We’ve got a couple real world airplane incidents to report on. The first is this piece from the United Arab Emirates, talk about lax security:

I remember once on a flight from Goa to Europe there was a real, live snake found onboard. The man who brought it on the plane somehow disguised it at security as a belt, and managed to get his pet snake onboard. It escaped his waist on the plane and was found wriggling around the overhead compartments in first class. The plane had to be diverted to land as quickly as possible.

And, while this next one isn’t about snakes, it seems like it could be the makings of a perfectly viable sequel concept:

The scorpion bit David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, crawled up through his crotch and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin. Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.

Yegads. The victim was apparently asked about the film:

He said he hadn’t seen the recent movie, “Snakes on a Plane,” starring Samuel L. Jackson. “I’m pretty selective about what I see,” Sullivan said. “Maybe I have to see it now.”

Yeah, I think you do. You’ll be better prepared for the next time this sort of thing happens.

UPDATE:  For the bored we also have Mice on a Plane and Snakes in a House.