Archive

Actual Snake on a Plane

flight from hell

Reptile hidden in a takeout box

cheats/2013/10/31/actual-snake-on-a-plane/131031-snakes-plane-cheat_hbbgfu
Lennart Preiss/dap, via AP

How Halloween-appropriate. Passengers on an EasyJet flight from Israel to England were confronted with an actual snake on a plane after a passenger had sneaked it past security in a “small takeaway box.” Travelers only realized mid-way through the flight and quickly tweeted the news as soon as they landed: “No Samuel L, but an actual snake on a plane. Police about to meet @easyjet arriving from Tel Aviv to Luton,” wrote one passenger. The eccentric man who brought the serpent was arrested upon arrival. A spokesman for the budget British airline has emphasized that “the non-poisonous snake remained in its container at all times and passengers were not in any danger.” Samuel L. Jackson, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen.

Read it at Metro UK

Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.