Sounds like a good idea for a new Stephen King novel to me...gosh I hate snakes. I would have fainted.
Thu Jul 17, 6:26 PM ET
GORHAM, Maine - Mara Ranger will be a little paranoid doing laundry now. When she was removing clothes from the washing machine at her Maine farmhouse Wednesday, the clothes moved. She told WMTW-TV, "I jumped back" and saw a snake. She quickly shut the lid and called for help.
Maine Animal Damage Control operator Richard Burton reached into the machine and pulled and pulled — all 8 feet of a reticulated python.
Burton guesses the snake got into Ranger's washing machine through water pipes. The snake's future home will be York Animal Kingdom in York.
Ranger is going to start looking into every corner of her washing machine. She says, "I'm going to be looking in the tub first — before and after, maybe even during, the rinse cycle."
4 comments from people who actually love me:
That would have scared me half to death. I don't care for snakes either. Yikes. Big hug. :)
I read that if you wanted to sum up most of the fears of most people, put a ladder in a pit of snakes. make a person stand on the top of the ladder and then give a speech to an auditorium full of people.
Barb and I are very alert to snakes here because there are a lot of them around. We leave them alone and they leave us alone.
I saw a lot more snakes in Oklahoma than I did in Kansas but there I was out in the tall grass a lot. MUD
Oh my gosh!!!
I think, if that were me, I'd be checking out more than just the washing machine and surrounding areas! Snakes in my opinion are good only when they are dead! Don't give me that crapola about how great they are at catching mice, keeping other bad things at bay, etc. I just plain do not like 'em, don't want them anywhere near me either! So what did my 16-year-old stepgranddaughter find on our front door step around noon on the last day of school this year? Yep! A nice big old black snake! We watched it slither off the stoop, across the flower bed in front of the living room and over to the stone retainer wall of our parking area where it disappeared into one of the crevices there. This past Friday, the first day for the new TSS for my 2-year-old grandson to start working with him, as she came down the sidewalk, she saw a black snake -maybe the same one, who knows, slip-sliding its way across the front yard, into the neighbors yard as it made its way to a drainage ditch on the other side of the neighbor's house! A black snake sighting in my front yard, twice in one summer and both times, on a Friday, about noon? What are the odds on there being a repeat performance? Makes me shiver just typing that!
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