This Snake Swallowed A Tennis Ball...How They Got It Out Is Sheer Horror

Trish Predergast, a former veterinary nurse, was caught off guard when she was tasked with removing a tennis ball from the inside of a 5-foot-long snake.

If you think this sounds too crazy to be true, here's the X-ray.

After lining the snake’s stomach with oils, Predergast began a 30-minute operation to get the tennis ball out of the surely uncomfortable reptile.