Samuel L. Jackson is no longer the only person who has seen a snake on a plane. Ten years after the actor's iconic film Snakes on a Plane terrorized ophidiophobes everywhere, passengers on a Carrier Aeromexico flight to Mexico City on Sunday spotted a serpent slithering around in an overhead luggage compartment.
A passenger captured a video so the rest of the world could be as terrified as those aboard the plane — especially when the giant green snake suddenly dropped down from the overhead bin:
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