Snakes In A Can!

Sometimes, even the masterminds of the Animal Uprising™ make terrible miscalculations. For example, what sounded like a great opportunity to smuggle a member of the reptile legion into the home of an unsuspecting human went terribly awry - for the commando at least. Smuggling snakes in a can turns out to be a really bad idea.

PHILADELPHIA - Earl Hartman was a little rattled by something he says he found in a can of green beans: a snake head. The Philadelphia man said he found the inch-long head on his plate Wednesday night, right between a chicken breast and buttered noodles. He said it came out of the green bean can.

"When I sat down, I noticed something didn't look right," Hartman told WCAU-TV. "It didn't look like a green bean."

Hartman said he called the Pathmark store where he bought the beans, and got a call back from Seneca Foods in upstate New York, where the vegetables were canned.

Rich Savner, a spokesman for Carteret, N.J.-based Pathmark Stores Inc., confirmed that a customer reported finding a "foreign substance" in a can of green beans, but said officials had not determined what it was.

The problem: they were sliced green beans. It must have been a terrible shock for the commando when he realized that. It is highly unlikely that snake and beans will ever be a real hot-selling item at the local grocery store. A spokesperson for the company that canned the beans refused to comment on the matter. (Which perfectly illustrates why we here at Blue Crab Boulevard are never asked to be corporate spokespersons. We would have demanded payment for the extra protein.)