A high school football player recently had the misfortune of carrying something truly unexpected in his helmet: a two-foot-long potentially deadly venomous snake.
The strange incident occurred last week at Maumelle High School in Arkansas. The male student-athlete had been practicing on the field for at least an hour when he and his coach made the discovery. Animal services officials thankfully removed the snake without incident.
Snake helmet
According to the Associated Press, the player did feel some “unusual movement” in his helmet when he first put it on, but he thought little of it at first. Eventually, though, the sensation got so…
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