NOPE.
In case you didn’t know, Florida is quite the wild place. Sure, the state boasts beautiful beaches and Disney World, among other things… but it also has a bit of a snake problem. And it’s not a little snake problem, it’s a big, BIG snake problem. We’re talking pythons on the loose, and apparently crawling into people’s cars.
The snakes can grow up to 20 feet long, and fully grown pythons can typically weigh in at around 200 (they can eat pretty much anything that their bodies will fit around). Florida just so happens to be the perfect place for them to thrive… yet they aren’t native to the area, so with mature pythons having little to no natural predators in the area, they’ve greatly disrupted the natural environment.
Across decades, the state of Florida has tried to rid the pythons from places like the Florida Everglades. And though they’ve successfully removed around 20,000 of the invasive species from the Florida swampland since 2006, the state is still losing the battle. Burmese pythons are quite reclusive, and females can lay 50 to 100 eggs at one time… so it’s tough to get a total count on the invasive species’ population.
But it’s believed to be somewhere around 300,000 to 1,000,000 (wide range, I know).
And we know at least one of those pythons was recently in Homestead, Florida. An absolutely terrifying, nightmare-inducing, sickening, disturbing, spooky video out of the city shows someone in a drive thru line capturing a video of a python crawling into the car that’s in front of them in line.
The man behind the car in the middle of living out a scene from a horror movie yelled at the driver ahead of him, alerting them that the large snake had just slithered up into the car. It’s just one of those things that Floridians have to be aware of, I suppose? FOX35 Orlando shared the video with the caption:
“A driver in Homestead, Florida had an unexpected encounter when a snake crawled underneath their car while waiting at a Pollo Tropical drive-thru.”
Yeah… I’d light my car on fire and walk away from it like I was an action hero. I’m sure the insurance company would understand.
Fortunately, the python apparently fell out of the car once the vehicle got back into motion. But I don’t think I would have been brave enough to see if that would fix the problem. Someone tells me there’s a big python crawling up into my car? I’m abandoning ship before they even finish their sentence.
And it looks like social media is in agreement with me on this one:
“He can have the whole car.”
“I’d drive straight to the nearest CarMax and yeet that vehicle out of my life.”
“New Fear UNLOCKED.”
“I’d be coming up out of the sunroof.”
“I wish I had never seen this.”
“Reason why I’m always mindful of where I park in Florida and I stay checking my car before I get in.”
Sounds like an awful way to live… at least you are close to the beach though?
