One has to ask what Detroit is thinking these days. The auto industry is struggling with the outlook for GM quite grim at the moment. Still, I think offering certain option packages can help increase sales a bit. But I draw the line at this. Pythons are not a good choice.
The next time Dan McBride rents a car, he may want to inspect it not just for dings and dents but also for snakes.
The assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University found a two-foot-long ball python in his rental car this week as he left the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament in Paducah.
Apparently, McBride thought it was a gag and put the car into gear. Whereupon the snake looked at him. McBride really, really wanted to leave the car, but the snake had draped itself over the gearshift.
No, I'll say this, McBride is made of sterner stuff than Mrs. Gaius. Had this happened to her, the rental car would have a brand new sunroof. And she wouldn't have cared where the car drove itself off too, either! I had to go chase away a teeny little grass snake for her just the other day. A two foot python would have ended in hysterics. And modifications to the roof.
