Snakes on a Bus
Oct. 19 (Philadelphia) --An escaped four-foot snake slithering loose on a SEPTA bus caused a minor panic among passengers Sunday and prompted an emergency evacuation in West Philadelphia, according to transit authority officials.
A SEPTA spokesman said that a rider boarded the Route 52 bus just before 3 p.m. with the animal draped around his neck and hidden under his jacket.
Somewhere along the route the snake escaped and coiled itself in a compartment under a seat.
The driver pulled over near the intersection of 52nd Street and Westminster Avenue to evacuate the bus' passengers. A SEPTA mechanic was later able to retrieve the animal after an hour and return it to its owner by dismantling part of the seat, transit authority spokesman Andrew Busch said.
"There was surely some excitement and some alarm among some folks upon seeing the snake and it getting away from the owner," he said. ...............(more)
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