Snake left behind on flight in Alaska (The snake is okay now)

Fox News Travel ^ | Mar 21, 2017 | AssPress

[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.

[Salamander]

:(

[Salamander]

I hope you jest.

Beeps are small, frightened, feeble pet rocks on their very worst day.

[PLMerite]

“Having personally been bitten by Eastern and California King snakes, Corn snakes, Ball Pythons, Gopher snakes, Black Racers...”

You are either doing something fundamentally wrong, or you are the un-luckiest SOB...

[Salamander]

Google “Boa morphs”.

There are lots of different color/pattern varieties.

To be totally mind-blown, visit this page to see the apparently infinite [5273, on this day] genetic combos made by the lowly Ball Python.

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/?

[dayglored]

Jake is a beauty! He should have his own FR ping list... Say, is there a Snake ping list? I mean, there’s a Kitty ping list, and a Doggie ping list... There’s probably a Horsie ping list... Why not a Snake ping list?

[Salamander]

Gonna take a wild guess and say he’s a keeper of snakes.

[rlmorel]

We had a beautiful cat that got systemic toxoplasmosis which I think is pretty rare, separate from simply carrying it. Our vet couldn't do anything and suggested we take him to Tufts Veterinarian, where eventually opened him up and did exploratory surgery trying to figure out what was wrong with no success. They discovered by accident what it was when they were examining his eyes, a student had noticed something.

When they looked closer, they could see the tracks of the organisms burrowing and making tracks in his retinas.

He was there for a week, and when we were visiting, one of the professors would come in with a few students to have them look at the retinas of our cat so they could see first hand what it looked like, since it is relatively rare. He did get better, and it wasn't as expensive as we thought to have him diagnosed and treated. He was such a good cat, I did miss him when he finally left us. This is a picture of him guarding my car from Massachusetts liberal vandals:

[Salamander]

I don’t think there is.

Usually, ‘snake threads’ consist of “OMG I HATE THOSE @%!&!^*@!!!! THINGS! KILL THEM ALL!!!” posts.

Now imagine if people said that about cats, for instance.

So no, there’s probably no snake ping list, despite the number of FReepers who quietly love and keep snakes.

[Salamander]

OMG that is a horror story!!!

Glad he pulled through.

...and you have *the* creepiest license plate, ever.

:D

[rlmorel]

LOL, not my plate! (can’t just throw it out on the Internet, could I?)

[rlmorel]

I’ve seen that talk about cats here on FR, but what are you going to do? A lot of people talk a lot.

Personally, I don’t care for snakes in general as pets, but I did have a garter snake and a rat snake when I was a kid and I do find snakes interesting.

Now spiders, that is something else.

I can deal with all kinds of bugs. I was a kid in the Philippines, I tried to keep just about every insect there was as some kind of pet, big Rhinocerous beetles, Tiger Beetles, Ox Beetles, I even had a nest of carnivorous fire ants in front of my house I came to regard as my own (they cleaned the mollusk remnants out of seashells I caught...clean as a whistle) I had giant praying mantises and cicadas in Japan when I lived there.

But not spiders.

I had an incident when I was about six that completely bugged me out. I was trying to crawl though a drainage pipe that ran under a road near my house. The pipe got narrower as I went, and I got to a point I couldn’t go forward any more, so I looked back to see how to back up, and there were cobwebs all stuck to my jacket, an in those cobwebs, a big daddy longlegs.

Now, we all know the daddy longlegs is about the most benign, harmless spider there is, and it isn’t even really a spider.

But to a six year old kid, a daddy longlegs is about the scariest thing there is. Well, I when berserk, began screaming and bashing myself all over the inside of that pipe, and my brother crawled in and grabbed me by the feet and pulled me out.

I ran up the street, jumping in the air, pirouetting around, screaming and slapping my head and shoulders trying to get the thing off. But every time I looked, it was still there.

We are now getting to be old guys, and my brother still remembers it like it was yesterday, as I do too! I kill spiders with prejudice if they are in my home. Outside, I find them interesting and I look at them, but...in the house, it is a bug hunt.

[dayglored]

> So no, there’s probably no snake ping list, despite the number of FReepers who quietly love and keep snakes.

Funny... I tend to be a Unix/Linux head, but I've actually owned, worked and played on, and programmed Windows computers more than any other over the years. Since I joined FR in 2005 I was astonished that no one had started a Windows ping list. There was a Tech Ping list (ShadowAce) that was oriented more towards Linux and open source, and the Apple/Mac list of Swordmaker's. But no Windows list. It puzzled me...

After 10 years of puzzling, I decided well, wtf not? And I started the Windows Ping List. It's been a treat, even though most of the comments are negative, and mostly from Windows users themselves. But it's held on and grown for going on two years now.

So maybe a Snake Ping List, or perhaps a Reptile Ping List, could be done, if there are in fact enough FReepers who would be interested.

Hell, I'd get on it, even though I don't keep snakes in the house, at least not on purpose. Plenty in the field. Just sayin'. :-)

[PLMerite]

“Gonna take a wild guess and say he’s a keeper of snakes.”

I think that might fall under my “fundamentally wrong” clause. :)

[Salamander]

*whew*

Thought maybe you were the Internet Anti-Christ, maybe.

:D

[Salamander]

Well, that *was* pretty traumatic.

[I make pets out of the spiders who hunt on my windowsills]

:D

[PLMerite]

Anyway, this is a woman who knows how to handle a snake:

[Salamander]

I nominate you to start it...and I’ll be there, arguing with people who will no doubt come on the threads and scream KILL ‘EM ALL!!!

:D

[Salamander]

I prefer to think of myself as Mother Of Serpents, personally.

:)

[Salamander]

Best. Dance. Ever.

[PLMerite]

“I prefer to think of myself as Mother Of Serpents, personally.”

Well, I guess that’s better than “Lord of the Flies.” :)