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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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1 posted on 04/26/2025 2:38:07 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

I only wanted a worm!


2 posted on 04/26/2025 2:38:57 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DFG

“Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?”


3 posted on 04/26/2025 2:40:04 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

must be the best Margies in town.


4 posted on 04/26/2025 2:43:06 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: DFG

I hate when that happens.


5 posted on 04/26/2025 2:43:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: DFG

“Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.”


6 posted on 04/26/2025 2:45:07 PM PDT by Publius
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To: DFG

I think that restaurant has bigger problems than a baby snake.


8 posted on 04/26/2025 2:46:11 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: DFG

One hell of a worm in that tequila!


9 posted on 04/26/2025 2:46:21 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: DFG

a memorable night out


10 posted on 04/26/2025 2:47:35 PM PDT by algore
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To: waterhill

Where’s mama, and there is typically a clutch of eggs. Oddly enough signs of rats and mice are never noticed during health inspections.


11 posted on 04/26/2025 2:49:41 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: DFG

— a baby of indeterminate species —
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Most likely an Eastern Margarita Snake.


12 posted on 04/26/2025 2:49:53 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: DFG

I drank a margarita once and found a cockroach dried to the bottom of the glass. They gave me a free one so I was happy.


13 posted on 04/26/2025 2:51:25 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: Publius

And someome let it go in the “wild” it says


14 posted on 04/26/2025 2:52:32 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: stylecouncilor

Ping


15 posted on 04/26/2025 2:54:14 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: DFG

Tiny little guy.


16 posted on 04/26/2025 2:54:39 PM PDT by enumerated (M81 million votes my ass)
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To: DFG

What’s the old Henny Youngman joke?

He asks the waiter what is a fly doing in my soup.

And the waiter replies, the backstroke.


17 posted on 04/26/2025 2:54:40 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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She has not said if she plans to sue.

How much can you score from an underaged reptile?

18 posted on 04/26/2025 2:55:12 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DFG; The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; Rennes Templar
“I left shaking, I was traumatized.”

I take it she did not adopt it as herpet.

the snake — a baby of indeterminate species —

There's got to be more where that came from.

Is the place already booked up for World Snake Day?

19 posted on 04/26/2025 2:55:20 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: DFG

My wife was doing the yard on her riding mower. She came tearing around the house yelling about a snake. When she made a close pass around a tree, a snake fell out of the tree. Six foot long black racer. I think the snake was more afraid than she was. BTW, black racers are the good guys. They will kill ratlers.


20 posted on 04/26/2025 2:56:10 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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