom, look at this. What's that?'" McConnaughy said. "That's how we figured out there was a snake sleeping in the corner."
There was no panic. McConnaughy said. Mostly people wanted to see the snake.
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I could handle a non poisonous snake.
One of those crazy big spiders from Australia is another story.
A non venomous snake can still give you a nasty bite.
Snakes didn’t used to bother me until I dug up a laundry basket-sized ball of them one winter.
GRRRR-ossed me out.
No snakes, No spiders, thankyouverymuch
But not worse than a Moose bite. Moose bites can be pretty nasty.
So can a non poisonous spider.
If I see anything that might be a spider bite..I slap Prid on it. The pics of Recluse bites freak me out.
Alaska Ping
Lying Ryan was in Alaska?
OMG....LOLOL..thanks for the laugh
I won’t ride on the same plane as Samuel L. Jackson. No, it’s not a black thing. Well, it might be if the snakes are black.
Cool snake! And what are the odds that out of the thousands of female flight attendants - they just happen to have one on this small little plane that isn’t afraid to handle a snake!
I’m not afraid of pet snakes if the owner is there and there is no reason to think it will hurt me - but even so I’m afraid to handle it for fear of dropping it.
But being Alaska - this gal might have been “Meh - it’s just a snake. Now that time I tried to shove that brown bear into a gunny sack.....”
How in the heck could they have missed that snake? Maybe they really didn’t give it much of an effort.
ALL spiders are venomous.
Non-venomous snakes can certainly bite, can draw blood if big enough. But generally, playing with a frisky cat is more painful and bloody.
How much experience do you have being bitten by snakes?
Black snakes are well worthy of their nickname "the farmer's friend".
A while back there was a story posted here on FR about a Florida woman who was going to pick up her kids at school but everyone was panicked because of a 7 foot alligator.
She went to her car, got some rope, jumped on the gator and tied him up. She just wanted to get the kids instead of waiting.
Not bitten personally but my dog sure yelped when a “harmless” oak snake struck him.
“...that isnt afraid to handle a snake!”
No, I’m not gonna, it’s too easy. I’m just replying to keep expectations low.
A moose bit my sister once.
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