There were snakes on a plane.

Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fined a South Korean man $800 at Atlanta’s international airport for trying to smuggle 30 dead snakes and birds into the country.

The man, who had the carcasses in his luggage, was trying to bring them in to be used for traditional medicine.

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Firefighters in Lansing, Mich., had to cut a hole in the side of a house and use a forklift to extricate a 900-pound man from his second-floor bedroom.

As they slid him out, they covered him with a blue tarp to shield him from onlookers.

The man had not left his house since 2003.

More than 200 students were evacuated from a dorm at Texas Southern University because of a bat infestation, amid worries that some of the residents had been exposed to rabies.

One student at the Houston school said he had killed dozens of bats but did not know anyone who had been bitten.

Officials said it was unclear how many bats had infested the building, but exterminators are working to clear them out.

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Count your lucky stars that you weren’t driving along this road.

Millions of bees got loose when a truck carrying hives overturned on a Montana highway.

The truck was carrying 465 hives – nearly 13.7 million bees – when it flipped over in a ditch near Billings.

“The public was in no . . . danger as long as they didn’t stop to get out of their vehicles,” said state trooper Dell Aman.

“If they did get out, they figured out pretty quickly that wasn’t the place to be.”

But it was the place to bee.

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An Idaho carnival worker who slammed his SUV into a telephone pole said he crashed because his friends were having sex in the back seat, throwing the vehicle off-balance.

According to a police affidavit, Joshua Frank, 22, told cops the randy romp caused the vehicle to become “tippy,” and he lost control.

All three suffered minor injuries.