My 26 year old collection, surpassed by one dryer load. Life's not fair.
Posted on 10/04/2019 7:37:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Florida man who took apart his clothes dryer when it stopped working made a shocking discovery in the lint exhaust -- a snake.
Bruce Wiley said the dryer at his Winter Park home stopped working, so he started taking it apart in an attempt to identify the cause of the malfunction.
Wiley said he felt something moving when he reached into the lint exhaust and took a closer look to find a trapped snake.
He said the snake, which appeared to have minor injuries, pulled itself free after a few minutes and slithered out of his home through the open exhaust vent.
Wiley said he found the flap on the vent exhaust outside his home stuck open, giving the snake its apparent entry spot.
My second-floor dryer vent is about seven feet above ground and the flapper lid got stuck open. A chipmunk thought it was a nice place to get warm and got into the dryer hose and cut a hole in it. He was then between floors and I’d hear him chewing on pine cone nuts.
I rigged up a couple of coins on flap to make it heavy and propped it open with a toothpick. When the chipmunk left the dislodged toothpick let the flap shut tight and he couldn’t return. I fabricated and put a metal screen over the flap to prevent a re-occurrence.
Squirrels do that too!..................
I don’t know why I even clicked on the post. Now I’ve got to go get laundry out of the dryer. Great, just great.
O just the headline
I sure as heck did not read the article
It sure is amazing, and to think that he's nowhere near as busy as Area Man!
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During a Florida winter, my dad went under the house to check for frozen pipes. In that dark environment, he saw a sizable shadow move. Two takeaways: Fastest egress ever from under a house; frozen pipes? what frozen pipes?
Especially in Central Fl - should not have neglected Coral Snakes in my previous list, a small very colorful cute snake but said to have a deadly bite.
Well of course he did.
Good thing it wasn’t poisonous.................
A green tree snake fell out of tree when my mother walked under it and it landed around her shoulders like a necklace.......I never knew mom could scream that loud!..................
West Philly? Isn't that racist?
You didn’t read my first post. You’re not in compliance.
LOL
lol. Winter Park, where the snake was found :)
My laundry days would be done because I would be dead from a heart attack. There is no such thing as a “good” snake.
I had to quickly scroll past the first pic in this thread because I can’t even tolerate looking at the horrid creatures.
Sorry, but I prefer rats to snakes.
There is no such thing as a good snake.
My 26 year old collection, surpassed by one dryer load. Life's not fair.
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