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SHIFTHEADS: Thirty Snakes a Day: Manitoba’s Seasonal Houseguests
Description
Inside Copy starts with a Manitoba resident removing 30 snakes a day. That makes the usual Canadian complaints about weather and mosquitoes sound like a different conversation. What’s the right name for this many snakes, especially when they intertwine to keep warm?
Last year’s Fat Bear Week champion looked like the favourite. A new winner changes that picture, but the result arrives with a number that doesn’t survive its first reading. The correction carries into a virtual salmon-feeding game, where another enormous total gets checked.
Sometimes the distance to a bathroom becomes the whole problem. A Texas grocery-store crash takes that urgency in an unusual direction. The account leaves injuries and possible charges unresolved, while the entrance itself supplies plenty of material for a Friday exchange.
Topics: Manitoba snakes, animal collective nouns, Fat Bear Week, virtual salmon game, unusual news
Originally aired on 2026-10-02