Marcus Forson, from Houston, thought his wife was playing a practical joke on him when he found a smelly, cold dead snake in the party pack of beer he purchased.
"I thought she was playing a joke on me and she had it inside the box," Forson told local station KTRK.
"When I first opened the box, his head was in between my fingers, and I didn't know what it was at first," Forson said.
"There's no way I was going to drink the beer. It stunk bad. The snake was dead. The snake was ice cold. It's kind of shrunk up and the eyes are missing out of it," Forson said.
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Since no one was harmed, Forson slipped the snake into a bag and had an interesting item to show to his guests.
Forson said it was lucky that the reptile wasn't alive so it could not come out of the box and bite anybody.
He said the whole thing was "entertaining."