Anyone know anything about pythons?
So a friend of a friend was house sitting for his grandparents while they were out of town, and decided he should take his pet ball python with him so he could care for it while he was there. He was driving his grandmother's Jeep with the snake tank in the back, and because the suspension is so stiff he noticed that the snake was being bounced all over the place in there.

Being a nice pet owner, he took the snake out of the cage and had it on his arm as he was driving. All was good until his father called him on his cell phone. He held the steering wheel with the hand that had the snake wrapped around it. After a few moments, the snake zipped into the steering column.

Panic ensued.

He tried putting the snake's heat lamp out in the passenger area to lure it out, to no avail. It's been down below freezing for the past two nights, so I'm pretty sure the thing's dead by now. Nonetheless he decided to tear apart the dashboard to retrieve the snake. When he realized he was in over his head, he called me.

My best guess is that the snake went along the heating ducts to the heater core and is nestled in there. To get to the heater core you have to take apart the entire dashboard, including removing the entire steering column, which means disconnecting it down at the rack and pinion under the engine. Unfortunately by the time I got there he had already taken things apart in the extreme, including removing the airbag from the passenger's side. In case you don't know, the airbag happens to be highly explosive.

I tried my best, I really did. But in the end I told him that his best bet was to get the thing towed to a garage and have them do it. As his face fell I couldn't resist any longer. In my best Samuel L. Jackson voice I barked, "I've had it with these mothafuckin' snakes in this mothafuckin' Jeep!"

Somehow he kept from hitting me. I'm not sure how.

Anyway, the question is: how likely is the thing to have shuffled off this mortal coil?
( Wanderer, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 1:02, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Oh man, you're so screwed.
I suggest that you consildate all your debts into one easy affordable monthly payment plan, quit uni and get a job.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 8:15, Reply)

GONZ!
How are you?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 8:32, Reply)

Not to bad thanks, but I got a feelin' I'm going to book myself in a room with a view at the royal free hospital later on today.
How you doin'?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 8:52, Reply)

I'm great thanks lovely
Just a bit worried about you. Make sure you go today won't you?
Is your phone ok now? Will you be able to msn and that?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 9:03, Reply)

Cheers, but I'll be fine.
I've decided now that I'm definatly going in tomorow, as today they don't have the gastro-team in, so I'll end up in trouble like last time, as they'd take away my meds and not give them back to me.

But I'll deffo go in tomorow morning, no matter what.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 10:48, Reply)

See that you do, mister!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 11:01, Reply)

dunno about cars
but when I was a kid our python disappeared and about 4 months later slithered out the back of our tv set alive and well
( Peej, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 10:05, Reply)