I messed up big time with my baby bp

[Lizardlicks]

I keep hoping I'm reading this wrong because it sounds like not only was OP being irresponsible with their pet, they were being irresponsible on the road, and playing with their snake while driving.

If that's the case, I'm grateful the only thing that ended up dead was the snake.

If that seems like an over reaction, let me tell you about my day job: I am a third party liability claims reimbursement specialist. I work for hospitals all over the US. When a patient in one of our hospitals has been in an accident, I go to work figuring out who is responsible, seeing what insurances are available, if any, and working to bill them so our patients don't end up having to foot the bill themselves. The things I look at all day are ER bills and police reports.

Average single visit minimum ER bill is $1500 to $3000. That's for if nothing is wrong with you and the doc throws pain pills at you, pats your head, and sends you on your way.

I have worked accounts worth over a combined one and a half million dollars for a single accident. That's not even the highest we've had, just one I have personally touched.

(You might be happy to know everyone in that accident lived! You might be less happy to know that they were all young people who are now on permanent disability for the rest of their lives, including one person who ended up in a care facility to try to recover from brain damage. They were hit by a drunk driver at a 4 way stop.)

By far, the worst accident always involve drunk and/or distracted drivers. That has included things like, fiddling with the radio, looking down suddenly for something dropped, looking at a text. Quite often those accidents have a body count. So please, for the love of god, if you get a new animal, even just a puppy or a kitty, only ever transport it in a vehicle while it's properly secured in an appropriate carrier. I don't need the next police report I read to say the at fault party was distracted by playing with their pet ball python.