Posted on 10/04/2019 7:37:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A Florida man who took apart his clothes dryer when it stopped working made a shocking discovery in the lint exhaust -- a snake.
Bruce Wiley said the dryer at his Winter Park home stopped working, so he started taking it apart in an attempt to identify the cause of the malfunction.
Wiley said he felt something moving when he reached into the lint exhaust and took a closer look to find a trapped snake.
He said the snake, which appeared to have minor injuries, pulled itself free after a few minutes and slithered out of his home through the open exhaust vent.
Wiley said he found the flap on the vent exhaust outside his home stuck open, giving the snake its apparent entry spot.
These horrible headlines are terrifying. Women can’t take it. We keep homes and cannot take wildlife in our homes. We are hard wired for it.
This headline will haunt me.
I think I’ll check the flap.
Black snakes are good....they eat rattlers, copperheads and rodents.....
However, if you have several around the house, that usually means you have an infestation problem since the black snake follows it’s food source.....
I helped a friend of mine repair his dryer we found a dead iguana in the fan.
My wife was folding towels out of the dryer once and started to put on in the linen cabinet and felt something ‘lumpy’.
Thinking it was a misplaced roll of TP or something, she grabbed it and unfolded the towel and there was a POSSUM hissing at her!.................
Oh heck no! My laundry days would be DONE!!
EWWWWWWW!...............................
Good that nobody got injured.
First day of my retirement, I decided to do some heavy duty housecleaning. Pulled the washer and dryer out and cleaned behind them. Pulled the lint hose off and reached in to remove the glob of lint in the ‘s’ curve...there was a petrified snake coiled up amongst the lint. Our dryer vents out through the roof of a 2 story house. He came in through the roof. I’m more cautious now.
Florida man is a friend to animals!
i live in WP. there are tons of black racers. they are great snakes to have around
It would be a better story if he took apart a Snake and found a Clothes Dryer.
My question, why is this even a story? The Snake crawled through a outside opening and ended up caught in the Exhaust Fan.
If he named the Snake Adam Schiff, then we would have a Story.
I assume things like this happen a lot living in the South.
Every few years we have a small snake slither in through the back patio glass doors. One time it was a small rattlesnake that I had to take care of with a shovel in the kitchen. Wife always seems to find them and fortunately I have been around to deal with them.
Good for him, freeing the snake. It’s a Black Rat Snake, one of the best critters you, I, or anybody can have on their property. All they do is eat rats, mice, and other vermin. Indeed, several years ago, I had a couple of immature rat snakes get caught in some landscape netting, got down on the ground, and carefully freed them.
Of course, if we turned the clock back about 60 years and you were my poor, long suffering mother, you’d be really horrified when you saw me walking around in a tee shirt full of live garter snakes. One of our next door neighbor’s favorite memories of mom is her standing on the back porch, with a totally sick look on her face, carefully turning the pockets of my jeans out at arms’ length. If I’d have found that snake, I’d have proudly returned home with it unharmed, alive, and hanging around my neck.
Have a nice day. Yes, I know, I have the evil mind of a spotted adder.
"How cottonmouths got their name."
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That Florida Man...what does he NOT do?
Oh. Thank you for sharing
Ugh
Men love to share this stuff. But really we cannot share our domicile with wildlife. It’s primal
I saw a snake out back one time ran in to tell hub. He said , “oh!! Can I see it?”
So glad men can manage the critters. Yay
How did I know...
When I was a small child, back in the 60’s, in Mississippi, I ran into the house to tell my grandfather there was a snake by the woodpile and garden.
He said, “Leave it alone. That’s where he lives.”..................
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