Posted on 07/16/2014 12:34:12 PM PDT by Kartographer
A woman in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had just left her home early Thursday morning when her car suddenly stalled. A good Samaritan pulled over to help, but when he opened the hood of the car he didnt find a dead battery. Instead, he found a very much living 9-foot, 20-pound python..
It was looking right at me. It flicked its little tongue, and I kind of freaked out a little bit, Jackson Ault said of the discovery.
So Ault and the woman, who wasn't identified, called the local police to help. The first officer on the scene wasnt anymore interested in dealing with the snake (believed to be a Burmese python) than Ault.
But then police Lt. Louis Carlos showed up and the story suddenly became much less frightening and far more adorable.
Cool, I want to hold it! Carlos told local affiliate KOAT about his reaction to seeing the snake. It was easy for me to just go in there, pick her up and hold onto her and let her feel the warmth of my hands and my body.
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But of course you’re on a first name basis with that snek. LOL
Still the most testosterone drenched car ever. All I ever wanted in life was one of those, a Vincent, and a P-51. (my needs are simple)
Kudos
Something tells me your graphic is not the same snake in the story. Maybe something in your car?
The snake ate the hamsters in those round cages that drive the engine.
I’m pretty sure rabid squirrels are powering my cars.
Does he have a creamy filling?
If I had those tree rats powering my car, I would order about 3 twenty foot pythons to get rid of them.
I guess if she ate a pastry chef, she might.
;]
Bon appetit.
Hey Sal . . . just wondering how Alice is doing these days? :)
Incredibly, he is *still* fiddling with his new locks and poking his snout and tongue out of the ventilation holes all the time.
He really believes he could make it “in the wild”.
After watching him unsuccessfully try to *pound* a tiny house mouse to death with his face, I’m betting he would not do well at all.
His newest trick is to come lunging out of his door on feeding night, mouth wide-agape, seizing his frozen/thawed mouse in mid-air and then hanging upside down outside the house until I stuff him back inside.
I suspect he is trying to convince me that his “hunting technique” has vastly improved.
It totally has not.
Crazy little goof.
;]
[when I see that his nose is poked into a ventilation hole, I sneak up and push my finger in against it from the outside....he pushes back really hard]
Ugh!
The Twinkie cake isn’t bad but that slimy-sweet goop in the middle makes my teeth hurt, just thinking about it.
When I was a kid, I always squeezed it out of the holes on the bottom and ate it “empty”.
[same with Oreos]
That boy jest ain’t right. ;^)
LOL! Yeah, head-butting the mouse is probably not going to get him very far. :) Actually, he sounds quite intelligent for a snake. And intelligent animals tend to get bored. Does he have some kind of snake toy to play with? (What would a snake toy BE? I cannot imagine. A mouse, I guess!)
Speaking of smart animals who are escape artists, have you seen this video about the honey badgers getting out of their cage? I sat there with my mouth open, just astonished. http://www.wimp.com/badgerhoudini/
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