Woman Finds More Than 20 Snakes In Her Car

[matcom]

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ASTORIA, Ore. --It was either a prank or the work of Mother Nature -- either way, Sherry Hart got a slithery surprise in her car.

Sherry Hart found a pair of garter snakes in the back seat of her car on a recent shopping trip to the grocery store, then found more under a floor mat.

"This lady was freaking out next to her car," says Will Brinkerhoff, 17, an employee at the North Coast Fred Meyer.

Eventually more than 20 of the harmless snakes were found inside the car, some pencil-thin and one the diameter of a quarter and 3 feet long.

Brinkerhoff, another employee and several customers helped clean out the car.

One man dumped out his groceries and gave Hart the plastic carrying bags she could fill them with snakes.

When Warrenton police Officer Jim Gaebel arrived he guessed that one snake must have gotten into the car and had babies. Gaebel later told Hart that in all his years in police work, this was his first snake call.

But Hart believes it was a prank.

"Who did it? We don't know," she said. But she believes her car was chosen because a window stuck in the open position made it an easy target in the big parking lot.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/07/14/woman_finds_more_than_20_snakes_inside_car?mode=PF

[Fox Mulder]

1. Snakes in a motherfuckin' car.

Someone had to say it. :shrug:

[underpants]

4. Well it was going to be me

:grr:

:bounce:

[Fox Mulder]

5. Oooh...if you were two minutes earlier, it would've been you.

:P

[underpants]

7. Why I oughta

:spank::grr:

:bounce:

[jobycom]

15. Yeah, the only reason I clicked on the thread was to see who did.

Congo-rats!

[Radical Activist]

17. Was there really any other reason for this post to exist?

It had to be done.

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Was she scheduled to drive Samuel L. Jackson around or something?

[matcom]

3. next hit movie

"Driving Muthafuckin' Jackson" :P

[Crazy Dave]

6. Ay Caramba!

n/t

[LaurenG]

8. DS1 would have had a field day with this one

I now cannot think of snakes without also thinking of him.:rofl:

[TreasonousBastard]

9. GARTER SNAKES!!! Jeez, I opened this hoping...

to find at least a dozen rattlers. Cobras would be neat.

Garter snakes... what a waste of a good story.

[Deja Q]

10. So it wasn't 20 suitors then?

:yoiks:

[Robb]

11. On another note, I didn't know there were still Fred Meyers around

I figgered they'd all been eaten, like mice, by the WalPython. :shrug:

[LiberalEsto]

12. At least there were no mice in it

"Always look on the bright side of life"

[xchrom]

13. and here i thought it was an article about some of my exes.

[El Fuego]

14. "Snakes in a Car"!

And there ain't a muthafuckin thing you can do about it.

[Brewman_Jax]

16. We have to put a barrier between us and the snakes!