Video at site.
Posted on 03/07/2016 7:36:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's every driver in southern Africa's nightmare: Open up your car bonnet and find a huge python curled up inside.
Footage recently uploaded to YouTube appears to show a driver in Zimbabwe doing just that.
The man - who isn't named - walks cautiously round to the front of a Zimbabwe-registered truck on a dirt track and finds the creature coiled on top of the engine.
He grabs the snake near its head and, with help from another man, extricates it from the engine and drops it in the thick grass by the side of the road.
The snake is writhing as it is carried but cannot bite the man because it is held on its neck.
From inside the car come the excited voices of children.
"Daddy, no, no: Don't put that thing in the car!" shouts one.
There are other comments: "It's spitting... it's a rattlesnake" and then, hardly surprisingly: "Oh, that is a monster."
Though the footage was uploaded this week and is causing a buzz on social media, it's not clear when or where in Zimbabwe it was filmed. There are two cars in the clip: it may be that one driver summoned the other for help.
Pythons are found in many places in Zimbabwe. In November last year, a 2.5m long one was found abandoned on a bus in the east of the country.
The snakes are protected animals in Zimbabwe. To be found in possession of a skin can land you in jail, as a man from southern Lupane found out to his cost last month.
He was slapped with a nine-year jail sentence after killing a python that had been eating his goats and displaying its skin in his house.
Pythons squeeze their victims. A tetanus injection is needed if you are bitten by a python.
The tagline under the YouTube post reads: "Always check under your hood."
Video at site.
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looked to be about 15 feet long.they either like to cool under the hood or the dark. aliens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whew! For a minute I thought our poor friend George Zimmerman had yet another misadventure, this time with a snake!
Let him stay out of the news a little bit longer, for everyone’s good.
Bonnet, a woman’s hat?
Oh I get it. A hood.
I thought it was on his head to. LOL
British tards.
Boot, trunk
bonnet, hood
prince, inbred geek
Good one.
OH, that bonnet. Cebu, he won’t eat much ...
How would you like to have a python in your Easter bonnet? Better self defense than mace.
With Easter on March 27 (Gunner Anoreth’s 25th birthday, *drink*), I expect to be wearing a couple of layers of wool scarves.
Reptile friends around here are keeping a low profile for now.
I don’t get it. Start the engine. Drive the car away from the house. When it gets hot enough the snake will crawl away. No need to grab it.
And I liked garter snakes because i knew they were harmless as a kid, used to pick them up to show off to the boys. Now they are creepy, and if they killed every last one, maybe not garter snakes, it would make the world a better place.
My daughter had a bf, years and years ago. I think it was a python he had. I'd go over and the thing would be stretched full length along the baseboard. They had to buy a live mouse for it every day or so. It was a young one. I don't think I could sleep in a house with one of those on the loose.
Well, they broke up and he moved home with Mom. With the snake. It got loose; it was in the paper, they never found it. If it slithered to the river, I wonder if it could have drifted downstream. Hard to say.
Serpentine belt check.
Ha!!!!
Now that’s a great visual! :)
:D
All things considered, I’d rather have a bee in my bonnet.
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