Large boa constrictor found hopelessly stuck in car’s dashboard in North Carolina

[Gocntry]

Guess he thought the dash was a nice warm hide.....

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/ne...248971780.html

[nikkubus]

Oh goodness. This gives me flashbacks of when I was a kid and my kitten got stuck in the dash on the way home form the breeder. That was quite a process to get him out, my poor dad. I can't imagine travelling with a snake loose in the car.

[bcr229]

I cringe when I see pictures of people holding snakes and showing them off while in their cars. A snake should be transported doubly-secured in a bag which is placed in a bin, because there are way too many nooks and crannies where a snake can disappear. Dashboards are especially enticing because they are often warm.

As an FYI we did have an incident where one of our bigger retic females was coming home from the vet, and we didn't have a bag big enough for her. At some point she decided she didn't want to stay in the VE-175 Christmas tree tub any more, so she pushed the lid off, breaking two latches in the process, and spent the last half the drive home looking out the back passenger window of the Suburban - which gave passing motorists quite a shock.

[Bogertophis]

I'm so glad they got this snake safely out of the dashboard of the car...but it sounds like he never made it to his needed vet appointment?

I agree, there's no room for error (no room for insufficiently secured containers) when "driving Miss Daisy".

I once saw someone driving near a CA freeway with their snake wrapped deliberately on their steering wheel to show off. I've also heard of an accident caused exactly this way... Besides the huge distraction, if the snake decides to grab something else, you can quickly lose the ability to steer the car. Snakes make lousy drivers. And not very good dashboard mechanics either, lol.