Snake On A Plane
No, not the much ballyhooed movie they are releasing this summer. This is for real. Well, at least the article says it is.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane's instrument panel — a 4 1/2-foot black snake.
Coles had left Charleston earlier for a leisurely flight over the West Virginia countryside last Saturday in his Piper Cherokee and was preparing to land in Gallipolis, Ohio, when the snake revealed itself.
"Nothing in any of the manuals ever described anything like this," the 62-year-old Cross Lanes resident said. But the advice given 25 years earlier from his flight instructor immediately came to mind: "No matter what happens, fly the plane."
Coles snagged the snake and landed the plane. The funnies part of the article is his quote later in the article:
Coles said he was lucky his usual travel companions, his wife and dachshund, were not on the flight.
"If my wife had been in the plane, I wouldn't have a wife, a plane or myself," Coles said. "I don't know what might have happened if Killer had been in the plane, but it sure would have been a lot more exciting."
We can sympathize. If my wife had been on the plane there would have been a new opening in the side of the plane. For sure.
Weird Stuff | Gaius Friday, 2 June , 2006
By Tony, Friday, 2 June , 2006 @ 9:08 pm
Dammit, man! Don’t you understand? THERE ARE SNAKES ON THE PLANE!
By Mike's America, Friday, 2 June , 2006 @ 11:34 pm
It’s not like the snake was going to attack the man. People do get a bit hysterical around snakes.
By Gaius, Saturday, 3 June , 2006 @ 6:01 am
Heh - I swear I thought this was one sill story, after all, a black snake isn’t really at all dangerous. Unless you’re a rodent!