HOOD COUNTY // A man was surprisingly calm upon realizing that a rattlesnake was crawling out of his pickup’s air vent. Instead of crashing in a panic, as this reporter surely would have, Bob Crowell silently filmed a video of the rattler and posted it to Facebook, commenting, “You never have a dull moment with me.” Crowell told the Houston Chronicle that he used “a tool” to “secure the snake, remove it from his car, and toss it back into the wild.”
LUFKIN // After hearing glass shatter in the early hours of the morning, a terrified homeowner took shelter in a closet and called 911 to report a break-in. Police arrived to find that the intruder was a befuddled white-tailed deer, the Lufkin Daily News reports. “We’ve got the house surrounded. Come on out!” orders an officer in the highly entertaining bodycam video, before entering and shouting, “It’s a deer, it’s a deer! Stand down.” The doe scampered wildly across the living room before officers eventually shooed it out the front door with a folding chair.
