Snakes on a Plane, in the Mail, Riding a Bike…

Posted: May 15, 2007

This is disturbing.  In South Africa, inspectors found poisonous snakes being smuggled in the mail hidden in video cassette tapes.   I have a thing about snakes.  I don’t like them, I just don’t trust how they move.  Add to that the fact that when I was working on the Animal Planet Expo Tour I learned from Dr. Kevin that snakes can’t be tamed.  There’s no such thing as a tame snake.  They only get used to being handled and basically tolerate it.  Which is why you occasionally hear about the house pet python suddenly and without warning strangling the 4 year old or something.

See, this is disturbing because occasionally I get the neighbor’s mail.  Sometimes the post office decides to deliver the mail addressed for 1234 to 1232 instead.  So what if Mr. Livesat1234 orders some smuggled spitting cobras or something, and they decide after a long plane ride over the ocean, not even first class and with only a package of peanuts, that they’re getting hungry and can’t wait to arrive at 1234 but would like to step outside for a bit and suddenly my 3 cats are gone and I’m in the hospital.  Tragedy.  Isa loves those cats.