Snakes on a plane? No, babe — it was a boa constrictor on San Francisco Muni this week.
As it turns out, you don’t need limbs to be a public transit ally in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Large snake on Muni earlier this week
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San Francisco muni is experiencing a boom in ridership. In 2023, 142 million trips were recorded by the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (SFMTA) — a 25% increase over the same figure for 2022. This year has already seen day records shattered and pictures of packed train cars and buses are now commonplace on social media again.
But what isn’t exactly familiar is seeing a limbless ectotherm, like a medium-sized snake, just vibing on SF muni.
“Oh dear, that is a slithering snake on San Francisco’s Muni,” reads a post on X from [at]FriscoLive415. The video was originally pulled from Reddit user fukwow69, who said the video was sent to him via a friend earlier this week — truly a spiderweb of distinctions.
“My friend spotted this snake while taking the K line outbound from Civic Center a couple of days ago,” the Reddit user wrote. “It looked like it may have slithered out of the backpack belonging to a passed-out man?”
The snake, which appears to be a juvenile of a certain boa constrictor morph, looks like it slithered out of someone’s backpack before hitching a ridged ride on the articulated part of the train.
Just before the twenty-two-second video ends, the snake spots the individual shooting the video. TBD if it paid for the ride … though we’d surmise that not having any appendages would make it difficult to wield a physical Clipper Card.
