Three Taco Bell customers threw a python through a drive-through window at an unsuspecting worker who is very afraid of snakes. Bryant Simmons, 20, was handing food to the men in a pickup Sunday night at the restaurant at 1108 N. Interstate 35. Someone inside the truck tossed the 3-foot snake at Simmons. It hit him in the chest but did not bite him.
Simmons was still terrified when officers arrived, Round Rock police spokesman Eric Poteet said. Simmons couldn't be reached for comment Thursday, but Don Barton, vice president of human resources for Austaco Ltd., said Simmons "is shaken up but just fine." The snake will also be fine: Officers gave it to a known python fan who works at a nearby Thundercloud Subs restaurant. They said the reptile is harmless.
"As soon as I saw it, I had to have it," said Mandie Page, who has two other ball pythons. "I can't believe someone would throw it like that, because they could have hurt him." (She meant the snake.) Page said she's friends with one of the officers but said it took a little bit of coaxing to get the snake. She named it Joker.
This reminds me of a lady I saw at Lady Bird Lake a few years ago - she was speed walking with ~ 6 ft python coiled around her neck! I wish I had a camera then. I thought it was weird!
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