Lord forgive me; I killed a snake today.

[bornagainultimatum]

I know one of the ten commandments says "Thou shalt not kill", but I am ashamed that that is just what I did today. I was cruising home from Philly today in my Born Again Hemi Mag. A red blur blows by me and zigs in and out of traffic. Further down the freeway, he gets stuck behind a line of cars and I pull up behind him. I see the large exhaust outlets of aftermarket tips. I also see him revving it up in anger as he is stuck behind the line of slower cars. I notice it is a deep red 2003 SVT Mustang Cobra. I am cruising behind him at about 45 mph. Everytime he pushes in the clutch and revs it up, his supercharged 4.6 liter howls in anger and blows out dark smoke like a snarling dragon. I hate snakes.
He impatiently lags back and then speeds up as if to aggravate the driver in front of him. I can see him grinning in his rearview mirror. "This snake needs to be defanged", I thought. As the line of cars in front of him pull over to the right lane and with a clear stretch of highway in front of us, I think, "now is the time". He stands on it, I hear the cobra whine and I am about five car lengths behind him. I stand up on the throttle and Born Again Hemi comes to life. At first it looks like the distance is not changing, then my Hemi steadily reels him in. As I come up on him, I swing out to the other lane and walked him down. I glanced over at him as I ran by. He had his head glued to the front windshield gritting his teeth as if he wanted to will his car to stay ahead of me. After I blew by him, I checked the rearview mirror and he was still in it, but his headlights were getting hopelessly smaller. I stayed in the throttle a few seconds longer to put him out of his misery. I couldn't believe it as the Hemi shifted into high gear. It had hardly broken a sweat! I couldn't help letting out a big smile. I patted the dash as if to say "good girl" and let off the throttle. I glanced down at the speedo...what the...the needle was falling from 130...125...120. I eased on the brakes and slowed to 55. The Hemi seemed disappointed as if it had much more to give. I waited for the cobra to catch up, but he turned off early in shame.
I asked God to forgive me for this kill. I hate snakes. just then I remembered Genesis 3:14:

So the LORD God said to the serpent:
“ Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.

The serpent had indeed eaten my dust.

[riperoo]

Congrats on a "righteous" kill. The snake had it coming!!

[4rwheeler]

Nice story. I think your alright with slaying a serpent. Should be praised, not condemned.

[kingswingin]

Nicely put BornAgain! AND nice kill! Sounds like that guy needed a good public flogging and your Mag was just the one to give it to him! Beans on the thrashing!

[rwalshphoto]

hahaha, great write up.

[Greg095]

God drives a Mopar, don't worry about it.

[QuickSilver08]

What a great mini story. Thank you for writing this!

-Floyd

[mjgmagnum]

this had me laughing nice kill.

[viper3ez]

i think i enjoyed the way the story was told more than the actual kill.

nice kill.

[MAGnesiumMagnum]

My girlfriend gets on to me for talking to my car like that ans sayin "Good girl sydney yes u are" like im talking to a baby. She also screams when I race people WITH HER IN THE CAR! haha but great mini story im going to show her next time. and great race! I HATE FORD sorry I just dont like it and I love whopping ford ESPECIALLY mustangs! Thank you for this it made me laugh my a** off.