Twice now I've come across large carpet pythons crossing the road near my house. Both times they've just been chilling, stationary, and directly in the path of traffic. To make things worse this road is steep and curved so visibility isn't great and this always seems to happen at night. Someone could easily run them over.

I tried googling it but the only advice I found was poke the snake in the tail with a stick to make it get a move on. That or videos of people just grabbing the snake from behind and dragging it away, but I'm too chicken for that. These pythons are large enough my neighbours cat was eaten by one.

So, anyone actually poked a snake in the tail? What would/do you do?