I’ll avoid the obvious jokes about Samuel L. Jackson’s movie Snakes on A Plane, but for a family from the Memphis, Tennessee area a drive turned into an adventure worthy of an episode on Animal Planet.

Cruising down the road at 65 mph, Rachel and Tony Fisher and their three children were surprised by an unusual stowaway in a situation similar to the Quantas flight that was forced to make an emergency landing. A two-and-a-half foot long rat snake (no, not the Bronx Zoo Cobra)  slithered out from under their car’s hood and then rode along with them for the next two minutes. Rachel, who was driving the car, was much calmer than her husband, but neither of them considered pulling off to the side of the highway to let the snake slither off.

I’ll admit I’ve never dealth with a reptile cruising along with me, but I have had an amphibian hitch a ride. It’s true. Late for work one “dark and stormy night“, I was cruising along trying to make up time through a low-lying area where it was common to see frogs hopping around on rainy night. Granted, it was not a frog horde, but I did have a frog hop across the road, hit the hood of my car and land “splat” across my windshield. Startled, but probably not as much as my four-legged hitchhiker, I hit the windshield wipers. The wiper blades pushed the frog off the glass, but from there it landed on my side mirror. The frog rode about five miles with me before my next stop, where it slid off. And I got to work on time with a tale to tell, even if it wasn’t quite as dramatic as the Fisher’s serpentine story.

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Commissioner Roger Goodell gathered 32 NFL owners for one big question.  One of the league’s most wanderlust-stricken franchises is looking to move again.  The Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders, tired of gutting it out in a run-down stadium, were once again looking for greener pastures.  Only the Miami Dolphins refused to cooperate.  With a vote of 31-1, […]

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Ben Affleck, no matter what you might think of him, is a talented actor and director.  He’s got the goods, but he’s smart enough to know when he’s in over his head.  All along, since he took on the mantle of Batman, he’s had his eyes on writing, directing, and starring as the Caped Crusader. […]

In May, students for the for-profit American College of Education were running into some problems.  Their access to email accounts and course information was locked down by Google, who had disabled their accounts.  The reason why?  A fired IT worker for the American College of Education locked the school out of their Google cloud account. […]