Witnessed a terrible incident today, I need cheering up.

[angllady2]

So I was driving home from work today, it's kind of cool and pretty breezy, so I was rather surprised to spot a snake of some kind in the road near my home.

I slowed down to see where it was headed, when another car heading the opposite direction came around the corner. This car also spotted the snake, and deliberately swerved into my lane to hit it.

Fortunately I was already nearly at a stop, or I would have been hit as well. The car was going so fast, the poor snake rebounded a foot off the road after the front tire hit it, then the back one hit it too. The car then swerved back into it's lane, barely missing me and laying on the horn at me the whole time.

I hit my flashers and got out, I was hoping against hope that perhaps the car had gotten it's tail and it might be saved. It was writhing in the middle of the center stripe, but when I got closer I could see the head was crushed.

It stopped moving very quickly, and I pray it died instantly and never even knew what happened. I couldn't bear to leave it there to be run over again, even though it was already dead. So I found a stick on the side of the road, gently picked up the body and let it fall down into the creek along side the road.

I was crying by the time I got back to my car. How could someone be so cruel ?

I don't even know what species it was. Just a cornsnake sized animal, greyish brown with reddish stripes.

Poor thing.

Gale