Customer rattled after snake falls from Mexican restaurant ceiling, into margarita during date night

NY Post ^ | 04/26/2026 | Chris Harris

[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.

[sphinx]

Did you pause to worry about what killed the mouse?

[SunkenCiv]

“herpet”, LOL!

[singing] Everybody’s gone serpent, serpent MSA.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We always figured it was the snapped neck.

[sphinx]

I would have immediately assumed venomous spiders, Arachnophobia level, that would be after me next.

[gundog]

If the question is “What’s a snake doing there?, the answer is “It’s a rat snake.”

[oldtech]

Maybe the Board of Health is not doing it’s job. Place should be closed immediately while this is checked out.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“venomous spiders”

LOL...well, maybe not a bad thought. Somehow he fell off the overhead beams. I figured he just lost his balance. But spiders is a good guess.

[MikelTackNailer]

67 posts and no one thought of Frank Zappa's song on this very subject? "But it wasn't a Monty Python!" Sometimes, Freepers, you exasperate me.

"Baby Snakes
Late at night is when they come out
Baby Snakes
Sure you know what I'm talkin' about
Pink 'n' wet
They make the best kind of pet

Baby
Baby
Snakes

I looked around
And there's a couple right near me Baby Snakes
Maybe I think they can probably hear me
Pink 'n' wet
I'll take all I can get

Baby
Baby
Baby
Snakes (Yeah)

They live in a ho-ho, a ho-ho-hole (Tiny hole)
That is usually empty
Usually empty (Tiny, too)
They live by a co-code, a co, a co-co
A code
That is usually "SMPTE"
Which stands for:
'Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers'

Well maybe I think
That is what keeps them in sync
They're wet 'n' they're pink
I think I'll give 'em a, give 'em a
Give 'em a drink"

[SunkenCiv]

Oh wow... I think I have that on vinyl... good call!

[Salamander]

Everybody gets a free snake but me, dammit.

[clearcarbon]

"A snake dropped out of the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant and landed in a woman’s margarita,"

Is there a snake diving event in the Olympics?

[newfreep]

Is the place already booked up for World Snake Day?

[Bullish]

Sounds like something really cool to brag about if you ask me.

[Ezekiel]

Weird Al sure was able to sink hiss teeth into that market, eh?

Jimmy Boaffett, not so much.

“Wasting away in Margarteritaville..”

[Ezekiel]

Everybody gets a free snake but me, dammit.

Imagine if it were raining copperheads --

Pennies from heaven!

[Salamander]

😆