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Cop with no chill struggles to apprehend small snake

'Get the door!'
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Brian Koerber
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It's safe to say this police officer has a healthy fear of snakes.

The University of Central Florida police department posted a clip to its Facebook page last week showing one of its brave officers at his most vulnerable. Wielding a baton and a trash can, the officer did his very best at helping some students and faculty remove a small snake from a university building.

After a fair amount of screaming, swearing, and laughing the group was able to get the snake outside.

"We catch bad guys, not snakes," the cops admitted on Facebook. "Even our officers get a little scared sometimes."

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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