I once had a yellow rat snake escape in my parent's apartment . Resouceful teen that I was I posted a sign in the elevator that dwellers in the 'F' line of apartments were most likely to find my snake emerging from the ventilator units..well I tell you we all laughed about that one till the tears ran down my legs..people were moving out..the snake was found when I heard it shedding it's skin in the TV..so it, at least, came out better than it went in..
..then there's the time I came home to the house lights flashing off and on -- a big ol' lizard entwined in the dc/ac inverter transformer coils, burned, but alive..
which reminds me snakebite; -- I have some broken stuff for you including 2 battery chargers burned out by ANTS! Turned em on one day and smoke and flame and pismire! The company is out of business, (Todd Engineering) can you fix them???