It would be interesting to know what snake it is. I don’t do snakes at all, but we should not be cruel to animals including snakes which would go anywhere warm, like near a car engine to raise their body temperature.
I was a little puzzled as to why they didn’t find a place to pull over and stop, and just let it crawl off. Then I realized at the end that they wanted it to be crushed by another car. Nice.
Shudders. When I saw this on the news yesterday, I went outside and made sure my car window wasn’t opened enough for anything to slither in. Most of the snakes that show up around here are venomous. Oddly enough, a baby rattlesnake’s bite is worse than an adult’s.
They could have pulled over, although it looked like they may have been on a really busy road or the interstate. I don’t mind snakes but I’m not real good at knowing who’s poisonous and who’s not; and even so, the non-poisonous can still give you a nasty bite. If they had stopped, it may have come off on its own, and/or they could have thought about turning on the wipers to see if that would get it to move off the car. One could only hope the snake didn’t end up under someone’s wheels, but it probably did, unless it came off the car across the shoulder of the road.
Once in TX, a baby bull snake got under our front doorjamb and entered the house!! Another couple was visiting us and both husbands got the little guy temporarily into a large plastic baggie and dumped him back outside. And even this baby was aggressively trying to bite both men all the while. I just thank God my husband saw it crawling across the foyer before my toddler, dogs, or cats found it–THAT would not have been good…
I have just been looking up North American Snakes – goodness, what a lot you do have.
We have to make do with three: the only poisonous one the Adder, the extremely rare Smooth Snake which can be mistaken for an Adder, and the common or garden Grass Snake which is large and green and a good thing to have around. Unless you go charging around the bracken in woods, you are unlikely to come across an Adder unless at rest sluggishly in the sun.
One way to identify a North American venomous snake species: Look at its head. If it’s venomous, it’ll have a diamond-shaped head (except for the coral snake), and if it’s non-venomous, it’ll be round and tubular-shaped……like a common ribbon or garter snake. With this snake, it was kind of hard to tell because it was moving so much.
I’m still not convinced it wasn’t a water moccasin–it was opening its mouth an awful lot because it was upset to find itself on a moving vehicle–it was moving around so much that I couldn’t see the color of its mouth.
Pageantmaster, there’s all sorts of weird things over here, but I’m sure that’s true everywhere. When we lived in a rural TX town, I went to the loo late at night, turned on the light, and there was a spider in the corner, behind the commode, as big as my fist. We had tried to do without, but the next day we called pest control. I draw the line at insects with more hair than me or arachnids I could throw a saddle on.
Another wild thing is to drive down the Outer Banks(NC) beach road, late at night in the pitch-dark and see all the ghost crabs. They look like creepy little glow in the dark spiders running all over place, and for some reason they have a real knack for ending up in the middle of the road!! They probably find the asphalt easier to move on compared to the sand.
Even today I took my youngest(3) out of our van and set her on the driveway. She said, “Look, Mommy, beetles”…I looked and said, “No, honey, I don’t see any beetles”, but then I looked closer and there were two large fire ants running crazily around. Usually the fire ants will stay in the grass or dirt–today I don’t know why they found the driveway more attractive; it wasn’t a shade issue. Luckily we both had shoes on, and whilst I believe in kindness to all God’s creatures I could not allow my babe to get stung; so, those two fire ants are no more.
It’s so hot here that the armadillos must also be seeking cooler territory–I usually don’t see them around, but the last three days I’ve sadly seen two of them dead in the road(hit by cars). Bummer–they’re cute little guys.
That is a poisonous snake with a triangular head. This snake is a diamond-back rattlesnake, NOT a water moccasin; mocassins are uniformly black or dark charcoal gray. I grew up on a lake and know moccasins well. They are very mean and aggressive when riled.
None of this explains how the snake got onto the car’s hood. Someone either would’ve had to put the snake there, or they drove the car into the water so that it could slither up onto the hood. And that snake had a definite diamond pattern in its markings. There were no rattles that I could see, so it wasn’t a rattler, and it could very well have been a rat snake.
I’m originally from Tennessee, and many’s the time I have a snake or something in my car engine.
He actually wanted to get on a plane, but was late for the audition.
Well, at least the snake wasn’t venomous.
too bad karma isn’t real, then they would come back as snakes and be dealt with as much mercy as she have shown here.
oops. i meant “they”.
