*shudder*
here's something the inspector discovered while he was in the attic:
a dead snake.
a really weirdly-located dead snake.
just to get you oriented the brick is my chimney. we're looking up towards the roof. the snake is draped over a beam of my roof, between the beam and the roof. the snake is just hanging there, not touching anything but the beam. and the roof.
if i were on CSI i wouldn't know how to begin to solve this case. first of all, how does a snake get in the attic at all? snakes can't climb stairs! secondly, how did it get itself between the roof & the beam? did it leap off the chimney? finally, what the hell? did he get his head into that very small gap, realize the rest of his body wouldn't fit, then found himself unable to back out? i mean, he's just HANGING THERE!
many kudos to ray, who came to my rescue and got the snake down. it was completely dessicated and stinky. it kind of crackled when ray pulled him down.
i hope this is the worst thing the inspector found. the report will be delivered to carolyn today.
posted by christa @ 6/21/2007 06:11:00 AM
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that is an interesting mystery, all right. i couldn't have gotten that snake down without a serious pair of gloves. i am reminded of the duct-tape scuptures and the bottle of urine we found in the attic of the house we owned but had left abandoned for some months. (http://axblue.blogspot.com/2006/07/im-interested-crimes-interesting.html) though it's not the same at all, really. anyway. i hope the rest of the inspection went well!
Did it leave a suicide note?
We found a dead snake in our lab at work whose presense puzzled us. We're in the lab every day and all of a sudden there's this snake that's not only dead but had obviously been in that condition for some time. It's not like it got in and died in a time warp, sending its dessicated body back a few months.
poor snake! what kind was it, could you tell?
i think it was a black snake.
That's the second black snake story I've heard, today. Hmm..
As for "dried and stinky", that's kind of sad. I always thought that things quit stinking after they got dry, but shows what I know.
Differently related: one of my former colleagues lost his cat for a week. Turns out that it had gone exploring in a house under construction, slipped off of a roof joist, and got caught by a nail that hooked its collar.
And it SURVIVED. After a WEEK.
Holy cats.
Better to find a dead snake than a live one, I say! Yikes. I refuse to even look in our attic, after something gnawed the handles of our luggage to bits....I just don't want to know.
omg. phil. that almost made me cry.
Hm. Makes me question my hormone levels.
Snakes can climb:
"Concertina - The previous methods work well for horizontal surfaces, but snakes climb using the concertina technique. The snake extends its head and the front of its body along the vertical surface and then finds a place to grip with its ventral scales. To get a good hold, it bunches up the middle of its body into tight curves that grip the surface while it pulls its back end up; it then springs forward again to find a new place to grip with its scales."
From "How Snakes Work"
http://science.howstuffworks.com/snake3.htm
it's also possible that the snake crawled up a tree, plopped onto the roof, and then found it's way into your attic. snakes are pretty good at strategic falling.
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