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HAB911

(9,371 posts)
Mon May 27, 2024, 06:40 AM May 2024

Live Rattlesnake Mailed To FL Trucker: 'I'm Not A Gangster'

PALM COAST, FL — “I’m not a gangster. I’m a truck driver.”

That's what 60-year-old Elijah Bowles of Palm Coast recently told the Los Angeles Times after he received a live rattlesnake in the mail from a mysterious sender.

"I’m trying to figure out, do I have any enemies?" he told the newspaper.

The Godfather-esque drama began May 16 when the Florida-based trucker picked up his mail from the Twentynine Palms Post Office. As he drove away from the facility, he asked a friend who was with him to open a box sent to him.

Surprise.
https://patch.com/florida/southtampa/s/iwpe1/live-rattlesnake-mailed-to-fl-trucker-im-not-a-gangster?utm_term=article-slot-2&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&user_email=59fbf2a415f88c89062654bb1634af83fdd715a090aeffdb9127818a7ac3029b&user_email_md5=9d91d2d18ffb4c5a3c26fdf0d50dd20e&lctg=635b058f1ad70843e800bba0

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Live Rattlesnake Mailed To FL Trucker: 'I'm Not A Gangster' (Original Post) HAB911 May 2024 OP
"I'm trying to figure out, do I have any enemies?" he told the newspaper..... The_REAL_Ecumenist May 2024 #1
Yikes! I have no love for Snattle Rakes. love_katz May 2024 #2

The_REAL_Ecumenist

(889 posts)
1. "I'm trying to figure out, do I have any enemies?" he told the newspaper.....
Tue May 28, 2024, 07:22 AM
May 2024

Well, you have at least one.

love_katz

(2,872 posts)
2. Yikes! I have no love for Snattle Rakes.
Tue May 28, 2024, 04:29 PM
May 2024
Somehow, I suspect a fan of tRump was the sender. I can't imagine being so hate fiiled, to pull a stunt like that. They endangered the postal workers as well as the poor guy who received it, and the snake didn't deserve to be dragged into a dispute between humans. Just WOW.
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