8 times Mainers freaked out over snakes

Did you ever watch that terrible (and yet so awesome) movie, “Snakes on A Plane“? Mainers need to adopt the Samuel L. Jackson bad-to-the-bone attitude when it comes to snakes, because if you’re looking at the news this week, then you can see that chatter about snakes is seemingly everywhere.

Check out these eight times that snakes made it in the news and freaked out Mainers.

1) That time when folks in Westbrook had a Burmese python – or was it a boa constrictor – or a rat snake(?) on the loose and it totally freaked everyone out.

William Warby | Flickr

William Warby | Flickr

2) That time a Biddeford police officer had to call a game warden to wrangle a three-foot python.

Winifred Boucher

Winifred Boucher

3) That time a couple in Veazie found a three-foot snake in THEIR SHOWER. Do you have the creeps yet? Because I do now.

Courtesy of Ashley Harnden

Courtesy of Ashley Harnden

4) That time a woman in Fairfield found a python hanging out in her apartment like it was NBD.

Courtesy of Mary Bradstreet

Courtesy of Mary Bradstreet

5) That time a 71-year-old man fell into a snake-filled well. People, I cannot make this stuff up.

6) This intense story by a 90-year-old World War II veteran from Maine who told the story of that time his plane crashed into snake-filled waters. At one point, a sailor took out a .38 to shoot down a venomous sea snake.

Brian Swartz | BDN

Brian Swartz | BDN

7) That time residents in Rumford reported seeing a 17-foot “monster snake” in the Rumford Canal.

Just kidding, we found this picture on the Internet.

Just kidding, we found this picture on the Internet.

8) That time an 80-pound snake was seized from a Biddeford apartment. WHAT?!

And that, ladies and gentleman, is why we need Samuel L. Jackon to show us how to deal with snakes: