Snakes find way in package mailed to Utah woman

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Something moving in a FedEx box made a husband shout and a wife jump in Roy

Gaylyne Hurst knew something was terribly wrong when her husband ordered her to get out of their house. She said, "I immediately knew there was something alive in that box. I didn't know exactly what it was."

Inside that box was Gaylyne's worst nightmare: two slippery, slithering snakes.

"I called 911 and told them to send the national guard, forget the police, just send the national guard," Gaylyne said.

Turns out they were black rat snakes. This was no prank. She was told the snakes slipped into that FedEx box right of the muddy floodwaters in Indiana.

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