Snake On A Train
The Swiss have a problem at the moment. It seems a passenger on one of their commuter trains was taking his pet for a ride. The pet made a break for it and hid in the walls of the car. So now they have the railroad car out of service while they're hunting for the pet.
"We immediately took the train out of service," Eric Luthy, a spokesman for the Neuchatel Regional Transport company, said Thursday.
Since last Saturday, reptile experts and infrared devices have been unable to find the cold-blooded adder or coax it out of its hiding place with juicy bait.
Although the snake is not regarded as dangerous, passengers "wouldn't understand" if the train was put back into service with the 80 to 130 centimetre-long (2.6 to 4.2 feet) reptile slithering around, Luthy explained.
The rail company hopes to claim compensation from the pet owner's civil liability insurance.
We have been trying to tell the Swiss railway people our thoughts on the matter all day, but they keep hanging up. So we'll just let our faithful readers know that we've figured out why they can't find the snake.
He had a transfer. He's been joyriding all over the alps laughing at them.
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By Blackhawk, Friday, 25 August , 2006 @ 5:55 pm
Either joyriding or it’s…the Black Adder!