[HangThemHigh]

Great Story.

I've got an animal/motorcycle story, not nearly as funny, but it's true and I'll tell it anyway.

I'm riding my bike in an urban neighborhood when I spot a snake sleeping in the road. I didn't want to run him over so I stopped short. It was about dark and I couldn't see what type of snake he was, only that he was nearly 6 feet long. About then the snake wakes up and heads for the nearest cover, my bike. Next thing I know, he's in my front wheel and headed up the forks, finally arriving at my left handlebar, curled around the clutch lever.

Still not knowing if he's poisonous and being more than a little nervous about reaching for the clutch, I push the bike off with my foot and gingerly drop the tranny into gear. With the snake waving around uncomfortably close to my exposed face and testing the air with his tongue, I lurched away and into a nearby parking lot with a street light. There I discover he's a harmless black snake and extract him from my front forks.

I want to take him out in the country before releasing him, but I have no way to carry him while I ride. Luckily, there's a McDonald's next door, so I walk over, hiding my snake behind my back as I go in. I ask the closest burger flipper for a bag, but she balks, saying she's not allowed to give them away. I persist and she asks what it's for, whereupon I produce my wriggling friend and tell her its for my snake. She screams and runs to the back for the manager. He quickly assesses the situation and decides a bag is a small price to pay to get the two of us out of his store, even if it was against company policy. Since then I've often wondered if would also have given me the contents of the cash register if I had asked. He didn't even ask if I wanted fries.

With the snake safely in the paper bag I rode several miles out of town and released him into some woods.

[MEG33]

Great story!

[skinkinthegrass]

I'm riding my bike in an urban...if I had asked. He didn't even ask if I wanted fries.

I'll say it, thanks for the snake...from an Am. Herp. in Ky....(I BRAKE FOR SNAKES, NOT LIBERALS :)

[B4Ranch]

Now that shows true concern for animals!

[Smokin' Joe]

Geez, some people have all the luck. I just get a half-dozen bees up the sleeve of my leather jacket....At 60 mph. How many times can you say "ouch" before you get the bike shut down?

[CourtneyLeigh]

He quickly assesses the situation and decides a bag is a small price to pay to get the two of us out of his store, even if it was against company policy

Very funny! I would have died seeing the look on that kids face! That happened to me once, but I was on the other side of the counter at a Long John Silvers! A kid was "walking" his albino python *note* longer than his arms stretched out, and since it was hot, he needed some water for it.
So he brings it into the store, and hilariously scares the dumbwitted manager into the back room. She had the nerve to blame me for letting him in the store.

Hell that was funny.
Good story HangThemHigh