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We were filming up on Mystery Mesa in Santa Clarita for a film "Charlie Wilson's War". It's the location you see at the end of Spielberg's "Duel" where the tanker goes over the cliff (spoiler alert). The place is notorious for rattlesnakes, we even had a "wrangler" full time on set to catch and release them on an as needed basis.
There was a grip who thought it was real funny to place this rubber snake under rocks, furniture and set dressing so when you'd go to move it for camera, you'd jump 20 feet back while letting out a yell.
So we took one of those big ass zip ties and placed it around the driveshaft of his truck parked in "crew parking". We used packaging tape to hold down the tail end.
He lived out in Lancaster/Palmdale, about an hour's drive on the freeway through the high desert.
Well, we finally wrapped around 11PM and he drove home and as the driveshaft heated up, it let loose the tail of the zip tie and it started whacking the underside of his vehicle. He had it towed to a 24 hour garage and they put it on the lift, noticed the zip tie, snipped it and he was on his way.
Never tried to pull that "snake BS" the rest of the show.
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