Arkansas football player discovers would-be assassin hiding in the unlikeliest of places

A normal practice for an Arkansas high school football player turned out to be a potentially life-threatening incident. The only problem was, it was in the last place he would think to look.

The Maumelle High School student had already been warming up and running around for an hour on Thursday when he noticed something weird about his equipment. According to KARK 4, the player noticed a strange sensation before realizing he was feeling movement inside his helmet.

‘It really was just shock and disbelief.’

The youngster quickly handed his helmet to a member of the coaching staff, who then passed it off to his coach Kirk Horton. To Horton’s surprise, there was a snake embedded into the player’s helmet, nestled in between the padding and the