An Australian driver armed himself with an unusual weapon after he was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving. The driver grabbed a live snake off the road when officers stopped him for an alcohol breath test. Police in Darwin, home for poisonous snakes and voracious crocodiles, say the incident happened Saturday night, after the officers saw the motorist swerving.

An eight-foot python gave a truck driver the scare of his life when he stopped for a toilet break and saw the huge snake watching him while he relieved himself. The startled writer told the York Press, that he was urinating on a tree along the A59 highway near Knaresborough in Yorkshire, England when he saw the python watching him. The snake slithered toward his feet before climbing up the tree.

In an attempt to set a new world record and register his name in Guinness Book of Records, Khum Chaibuddee, a Thai snake charmer has kissed 19 highly poisonous Cobras. His dangerous attempt recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as he broke the previous record of kissing 11 King Cobras.

A snake struck man from Rockvale has discovered that a first-aid scene after a snake bite in films may not hold any good in real life. Mike Edwards was working on his farm near Rockdale on Saturday when a timber rattlesnake bit one of his index fingers. The standard snakebite scene in many Hollywood movies shows the victim applying a tourniquet to the limb and then cutting the wound and sucking out the venom.

Police in north Adelaide are investigating a bizarre armed robbery from a home, involving the theft of 12, one-year-old snakes. Police say that a woman living in the outer northern suburb of Hewitt opened the door to her home and a man with a black pistol threatened her.