There Really ARE Snakes on a Plane!

[Ryan Ruck]

There really are " snakes on a plane!"



Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he discovered a stowaway peeking out at him from the plane's instrument panel — a 4 1/2-foot black snake.

Coles had left Charleston earlier for a leisurely flight over the West Virginia countryside last Saturday in his Piper Cherokee and was preparing to land in Gallipolis, Ohio, when the snake revealed itself.

"Nothing in any of the manuals ever described anything like this," the 62-year-old Cross Lanes resident said. But the advice given 25 years earlier from his flight instructor immediately came to mind: "No matter what happens, fly the plane."

An attempt to swat the snake only resulted in it falling to Coles' feet under the rudder pedals. It then darted to the other side of the cockpit.

While maintaining control of the single-engine plane with one hand, Coles grabbed the reptile behind its head with his other.

"There was no way I was letting that thing go. It coiled all around my arm, and its tail grabbed hold of a lever on the floor and started pulling," Coles said.

The next step was to radio for emergency landing clearance.

"They came back and asked what my problem was. I told them I had one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane. They cleared me in."

(Honestly, I am really surprised that with the release of Jackson's movie they didn't tell him to STFU! LOL!)

After a smooth landing, Coles posed for pictures with the snake, then let it loose.

"That snake resides in Ohio now," he said. "I wasn't about to bring it home. I don't mind snakes, but I sure like to know where they are."

Coles said he was lucky his usual travel companions, his wife and dachshund, were not on the flight.

"If my wife had been in the plane, I wouldn't have a wife, a plane or myself," Coles said. "I don't know what might have happened if Killer had been in the plane, but it sure would have been a lot more exciting."

[Malsua]

And Snakes in a Theatre

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http://www.999today.com/entertainmen...tory/3527.html

Rattlesnakes released at US cinema

23 Aug 2006

Nick Gibbens

Sick pranksters have released two diamondback rattlesnakes at a Phoenix cinema during a screening of Samuel L Jackson's airborne thriller Snakes on a Plane, US movie chain AMC Entertainment has said.



"One was found in the parking lot during the show, and the other in the movie theatre," AMC spokeswoman Melanie Bell said.
"They were both removed, and no-one was harmed."


She said the snakes were later released in the desert.
Snakes on a Plane, which also stars Rachel Blanchard and Sunny Mabrey, topped the US box office chart on its opening weekend.


The film generated $15.3m in its opening four days, according to figures from box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.


Russ Johnson, president of the Phoenix Herpetological Society, told Reuters news agency: "There were kids at the show, and it was actually very reckless.


"The snakes' bite carries a powerful venom that could have seriously injured someone."


The diamondback rattlesnake, common throughout North America, is one of the world's most dangerous snakes.


A member of the pit viper family, the venomous, six- to eight-foot-long diamondback is native to the south-western US desert.
They feed primarily on frogs, rodents, rabbits, lizards, and birds, all of which it can swallow whole.


Snakes on a Plane sees Jackson play an FBI agent who is escorting an eyewitness to a murder on a flight over the Pacific Ocean.
On board, an assassin, bent on killing the eyewitness, lets loose a crate full of poisonous snakes.


The practical jokers responsible for the sick prank haven't yet been caught.

[American Patriot]

I hope they catch the guys that let the snake loose in the theater.

I know several people who would ha dropped dead just at the sight of them. Let alone being bitten.

Why do people have to do such dangerous pranks?