In the worst kind of daymare (derived from nightmare), a woman in Maine had her heart in her mouth when she found a humongous snake crawling out of her washer. The crawler was identified as a non-poisonous python and had sneaked through water pipes to reach the washer. It is believed that the snake might have made its way after the rinse cycle.
The woman, Mara Ranger started unloading clothes from her washer and soon after taking out her blue jeans, she reached back into the load and felt something move.
“I jumped back and all of sudden its head starts coming out of the washing machine and it looked huge,” Ranger told WMTW-TV.
Ranger had the presence of mind to close the lid and call for help.
Maine Animal Damage Control’s Richard Burton reached into the machine wearing a pair of welding gloves, and was shocked to pull out a 8-foot snake. He was expecting something smaller.
Several theories were cropped up on how the snake ended up in the washing machine, but with none substantiating, it still remains a mystery. Burton guessed it was somebody’s pet and that the owner ended up tossing it out into the wild when it got too big. It then made its way through the water pipes and into the washing machine, probably after the load was done, he said.
Life for Ranger will never be the same again after this horrific experience. She might call it ‘brush with death’.
“Now that it’s gone, I’m going to be checking crevasses and corners,” Ranger said. “I’m going to be looking in the tub first — before and after, maybe even during, the rinse cycle.”
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