Alibi Of The Week
With less traffic on the roads, drivers are tempted to put their foot down. Rightly, though, the police are cracking down on speedsters. I’m sure they have heard every excuse in the book but “I’m trying to fend off a snake” is probably a new one.
In Queensland, a trucker was stopped driving in excess of 70 mph on a busy road. The police’s intervention was probably a relief to Jimmy as he was in a life and death struggle with an eastern brown snake, one of the deadliest in the world, which had tried to wrap itself around him as he drove. Using a knife and twisting his seat belt Jimmy held it at bay and managed to escape without being bitten.
The traffic officer soon realised that Jimmy’s tale was not a shaggy snake story and summoned medical assistance. He was OK and was let off a speeding fine.
It is not reported what happened to the snake.
