Never came across snakes.

The worst I experienced was a storage facility in the old Brooklyn Navy 
Yard. The fact that panes of glass were missing from the windows made it a 
home to seagulls, pigeons, the usual array of rodents, bugs, mold, mildew, 
dirt/filth, and everything else (except snakes) that one finds in a place 
where there's no environmental controls other than a roof. The birds liked 
to use the box tops, especially those near windows, for nests and waste 
output. The building also had no heat in the winter or fan/AC in the 
summer, and the unsecured loading dock was (and probably still is) 
virtually open to the public. Since delivery of records was done via 
taxi-cabs, and the firm I was working for was cheap, we had to go there to 
get records and return them -- a major no no for security. Did I say we 
could just about walk in head upstairs for our records and not encounter 
an employee which we did. We kept a box with a miniature wood baseball bat 
and a policeman's flashlight (the long metal kind) to guard against river 
rats. Going here to get records out of this hell hole felt like a scene 
straight out of Cluozot's nerve-wracking "Wages of Fear" (remade by 
Friedkin as "Sorcerer" in 1977). As bad as it was/is, the firm I had 
worked for dragged it feet for almost 2 years on getting their records out 
of there.

Stephen Cohen, Records Manager
MetLife \ Legal Affairs
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY  10036-6796
212-578-2373
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