Snakes on the plains?

The morning got off to a nasty start for ophidiophobians in Oklahoma City when they opened Friday’s newspaper to see a headline sprawled atop page one warning: “Big snakes could slither into state.”The problem with the alarming spread in The Oklahoman – replete with the headshot of a frightening-looking Burmese python – is that the danger of a snake invasion is really quite remote, as the