Posted tagged ‘python’

Going For A Birdie?

January 5, 2008

In Australia, a couple put four golf balls into nests at their chicken house so as to encourage the chickens to nest.  Well, a snake got into the henhouse, and thinking the golf balls were eggs, ate them!  The snake was later found with four distinct swellings in its body, and the couple knew that they were the golf balls…the small python was taken to a vet, where the golf balls had to be surgically removed.

Maybe the snake was a golfer trying for an eagle or a birdie…rock-python-python-molurus.jpg

Fries With That?

September 26, 2007

african-rock-python.jpg   You’ve probably heard of the not-so-cute trick of some patrons at fast food drive-up windows throwing drinks at the worker in attendance, while shouting “fire in the hole?”  At times, the merry pranksters add something like tabasco sauce to the drink so as to burn the eyes of the poor worker.

Well, in Round Rock, Texas someone threw a three-foot python at the drive-up clerk at a Taco Bell!  Fortunately, neither the clerk nor the python were hurt, and the snake was placed at a sanctuary-type place afterwards.  Low wages aside, no wonder there can be trouble staffing fast-food joints…