Buckets of live rice-field eels overturned on a metro train in Nanjing, China, scattering the creatures across the carriage floor.
🇨🇳 Imagine riding the subway minding your own business when someone suddenly drops a bucket and dozens of SNAKES start slithering across the floor 💀
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 19, 2026
Fortunately, they weren’t actually snakes.
They were rice eels, a snake-like fish commonly sold alive for cooking.
Writer: Sol…
Passengers initially panicked after mistaking the eels for snakes, before stepping in to help collect the slippery animals by hand and return them to the containers.
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