A New York resident crashed a U-Haul van in Manhattan after finding a live snake under his seat, per the NY Post. Jared was on his way back to his apartment in Brooklyn with his roommate after purchasing a sofa from Facebook Marketplace when he suddenly spotted the reptile.
Initially mistaking the snake for a large
“toy,”
Jared reached down to pick it up and realized it was alive.
“Maybe someone left their toy snake in the car? So I reached down to pick it up, like what’s this?”
Jared told the outlet.
“It was warm and heavy. Then it turned its head and looked at me,”
he added.
Frightened by their discovery, Jared and his roommate panicked and started yelling,
“Oh, f–k,”
he said.
“There wasn’t a lot of coherent thought at this point. I hate snakes. I freaked out. I took my foot off the brake and crashed into the car in front of us,”
Jared said.
The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Canal Street and Broadway.
“I put the car in park, and we had our feet up on the seat. At first, I thought to chuck it out of the window, to get it out of the car, but then I realized we were in Manhattan, there is nowhere for me to really put it. There are pedestrians everywhere,”
he recalled.
At first two female officers arrived at the scene but
“didn’t want anything to do with”
the snake, Jared said. Animal control officers were called to the scene and they had to search the van in order to locate the snake. After locating the reptile, they placed it in a large, white bag before removing it from the vehicle.
“U-Hauls are used for many things. I would have no clue how the snake got there. Obviously, I’m surprised,”
a U-Haul employee told The Post.
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