Snake shock for Gautrain user

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A snake has caused three days of uproar at the Gautrain Midrand station.

Brian Mabasa parked his BMW coupe at the station on Tuesday and left for work. On his return, he found police, a snake handler and security guards surrounding his car.

A snake had been spotted by guards on the parking lot and when they gave chase, it hid itself underneath the chassis of Mabasa’s car.

“We tried everything short of stripping the car or setting it alight to get the snake out. We then resorted, with the help of the police, to pepper spray and that did not work either,” said Andre Prins, a "problem animal handler" who was called to the remove the snake.

After initially being mistaken as a black mamba, Prins identified the reptile as a one-metre long rinkhals (spitting cobra), which is common but venomous.

After hours of failed efforts to remove the snake, until 8.30pm that night, it was decided to leave the car to let the reptile slink off by itself.

Prins said, “We have good reason to believe that the snake has by now left the car”.

But Mabasa is not willing to move his car as no one has confirmed seeing the snake exit.

When The Times visited the station yesterday, two security guards were keeping an eye on the car.

“I am not convinced that the snake is gone. Yesterday [Wednesday], when they called me they said they had seen the snake again,” Mabasa said.

Gautrain executive, Errol Braithwaite, said: “The Gautrain is able to confirm reports that a legless intruder of indeterminate sex gained unauthorised access to the the Midrand station parking area from the adjacent veld earlier this week. The intruder was seen to proceed to a parked vehicle and, according to reports, succeeded in hiding him/herself in the body of the vehicle in an apparent attempt to stowaway. The vehicle was surrounded by security staff who, having failed to pursuade the intruder to leave, have quarantined the vehicle”.

“Specialist negotiators were brought in from the SPCA but the standoff continues.”

Braithwaite said he “condemned the actions of this ’slippery’ customer in the strongest terms”.

“Once apprehended, we shall hand him/her over to the nearest snake farm where we trust that the scales of justice will tilt heavily and the incarceration will be long.”

For now, Mabasa says he is using his other vehicle until he is 100% sure there is no snake in his car.
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2014/02/21/snake-shock-for-gautrain-user
 
Love the "official statement" from Braithwaite.
 
Snakes in Gauteeeeeng!

Kiss your Beamer goodbyyyyyyyyyyye! Not gonna make it out alive.
Beamer goodbyyyyyye! I can see the terror in your eyes!
 
“We tried everything short of stripping the car or setting it alight to get the snake out. We then resorted, with the help of the police, to pepper spray and that did not work either,” said Andre Prins, a "problem animal handler" who was called to the remove the snake.
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The f**k kind of snake handler is he?
 
If only every police report was put in such a way, go Errol!
 
"The Gautrain is able to confirm reports that a legless intruder of indeterminate sex gained unauthorised access to the the Midrand station parking area from the adjacent veld earlier this week."

:D
 
Errol, you sir need to become SANRAL's PR person..

You might be forced to lie, but at least we'd get a laugh out of it at the same time.
 
OOh I'm going to offer him R50 for his car I'm sure he will take it.
 
Gautrain user drives home with snake, calls expert to remove it

After days of fearing that taking the car home could be dangerous, Mabasa finally took his car on Friday night to his home in Pretoria west with the snake inside.

“On Saturday morning I saw the snake protruding from the bonnet. I called the snake handler and he arrived an hour later and took it out. My fear was that the Gautrain people could tell me that the snake is out while it is not, just for me to remove the car from the emergency parking,” said a much relieved Mabasa.

He paid the snake handler R300 for his services.
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/20...ves-home-with-snake-calls-expert-to-remove-it
 
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