What would you do if you opened up a box with a live Python snake in it?

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Python is accidentally shipped to N.J.
Dec 14, 2004 (CLIFTON, N.J.) — The story of Paco the Python is a serpentine tale of a pet snake accidentally shipped from Missouri to New Jersey in a box with a DVD player being sent for repairs.

Paco is currently basking in an 85-degree cage at an NJ Pets store in Clifton; he'll be shipped back home to Missouri in temperature-controlled comfort.

Sheila Himmerick, who had bought Paco as a gift for her teenage son, Rusty, was thrilled to find out he was alive. She said pythons don't like the cold.

Himmerick and 17-year-old son were at home in Jefferson City, Missouri, and couldn't get their get their new DVD player to work. They called the maker, Samsung, and shipped the player to the company's return center in Secaucus, New Jersey late last month.

Paco, a three-foot, four-pound ball python with brown and yellow markings, apparently slithered into the box, and hid beneath the foam peanuts the DVD player was packed in.

Himmerick got a call from Samsung's New Jersey repair shop, CVE Incorporated. She said someone there asked whether that was her snake in the DVD box, and was that her way of expressing her customer dissatisfaction.

A woman who answered the phone at CVE said the company had no comment on the incident.

Secaucus Town Animal Warden Kevin Kessler, who was called to handle the python, said Paco was a bit listless but unharmed, and that no charges were filed. Kessler said "things like this do happen."

:scared: :scared: O8)

[SlackJawedYokel]

1. Screamed like a little girl?

Cletus

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3. I would die

I have a royal box opener at my house. My Dad has dementia and he doesn't bother reading the names on envelopes or boxes he opens up everything.

[Solly Mack]

2. I love snakes.

I'm glad the snake was OK.

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5. I am afraid of them

I wouldn't have wanted anything to have happened to him either.

[Solly Mack]

9. I was on my 3rd case of poison oak when my childhood doctor

told my mother to find me a new hobby...I would hunt for snakes in the woods.

She tried to keep me out of the woods. :)

[Karenina]

18. Snakes are cool!

As a kid I would terrify the boys in the neighborhood with them if they crossed me. Nothing like a 2 ft. black snake to establish a balance of power. :evilgrin:

My little sister "wore" her pet ribbon snakes at college. "What a pretty braceleeerrrraaAAAAAAGGGGGHHH!!! IT'S ALIVE!!!!"

[Solly Mack]

19. I would have dearly loved to have seen people's faces

with the bracelet. lol

Boys did tend to behave nicer when a snake was around, didn't they?
lol

[Karenina]

24. Frohes Fest, Solly!

:hi:

[Solly Mack]

25. Happy Holidays to you too!!!

I'm trying...

[Mike Niendorff]

4. step 1 : close the box.

MDN

[atommom]

6. Poor snake. He just wanted a nice cozy place to rest! nt

[0007]

7. Take it on the 'Arthur Duffy' to the 'Near and Far' for a drink of

of 'Gay and Frisky'

[ernstbass]

8. I would pee in my pants

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11. My Sister took me to see Alice Copper when I was a kid

I didn't want to wear my classes because I thought that I would look like a dork so I took them off. Alice aka Vincent bent down on the stage and handed me a baby snake and my Sister pulled my hand back before he tried to put it in my hand. I would have pooped and peed on myself it it would have placed in my hand. :scared: :scared:

[htuttle]

10. I'd drop a 16 ton weight on it

[TreasonousBastard]

12. I'm rather surprised...

that the honchos at Samsung didn't eat it.

[DS1]

13. and eat their own?

Hey, you set it up

[TreasonousBastard]

22. Laugh if you must...

but thanks in part to Samsung, the area around Ft. Lee (now known as Fat Ree) has some of the best Korean restaurants in the country.

(Snake is not on the English menus)

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14. I thought that a stuffed python was something that they sell at Disney

Oh no it isn't. :scared:

I had a Professor who brought pictures in of a stuffed python that someone served at a banquet in Asia :puke:

[TreasonousBastard]

21. I'm sure it tasted like chicken.

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27. Why does everything taste like Chicken?

Why not Cornish game hen or turkey? :shrug:

[davsand]

15. Coolness! A gift!!!!

Pythons are constrictors. If I found one in a box (especially at that size) I'd probably have a second of being startled, but then would be OK with it. I might have to see if I could scare up a pinky or two to make sure the cat was safe, however.

Now, if I found a REALLY big python I'd be yelling for an expert to come get it. The really big boys scare hell out of me because I know how dangerous they can be. I've workd to teach my kid about snakes (all reptiles, atually) so that she'll not be afraid of them but still respect them later.

My seven year old helped hold a giant gold Burmese python a few years ago at a zoo in Naples Florida. It was a lovely snake--and it was huge at about 12 or 13 feet. Here it is with adults holding it:



Now,imagine watching a bunch of little kids holding it... The zoo made sure that an adult had control of the head and tail so nobody could get squeezed, but it was still kind of unnerving to see my "baby" (about 4 years old) anywhere near a snake that big.

I want her to not be afraid of reptiles, which involves contact and education. Reptiles are pretty cool creature, but you really have got to know what you are doing. You also need to know how to identify the ones that are safe to handle. I also want her to understand just what they can do, and holding something THAT big probably drove the point home.


Laura

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17. When I was a kid

The news reported that a man in Adelaide had been found under a tree and a king brown or python had swallowed him up to his chest and they had to shoot the man was screaming :scared:

I don't believe that story now because the snake would have swallowed him from the head down :scared:

[hatrack]

16. Head to the pet shop for some live mice

Yum!

[ret5hd]

20. Name him Monty, of course.

[Vidar]

26. LOL.

[leftofthedial]

23. start speaking in tongues

hallelujah