Kentucky Man Finds Python in Rental Car

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PADUCAH, Ky. -- 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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But not more at the time, compared to a bite from a constrictor. And yes, constrictors usually bite when they attack.
 
In all fairness, to someone with a snake phobia, stopping to think whether the snake is poisonous or not is time wasted. Better to be safe than sorry.
 
Inkara1 said:
someone with a snake phobia, stopping to think whether the snake is poisonous or not is time wasted.
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There is a fair share of people that don't care for snakes, myself included. In fact they are at the bottom of my list on the pet list. There have been times when a phobia would have been, well, a major hinderence...
 
At least he braked and didn't do something really stupid...like swing the wheel over to the right, or throw both hands in the air and try to leap out of the car.

...and yes, I know someone who leapt from a moving car because of a spider. The car wasn't going quick and she wasn't driving but there ya go.
 
Inkara1 said:
In all fairness, to someone with a snake phobia, stopping to think whether the snake is poisonous or not is time wasted. Better to be safe than sorry.
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Damned right. I wouldn't have wrecked the car, but I would've been looking for a place to pull off, stop, engage the emergency brake, and get the fuck outta the car. Get out FIRST, then see if the damn thing's poisonous.
 
But if it was a possum, you'd have told it to get it's seatbelt done, wouldn't ya?

What's the word on that mortgage, ya bum. We're all wrapped up in suspenders waiting.
 
If my ordeals of the last 3+ years have taught me nothing else, it is patience and perseverence.

I know exactly what the percieved snag(s) is/are. I simply refuse to pay through the nose to appease some dickwit in a tie who thinks he holds the cards.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
If my ordeals of the last 3+ years have taught me nothing else, it is patience and perseverence.

I know exactly what the percieved snag(s) is/are. I simply refuse to pay through the nose to appease some dickwit in a tie who thinks he holds the cards.
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You can always let his name 'slip out' in front of one of your more viscious clients...;)
 
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