If only there was a device to move material from the windshield and shunt it onto the road.
That was no water moccasin!
It would be interesting to know what snake it is. I don’t do snakes at all, but we should not be cruel to animals including snakes which would go anywhere warm, like near a car engine to raise their body temperature.
I was a little puzzled as to why they didn’t find a place to pull over and stop, and just let it crawl off. Then I realized at the end that they wanted it to be crushed by another car. Nice.
I think it is a rat snake.
Northern water snake, I’m pretty sure. Non-venomous.
Shudders. When I saw this on the news yesterday, I went outside and made sure my car window wasn’t opened enough for anything to slither in. Most of the snakes that show up around here are venomous. Oddly enough, a baby rattlesnake’s bite is worse than an adult’s.
They could have pulled over, although it looked like they may have been on a really busy road or the interstate. I don’t mind snakes but I’m not real good at knowing who’s poisonous and who’s not; and even so, the non-poisonous can still give you a nasty bite. If they had stopped, it may have come off on its own, and/or they could have thought about turning on the wipers to see if that would get it to move off the car. One could only hope the snake didn’t end up under someone’s wheels, but it probably did, unless it came off the car across the shoulder of the road.
Once in TX, a baby bull snake got under our front doorjamb and entered the house!! Another couple was visiting us and both husbands got the little guy temporarily into a large plastic baggie and dumped him back outside. And even this baby was aggressively trying to bite both men all the while. I just thank God my husband saw it crawling across the foyer before my toddler, dogs, or cats found it–THAT would not have been good…
I have just been looking up North American Snakes – goodness, what a lot you do have.
We have to make do with three: the only poisonous one the Adder, the extremely rare Smooth Snake which can be mistaken for an Adder, and the common or garden Grass Snake which is large and green and a good thing to have around. Unless you go charging around the bracken in woods, you are unlikely to come across an Adder unless at rest sluggishly in the sun.
One way to identify a North American venomous snake species: Look at its head. If it’s venomous, it’ll have a diamond-shaped head (except for the coral snake), and if it’s non-venomous, it’ll be round and tubular-shaped……like a common ribbon or garter snake. With this snake, it was kind of hard to tell because it was moving so much.
And its marking pattern was all wrong.
I’m still not convinced it wasn’t a water moccasin–it was opening its mouth an awful lot because it was upset to find itself on a moving vehicle–it was moving around so much that I couldn’t see the color of its mouth.
Pageantmaster, there’s all sorts of weird things over here, but I’m sure that’s true everywhere. When we lived in a rural TX town, I went to the loo late at night, turned on the light, and there was a spider in the corner, behind the commode, as big as my fist. We had tried to do without, but the next day we called pest control. I draw the line at insects with more hair than me or arachnids I could throw a saddle on.
Another wild thing is to drive down the Outer Banks(NC) beach road, late at night in the pitch-dark and see all the ghost crabs. They look like creepy little glow in the dark spiders running all over place, and for some reason they have a real knack for ending up in the middle of the road!! They probably find the asphalt easier to move on compared to the sand.
Even today I took my youngest(3) out of our van and set her on the driveway. She said, “Look, Mommy, beetles”…I looked and said, “No, honey, I don’t see any beetles”, but then I looked closer and there were two large fire ants running crazily around. Usually the fire ants will stay in the grass or dirt–today I don’t know why they found the driveway more attractive; it wasn’t a shade issue. Luckily we both had shoes on, and whilst I believe in kindness to all God’s creatures I could not allow my babe to get stung; so, those two fire ants are no more.
It’s so hot here that the armadillos must also be seeking cooler territory–I usually don’t see them around, but the last three days I’ve sadly seen two of them dead in the road(hit by cars). Bummer–they’re cute little guys.
That is a poisonous snake with a triangular head. This snake is a diamond-back rattlesnake, NOT a water moccasin; mocassins are uniformly black or dark charcoal gray. I grew up on a lake and know moccasins well. They are very mean and aggressive when riled.
I find those snakes in my hen houses and I still think they are rat snakes. Google rat snakes.
None of this explains how the snake got onto the car’s hood. Someone either would’ve had to put the snake there, or they drove the car into the water so that it could slither up onto the hood. And that snake had a definite diamond pattern in its markings. There were no rattles that I could see, so it wasn’t a rattler, and it could very well have been a rat snake.