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Snake Survives Week in Car Fan

By Miss Cellania in Animal on Nov 25, 2008 at 10:17 am


Noel Padgham of Yarrawonga, Australia wondered what was making that awful noise in her car. After a week of hearing it, she took the car for a check. Mechanics suspected something was stuck in the air conditioning fan.

Air-conditioning mechanic Kit Carson, 59, got in the car expecting to find the usual piece of paper – they tend to fall down the back of the glove box – but instead found a one-metre carpet python.

“Him and I both got a jump,” he said.

“He’d been spinning around like a bloody washing machine, but the end of his tail must have been hanging out – it was all feathered and ratty.”

The snake was taken to an animal hospital, where five centimeters of his tail had to be amputated, but he is expected to make an otherwise full recovery. Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: Nick Welsh)


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  1. sw
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    i wonder how much snake you can amputate and it would live? is it like the colon, you can remove a lot of length with no worries?

  2. Athon
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    sw,

    Unfortunately you'd get to a bit of snake which would have some necessary bits. A colon is more or less the same along its entire length, so if you halve it, it's just half as efficient (which doesn't usually make a huge difference, so long as your diet is kept in check).

    A snake, on the other hand, has organs. Sure, they're long and thin...but they're still in there. It would be just like a long, thin person. At some point, cutting away at a person from the bottom up is going to remove something necessary.

    Athon

  3. DOJ
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    a snakes 'tail' is a surprisingly small part of its body. everything past it's butt, i think.

  4. Jenny
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    aww glad they saved it rather than just cut its head off or something like i expected them to haha...

  5. Rocky Rook
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

    Reminds me of the snake in a server in Africa.

  6. vero4902
    Nov 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    Mmmmmmm, warmth! Glad it survived... snakes aren't so bad :)

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