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A New Yorker crashed a rented U-Haul van he was using to transport a sofa when he discovered a live snake under his seat as he drove across Manhattan Saturday afternoon.
Jared Day, 25, was driving through Soho back to his apartment in downtown Brooklyn with his roommate after they picked up a sofa they found on Facebook Marketplace in New Jersey.
The 25-year-old trader was driving the van at the intersection of Canal Street and Broadway when he looked down and noticed what he thought was a “big” “toy” snake at his roommate’s feet.
“Maybe someone left their toy snake in the car? So I reached down to pick it up, like what’s this?” Day told The Post.
Day realized the slithering snake — white with yellow stripes and about 3 and a half feet long — was actually a live reptile.
“It was warm and heavy. Then it turned its head and looked at me,” Day said.
Day and his roommate freaked out and started yelling, “Oh, f–k,” he said.
“There wasn’t a lot of coherent thought at this point. I hate snakes. I freaked out. I took my foot off the brake and crashed into the car in front of us,” Day said.
After he crashed the U-Haul into the car in front of them, the two roommates still had to deal with the live snake in the truck.
“I put the car in park, and we had our feet up on the seat. At first, I thought to chuck it out of the window, to get it out of the car, but then I realized we were in Manhattan, there is nowhere for me to really put it. There are pedestrians everywhere,” he recalled.
Two responding female officers “didn’t want anything to do with” the snake, Day said.
Animal control officers eventually arrived and searched the van for the snake before hauling it off in a big, white bag, he said.
Day doesn’t think the snake came from the sofa they bought.
“We took the couch apart to put it in the truck, so I know there was no snake in the couch,” Day said.
A Post reporter contacted the U-Haul location in the Bronx where Day rented the truck. A man who refused to give his name answered the phone, but confirmed Day reported his harrowing find.
“U-Hauls are used for many things. I would have no clue how the snake got there. Obviously, I’m surprised,” the worker told The Post.
Day is just grateful no one was seriously injured.
“Holy s–t, what a crazy misfortune. I am so sorry to the girls for hitting their car. I am grateful no one was hurt. It could have been a lot worse.”