Earlier this month, LeAnna Binkley was driving her son to baseball practice when their quiet commute took an unexpected — and slithery — turn.
“We’d only been driving about a mile when my son suddenly shouted, ‘Mom! Look at that snake!’” Binkley told The Dodo. “He spotted it slithering between the windshield wipers before it disappeared back under the hood.”
Startled but curious, Binkley checked under the hood once they arrived at practice. The snake was nowhere to be found. Hoping it had left, she left the hood open for a while, just to be safe.
“Two hours passed,” Binkley said. “Still no sign of the snake.”
Relieved, she and her son started the drive home — until the uninvited guest made another grand entrance.
“Out it pops and looks around!” she said. “It was MUCH bigger and longer than I had imagined.”
Panicked, Binkley pulled over and tried to get help from a nearby passerby. But the snake had other plans, disappearing deeper into the engine once again.
“We were both screaming and swerving,” Binkley said. “It was chaos!”
Somehow, they made it home safely. That night, Binkley left her car parked outside with the hood open, hoping the snake would take the hint.
But the next morning at work, her coworker walked in with news: “There’s a snake on your car.”
Sure enough, there it was — back again, slithering on the vehicle like it owned it.
This time, Binkley had backup. A group of coworkers joined the removal effort, and eventually, one brave soul gently picked up the snake and relocated it to a safe spot.
Finally, the little hitchhiker was off the car and back where it belonged — on solid ground.
“It hasn’t been seen since!” Binkley said. “I was so relieved it was finally removed.”
Thankfully, no one — human or reptile — was hurt, and the unexpected carpool story now has a happy ending.
“Everyone lived to tell the tale,” Binkley said. “Even the snake!”
