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Customer rattled after snake falls from Mexican restaurant ceiling, into margarita during date night
NY Post ^ | 04/26/2026 | Chris Harris

Posted on 04/26/2025 2:38:07 PM PDT by DFG

This margarita came with a twisssst.

A snake dropped out of the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant and landed in a woman’s margarita, leaving her rattled.

Carletta Andrews said she’d just finished dinner on April 16 with her husband at Patron Mexican Restaurant and Cantina in Sandston, Virginia, when she felt something hit her forehead, according to 8News.

“I looked at my husband like what was that,” Andrews explained, adding she’s “scarred” for life. “When I turned around, I saw the snake in my margarita.”

Andrews said the snake — a baby of indeterminate species — started curling itself around her drink’s straw.

“I kept saying please don’t let it go in my purse,” she said. “I left shaking, I was traumatized.” She has not said if she plans to sue.

Restaurant workers rushed in to try to remove the snake with a stick. But another patron grabbed the snake and release it to the wild.

Andrews said the restaurant offered to move her to a booth, but she just wanted to go home.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: snake
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To: DugwayDuke

We have blue racers amongst the many here in TX.


21 posted on 04/26/2025 3:02:15 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: DFG

So… I guess it was really a… “Rattle” snake… Since she’s rattled


22 posted on 04/26/2025 3:02:37 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: DFG

Was she having a margarita with MS-13?


23 posted on 04/26/2025 3:02:57 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: DFG

They thought she ordered the premium version that comes with a live worm.


24 posted on 04/26/2025 3:03:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: DFG

We used to have that problem with crows with our basement windows. They never broke the glass, fortunately, we did have to block the windows so the birds did not see their reflections.


25 posted on 04/26/2025 3:04:21 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: goodnesswins

My adopted hometown is Langtry, Texas. Lived there during Operation Wetback in early 50’s.

On a visit to the Texas Highway Rest Stop and Judge Roy Bean Museum, several years ago, my wife asked the guy in charge if tourists ever came in from their cactus garden pathway to tell them about seeing a poisonous snake there. He said, “Oh, yes. Especially the tourists from New York and New Jersey. They always ask, ‘You’re not going to kill it, are you?’ And we reply, No, Ma’am, were going to relocate it. When the tourists leave we go kill it with a shovel, and relocate it to the desert.” My kinda guy.


26 posted on 04/26/2025 3:04:34 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: metmom

Crap!

WRONG THREAD.

Sorry about that.


27 posted on 04/26/2025 3:05:20 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: DFG

Well, I guess it would be a good test of character to see how the other person reacts to unexpected, somewhat traumatic situations.


28 posted on 04/26/2025 3:06:54 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: DFG
Restaurant workers rushed in to try to remove the snake with a stick. But another patron grabbed the snake and release it to the wild.

STUPID!

It could be an invasive species.

29 posted on 04/26/2025 3:08:44 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: waterhill

Yeah, it would discourage me from eating there again.


30 posted on 04/26/2025 3:09:19 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Salamander

Ping!


31 posted on 04/26/2025 3:11:49 PM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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To: metmom

I was kinda enjoying the change from snakes to crows.


32 posted on 04/26/2025 3:12:16 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Ezekiel

𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵.

There are worse forms of the herp she could have experienced from that date.


33 posted on 04/26/2025 3:12:17 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: DFG

Carletta Andrews was blessed by the Nagas.

Very good luck.


34 posted on 04/26/2025 3:12:52 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=00</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: metmom

All snakes are invasive species in my book. Since the Garden.


35 posted on 04/26/2025 3:13:04 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: DFG

The funniest snake encounters were with the blacksnake that lived in our outhouse on our farm.

Many people ran out screaming with their pants around their ankles. 😁


36 posted on 04/26/2025 3:13:13 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: DFG
But another patron grabbed the snake and released it to the wild.

And the snake slithered happily away with a tequila buzz.

37 posted on 04/26/2025 3:14:02 PM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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To: DFG

grabbed the snake and release it

English must not have been the writers’ best subject.


38 posted on 04/26/2025 3:14:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Chickensoup

:)


39 posted on 04/26/2025 3:15:54 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: DFG

Probably chasing a rat.


40 posted on 04/26/2025 3:19:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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