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A New Yorker crashed a rented U-Haul van he was using to transport a sofa when he discovered a live snake under his seat as he drove♋ acro🦄ss Manhattan Saturday afternoon.
Jared, who only wanted to use his last name, was driv✃ing through Soho back to his apartment in downtown Brooklyn with his roommate after they picked up a sofa they found on Facebo𝓡ok Marketplace in New Jersey.
The 25-year-old trader was driving the van at the intersection of Canal Street and Broadway when he looked down and noticed what he thought was a “big” “toy” snake at his roommate’s feet.
“Maybe someone left their toy snake in the car? So I reached down to pick it up, like what’s this?” Jared told The Post.
Jared realized the slithering snake — white with yellow stripes and about 3 and a half feet long — was actually a live reptile.
“It was warm and heavy. Then it turned its head and looked at me,” Jared said.
Jared and his roommate freaked out and started yelling, “Oh, f–k,” he said.
“There wasn’t a lot of coherent thought at this point. I hate snakes. I freaked out. I took my foot off the brake and crashed into the car in front of us,” Jared said.
After he crashed the U-Haul♌ into the car in front of them, the two roommates still had to deal with the live sn𝓡ake in the truck.
“I put the car in park, and we had our feet up on the seat. At first, I thought to chuck it out of the window, to get it out of the car, but then I realized we were in Manhattan, there is nowhere for me to really put it. There are pedestrians everywhere,” he recalled.
Two responding female officers “didn’t want anything to do with” the snake, Jared said.
Animal control officers eventually arrived and searched the van for the snake before hauling it off in a big, white bag, he sa♋id.
Jared doesn’t think the snake came from the sofa they bought.
“We took the couch apart to p🎃ut it in the truck, so I know there was no snake in the couch,” he said.
A Post reporter contacted the U-Haul location in the Bronไx where Jared rented the truck. A man who refused to give his name answered the phone, but confirmed he reported his harrowing find.
“U-Hauls are used for many things. I would have no clue how the snake got there. Obviously, I’m surprised,” the worker told The Post.
Jared is just grateful no one was seriously inj𒈔u🌄red.
“Holy s–t, what a crazy misfortune. I am so sorry to the girls for hitting their car. I am grateful no one was hurt. It could have been a lot worse.”
