Maybe some kind of corn snake? He’s in southern California, and the bike path was along the San Diego river.
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Snek
Snake.
Le epic moment
Look at that! A nope Rope!
Snek
Nope rope. More specifically, a danger noodle
All the guesses are either Gopher Snake or Garter Snake, so probably not a danger noodle. Just a nope rope.
All snakes are danger noodles, except for cat snakes (which is a different kind of nope rope)
My understanding was that all snakes are nope ropes, but only venomous ones are danger noodles. Is it the other way around?
You’re correct. Nope, don’t mess with nonvenomous snakes, for their sake.*
And really don’t mess with venomous snakes, for your sake.
*Except if you’re in the Everglades and you’re absolutely sure it’s an invasive Burmese python and not one of the native species the pythons have been eating to extinction. Then you should kill it quickly. But don’t eat it, they contain a lot of mercury.
If you interacted with a smooth green snake - aka “grass snake” - (they’re tiny) and checked out their color in the sun (it’s gorgeous) - they’d maybe be less nope ropes and more dinky slinky…
But yes, the “danger noodles” are the venemous ones…
Sorry, I didn’t realize animal meme-ing was taken this seriously and one can be wrong. Now that I know it’s possible, I probably am
They’re memes, but they do still have meaning. Being fake-serious about the classifications used to be part of the joke, but that was about three social media platforms and ten years ago for me so maybe that part got lost.
Idk, lemme ask the I Can Haz Cheeseburger cat
Excellent, straight to the highest possible authority.
I tried going for a senior expert so I asked CATS instead, but he just told me that I had no chance to survive and to make my time.
I think it might be a Gopher Snake based off of the coloring and the pattern of the spots along its body.
Garter Snake is my guess.
No step on snek
No bike on snek either.
I hope OP is asking to find out if it’s non-venomous and safe to grab to remove from the path next time.
OP is a snek bro…
Don’t trend on me
I saw one of these attack and swallow a toddler.
Damn, that’s bad for the snek. Toddlers parasitize sneks when eaten… Poor snek.
He’s a snek
If it had wheels, it’d be a bike.
well done. for anyone who hasn’t seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
Snake
Danger noodle
No danger, all Noodle!
Some kind of worm
EKANS
Moves silently and stealthily. Eats the eggs of birds, such as PIDGEY and SPEAROW, whole.
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