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2003 Reader Submission
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'Drink-driver' had snake in trousers
German police pulled over a suspected drink driver only to find he had a snake in his trousers.
The 21-year-old man was spotted zig-zagging along a road in Goettingen.
He was on his way to the vet when his 5ft pet adder escaped from its cage and crawled up his trouser leg.
"I was so shocked I lost control of the wheel for a minute and swerved," he told police, according to German daily Bild.
The officers helped the man to free the harmless snake from his pants. The man was released without charge.
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Perhaps I am weird but I find the idea of trying to drive with a snake climbing up ones trouser leg highly amusing and very much in the spirit of the Darwin award. Whatever the snake was it certainly wasn't a European Adder as they seldom grow beyond 80cm and while seldom fatal they are venemous and can inflict a painful bite, but reporters frequently overstate the size of snakes - and this is a translation
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Submitted on 03/01/02
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