Man finds python in his rental car

EKU is an hour from Lexington, but I didn't hear about this on local news. Hope his weekend went better.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/snake_re...K_tiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

Kentucky man finds python in rental car
Mon May 29, 8:09 AM ET

The next time Dan McBride rents a car, he may want to inspect it not just for dings and dents but also for snakes. The assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University found a two-foot-long ball python in his rental car this week as he left the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament in Paducah.

McBride got into his car Wednesday night with a colleague and saw the snake draped across the console.

McBride said he thought it was a rubber snake someone put there as a joke. He even gave the snake a pat and put the car into drive.

As he drove toward the exit, the snake lifted its head. McBride hit the brakes, then started to get out of the car. But the snake was on the gear shift, forcing McBride to keep his foot on the brake.

"You can't act tough when you are sitting a foot and a half away from a snake," said his colleague, Simon Gray.

The snake was captured, and was being held until its owner comes to claim it, authorities said.

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Sounds crazy! *goosebumps* But I do love snakes but when that happen, that's CRAZY!

Good thing nothing bad happened. Pythons can squeeze and crush a man alive and the fangs start to sink the guy's head in and he is done.

If that happened, I would want the next rental car I drive to be for free , just one free car rental to make up for the mistake. Of course, For sure I would look really hard before I took the car for a spin before leaving the rental lot for good until I return the car back to the rental lot.

Heath said:

Good thing nothing bad happened. Pythons can squeeze and crush a man alive and the fangs start to sink the guy's head in and he is done.

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The assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University found a two-foot-long ball python in his rental car

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I'm no expert, but a two foot ball python shouldn't be much of a threat for a full grown man. His shorts might be a different story.

I thought I read twenty two foot long python and I was very alarmed, a snake on the console but pythons still are very dangerous because of their posionous bite. Even if the snakes fangs were pulled out by the vet. There is still a potentional danger that posion still can go in the skin with the broken off teeth under the snake's teeth that may still be there. I would not take any foolish risks even though I can tell which one is posionous or not. I respect snakes as a very dangerous hazard to be avoided at all costs. Even if there is a fake looking snake there, I would break off a very long branch off the tree then all the way away from me, I would lift the snake to make sure it is real or fake but I would not touch it with my bare hands. No sense in getting a fang bite.

I really hate snakes and if I see it in the car. .I would SCREAM and run!!!

Another lost snake

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/flying_s...pFVuWdsG_btiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit
Sat Jun 3, 6:47 AM ET

Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane's instrument panel: a 4 1/2-foot snake.

Coles was taking a leisurely flight over the West Virginia countryside in his Piper Cherokee last weekend and was preparing to land in Ohio when the snake revealed itself.

"Nothing in any of the manuals ever described anything like this," said the 62-year-old Cross Lanes resident.

But advice given 25 years earlier from his flight instructor sprung to mind: "No matter what happens, fly the plane."

Coles attempted to swat the snake but it fell to the pilot's feet, then darted to the other side of the cockpit.

While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with one hand, Coles grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.

"There was no way I was letting that thing go," he said. "It coiled all around my arm, and its tail grabbed hold of a lever on the floor and started pulling."

The next step was to radio for emergency landing clearance.

"They came back and asked what my problem was," he said. "I told them I had one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane. They cleared me in."

After a smooth landing, Coles posed for pictures with the snake, then let it loose.

"That snake resides in Ohio now," he said.


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Heath said:

I thought I read twenty two foot long python and I was very alarmed, a snake on the console but pythons still are very dangerous because of their posionous bite. Even if the snakes fangs were pulled out by the vet. There is still a potentional danger that posion still can go in the skin with the broken off teeth under the snake's teeth that may still be there. I would not take any foolish risks even though I can tell which one is posionous or not. I respect snakes as a very dangerous hazard to be avoided at all costs. Even if there is a fake looking snake there, I would break off a very long branch off the tree then all the way away from me, I would lift the snake to make sure it is real or fake but I would not touch it with my bare hands. No sense in getting a fang bite.

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Pythons are NOT venomous, you are probably talking about something different. Pythons are constrictors. They can give you a nasty bite, but doesn't posion you. They constrict animals to suffocate them so they can eat them. Boa and Pythons are the common known constrictors along with corn snakes and many others.