Associated Press
 
August 4, 2009
 
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. -- Katie Prewitt had two problems with her Geo Tracker.
 
There was the rope that seemed to hang from the car's undercarriage. And there was a hissing noise, maybe a faulty emissions valve.
 
She took the car into her husband's Klamath Falls body shop but Dave Prewitt wasn't quite sure what to make of the problem. But then there was a slithering movement.
 
The "rope," it turned out, was a 3-foot diamondback rattlesnake that didn't want to be disturbed.
 
Dave Prewitt's friend Martin Schenck eventually grabbed a shovel and another tool and used the makeshift chopsticks to remove the snake. He used the shovel to pin the hissing snake to the ground and then decapitated it.