Kicker: An unexpected passenger

NICK EICHER, HOST: Forget snakes in the plane. You need to worry about snakes in the lane the fast lane, that is.

Down in Australia, a woman was heading down the freeway when she felt something on her leg. Somehow she held it together enough to weave through traffic, pull over, and leap out of the car so fast she left her shoe behind.

She flagged down some help and police realized they needed a specialist: snake catcher Tim Nanninga who sniffed out the venomous tiger snake, and knew just how to charm that charmless reptile.

This is audio from talk radio 3AW Melbourne:

NANNINGA: I was pretty lucky, actually. I had an old Barry White CD, so we had the keys to the car. We put it on and calmed the snake down and crawled towards the back.

Must’ve been a girl snake.

WHITE: My voice is extremely low. It’s different from a lot of other guys in the world.

Baby, it didn’t take / my all of my life / to find you /

Works every single time.

o, oh, babe /

Barry White, snake charmer.

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