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"Snakes on a plane" ain't got nothin' on me, Everett!

Last week, a houseguest was sitting on the front porch late at night when he looked up above him and a snake was crawling along a ledge above him and making a meal out of a baby bird from a nest in the corner of the roof. The snake then slithered back and to a perch on the top of a window ledge directly above where he had been sitting.

After taking a picture and Googling, we learned that it was simply a rat snake, which are legendary climbers. But noneletheless, it remained on it's perch on the top window ledge.

Being the intrepid soul that I am, and being willing to screech and run like a schoolgirl if necessary, I went out, armed with 2 rakes and a large garbage can on wheels.

I managed to nudge the snake enough to have it start wrapping itself around the rake, at which point I moved the rake over the garbage can and shook it until the little bugger fell in. I then slammed the lid down, and rolled the can half a mile through my neighborhood and across a major street, where I was able to tip the can over as the lid popped off and the snake had the good sense to crawl out and off into the woods...I then spent the rest of the day strutting like a peacock:-)

If I had been Adam(or Eve), the world would never have fallen, because I'da never gotten close enough to the derned snake to be tempted by it.

Midnite