Customer's horror as 'worst possible thing' falls into her drink at Mexican restaurant

A woman who was out having dinner was left shaken after a snake fell from the ceiling and fell into her cocktail.

Carletta Andrews has spoken of the moment she had just finished dinner with her husband, when she felt something hit her forehead.

She was at the Patron Mexican Restaurant and Cantina in Sandston, Virginia, USA, when she suddenly say saw the little snake land in her half-finished margarita.

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The snake had dropped from the ceiling, shocking everyone in the restaurant, including the staff as well as fellow dinners.

Carletta told local reporters she is "scarred for life". She said: “I looked at my husband like what was that. When I turned around, I saw the snake in my margarita.”

She said the snake — a baby of indeterminate species — started curling itself around her drink’s straw.

She added: “I kept saying please don’t let it go in my purse. I left shaking, I was traumatised.”

Restaurant workers rushed in to try to remove the snake with a stick. Another patron then grabbed the snake and released it back into the wild.

Mrs Andrews said the restaurant offered to move her to a booth, but she just wanted to go home She added that she wants to know how this happened, and where the mother snake could be.

She added: “If that was the baby, I fear… is the mum there?”

A Patron Mexican Restaurant and Cantina spokesman told 8News the snake may have gotten into the ceiling through an air conditioning unit.

The eatery was noted last December for a number of violations, including mould, broken handles, missing ceiling tiles, cracked floor tiles throughout the kitchen, and leaky ceiling tiles, but had addressed the issues within six days of being notified.

Back in September last year, the reported on a furious movie-goer who claimed she was bitten by a snake while watching a film.

playing the tornado flick 'Twisters' when she felt a sharp pain in her foot at the Major Cineplex in Central Rama 2 in Bangkok, Thailand. She said she performed first aid on herself at the cinema but claimed she was later placed in the ICU of a hospital when the seemingly innocuous wound got worse.

Photos show two puncture wounds on the 27 year old's left foot from where the creature sank its fangs into her. She reported the incident to police but claimed officers told her to negotiate with the cinema management over compensation.

She said: "I was watching the movie Twisters at around 2pm. When the movie ended, I felt something slither past my feet, so I moved it. The animal was probably startled and bit my feet, causing a sharp pain that faded into numbness.

"I did not know what to do so I performed first aid on myself by squeezing the blood out of the wound. I went to see the doctor by myself and was told that it was definitely not a rat, based on the bite marks. I stayed in the ICU for one night."