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She’s had it with the snake in this van.
Julie Weber was given quite the surprise last week when she picked up her vehicle from a local Georgia dealership following nearly a month of work on the van.
The mother and Lilburn-native noticed nearly three-feet of snake skin on the passenger seat before she left the lot, but hours later while driving to South Carolina she discovered the non-venomous reptile was still alive and in the vehicle, hanging out in its ventilation system.
“It was horrible,” she told FOX 5 Atlanta. “I knew what it was. I have three sons. I'm a Cub Scout leader.”
Weber was able to identify the snakeskin almost immediately and told the employees at the dealership about it, to which they said “Well, we saw that and thought it belonged to you.”
Then, after driving less than 30 miles in the fixed van, Weber saw the snake slithering around behind her.
At one point Weber called the police, but neither were able to locate the snake.
(Fox 5 Atlanta)
“I see out of the corner of my eye against the black interior a bright orange snake,” she said. “It's making its way between the seat and the passenger side of the door.”
The scare led to Weber pulling over, getting out of the van and calling the police.
But once she hung up and began posting about the situation on social media under the hashtag #snakegate, Weber once again couldn’t locate it.
“I'm getting braver while I am waiting and I look under the seat and I don't see it anywhere and that's when I started to cry because I thought someone is going to show up,” she said. “We can't find the snake and they can't get the snake.”
The cop was not able to locate the snake either, so Weber was forced to drive home.
It made another appearance, poking its head out of the passenger side air conditioning vent, once she got home.
Thankfully, one of her child’s bus drivers ended the ordeal the next day when he opened the door to check and the reptile was hanging out on the floor in plain sight.