This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel to Jeremy Zachson, New South Wales.

Jeremy, let's tell the snake that took over the car and drove it down the highway story first.

I'm looking at a photograph of a snake sticking his head out the window as my Springer Spaniel likes to.

Is that what I'm looking at? Snakes like to drive?

Well, John, it turns out that's exactly what they like to do.

And where this happened was nonetheless up in Queensland,

which is pretty much Snake Central right now.

And what it was was basically just north of Brisbane,

this young lady was driving her car,

just happily down the

motorway doing about 100, 110, so about 55 miles an hour, just going about a business,

when all of a sudden something caught her eye. And at first, she didn't really think too much

of it. But then the thing started to, I guess, emanate is probably the word, from really the gap between the

bonnet of a car and where a car sort of attaches to it and started to poke its head out.

And lo and behold, John, exactly as you described, it was a carpet snake basically coming

out from under a bonnet and putting its head into the windstream and effectively sticking

its head out like a dog would

sticking his head out of the window. This lady, to a credit, didn't panic. She didn't panic whatsoever.

First thing she did, as everybody does, she grabbed her phone, got some photographs, got some

videos of the snake, poking his head out of a car and just basically eyeballing her at the windscreen

and I know, probably just saying, hey, you're going to pull over or we're just going to

continue. Then eventually she did pull over and I believe somebody stopped to help her and actually

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