A Chesterton, Indiana, man is facing charges for possessing a venomous snake after his own pet Western Diamondback rattlesnake bit him on the finger. Robert Urbanski's snake bit him while he was handling it, and he was rescued by police and rescue personnel and taken to a hospital and then airlifted to the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. He could now be charged with illegal possession of poisonous snakes.

A man from the Indian state of Chennai is bidding for a place in the Guinness Book Of World Records by inserting live snakes into his nostrils and then pulling them out of his mouth. Manoharan, who goes by the name "Snake Manu," has reportedly been performing the feat for quite a few years. According to a local journal, Manoharan threads two tree snakes - several inches long and as thick as a finger - through his nostrils and opens his mouth wide to pull them out.

A Milwaukee Budget Rental worker got the shock of his life when he found a 4-foot, red-tailed boa in a rental car. The worker found the boa constrictor in the glove box of a returned car's glove compartment and quickly called animal control officers. WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin reported that by the time the officers got to Mitchell International Airport, where the car was parked, the reptile had moved from the glove box through the dashboard and into the air vents.

Reporters covering the Grapefruit League spring training baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the New York Mets in Winter Haven, Florida had found another news story when a 3-foot black snake came uninvited to watch the game. The black snake stirred panic in the press box as the New York Mets defeated the Cleveland Indians 6-5 on Tuesday. The reptile ran freely across notebooks and laptop computers in the bottom of the fourth inning.

In a scene that could be mistaken for a thriller movie, a 66-year-old Brazilian saved his grandson from the deadly trap of a 16-foot-long Anaconda by beating the snake with rocks and a knife for half an hour. Joaquim Pereira told the Agencia Estado news service, "It was agonizing, I pulled it from one side, but it would come back on the other. "