NC driver gets rush hour surprise from ball python

RALEIGH -- Think rush hour is bad enough? What if a three-foot python were part of the drive home? The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Friday that biochemical engineer Marika Suominen-Yeh got the surprise of her life last week when a motorist flagged her down after seeing a snake drop from beneath her minivan. Danny Markadakis waited for a lull in traffic, then scooped up the snake and took it home. The former snake owner took the three-foot ball python to Avian & Exotic Animal Care, where it was treated for a mild abdominal burns and adopted this past weekend. Suominen-Yeh doesn't know where the snake came from, but she says she now checks around her van before getting in. Information from: The News & Observer, http://www.newsobserver.com (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)