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Video: Unsuspecting New Yorkers hail cab with live python inside and freak out

NEW YORK CITY — What’s funny to some may be terrifying to others. After using a live python to elicit reactions out of New Yorkers, a cab driver has come under fire.

Comedian, author and former taxi driver Jimmy Failla said he used the stunt to promote his book, Follow That Car.

“We’re trying to promote a book and have fun,” he told the New York Post.

Some of those who hailed his cab have other ideas about what’s fun — and hanging out with wildlife isn’t one of them. See video below. Warning: graphic language.