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Woman Discovers Eight Foot Python In Her Driveway

Let me be very clear if I haven’t been before:  I hate snakes.  All of them.   And don’t bother with the whole “good snake/bad snake” thing.  The Good Book doesn’t…

Burmese Python
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Let me be very clear if I haven't been before:  I hate snakes.  All of them.   And don't bother with the whole "good snake/bad snake" thing.  The Good Book doesn't differentiate.  They are the root of all evil.  And there's no changing my stance on this.  If it's good enough for Indiana Jones, it's good enough for me.

That all being said, I cannot even begin to tell you about the panic in my soul if I'd have had the experience this woman did.  Francis Hughes just came out of her Long Island house and thought someone, a neighbor perhaps, had inadvertently left a garden hose on her driveway.  No, turns out it was an 8-foot Burmese Python that took two people to wrangle.  No word on if Francis plans to do what I would and immediately put the home on the market and move away!

Charlie Nance is the Afternoon Drive co-host (along with his wife) of "The Charlie and Debbie Show" at WSOC, Country 1037 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The couple have been with the radio station since 2006. Charlie has won the prestigious CMA (Country Music Association) Award for Radio Personality of the Year and has been a finalist for the Country Radio Hall of Fame four times. Prior to his time in Charlotte, Charlie (along with Debbie) spent more than a decade hosting successful morning radio shows in Greenville, SC; Augusta, Ga; and Birmingham, Al. As a content creator for Country 1037, Charlie writes about dream lottery windfalls, sports, restaurants and bars, and travel experiences in North and South Carolina.