VIDEO: Car owner’s manual – chapter one, snake removal

Snakes can get into the darnedest places, such as your car. The issue then becomes how to get it out. The answer is, with a lot of work and care as well as an equal amount of patience, such as possessed by the man in this video shot somewhere possibly in Southeast Asia Getting a small snake out of a car is tough. Getting a large one out is practically impossible - at least extracting the reptile in one piece and alive is.
October 26, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Snakes can get into the darnedest places, such as your car.

The issue then becomes how to get it out. The answer is, with a lot of work and care as well as an equal amount of patience, such as possessed by the man in this video shot somewhere possibly in Southeast Asia

Getting a small snake out of a car is tough. Getting a large one out is practically impossible - at least extracting the reptile in one piece and alive is.

One family in the United States proved this point. %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal This video Visit youtube page false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d19AcdEh2nk false false%> show the entire dashboard by the driver detached from the interior to reveal a very large snake indeed, or what can be seen of it. Unfortunately, it appears that this snake didn’t survive the ordeal, but not through lack of the car owner’s care. Wrapping itself around sharp objects likely didn’t help its chances of survival.

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