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One night during my recent Atlanta visit, my mom, my boyfriend, and I were driving home from dinner at about 10pm. As we turned onto my tiny quiet street, we saw a big snake lying directly in front of us, right in the middle of our lane.

My boyfriend was driving, and he swerved to avoid it. We decided we needed to go check it out, so we turned around and went back. At this point we were right next to the snake, in the other lane. This thing must have had a deathwish, because it seemed completely unconcerned about the cars going by. I grabbed Arlo’s camera and prepared to snap some photos out the window, but just then a car appeared coming towards us, saw us, slowed a bit…and drove over the snake.

Oops.

Neighbor: “What’re we lookin’ at?”

Arlo: Well, there’s a big snake in the road, just under your car.

Neighbor: Oh, let me take a look

The guys prepared to back up.

Sarcastic Arlo: Um, yeah, that’s good. Take another pass over it.

So the guy backed up, rolling over the snake again, took a look and said “Looks poisonous.” Then he put the car in drive and drove off…over the snake. Again.

Anyway, the snake, with a now slightly squished section, slithered over to the gutter, and I got a couple of pics.

We thought copperhead, probably. I thought the head looked triangle shaped, but we couldn’t get a great view in the dark, and the head isn’t visible in the pictures. Well that, and I don’t know anything about snakes. I asked some snake lovin’ online pals and they agreed that it was a copperhead. Fancy! I’ve seen lots of snakes over the years near my parents’ house but that was a new one for me.

I wish he hadn’t gotten squished though.