Chester the Snake follow up

I posted yesterday about a snake in a dashboard. Here is the story so far, as I understand it (it has been filtered through a third party and an internet comments thread):

Sometime on Friday, Jan 6th, a mother was driving from Northern California to Los Angeles to deliver her daughter's pet to her. The pet is Chester, a 7' long Boa Constrictor, and prior to the drive he had been sealed up in a large cardboard box with duct tape and placed in a '91 Subaru Loyale, the mothers car.
Toward the end of the trip, the mother got out of the car to get a bite to eat. When she returned to the vehicle she found that the snake had escaped the box and was climbing up into the glove box and behind the dash.
In a panic (and terrified that the snake might bite her) she drove the remaining distance to her daughters home. When she returned to the car with her daughter, they found Chester entwined around the brake and clutch pedals (making the car undrivable), and the rest of it hidden in the dashboard. It had recently eaten as well.
The mother, and possibly the daughter, did not sleep that night, as the car was parked out in the open, and she was afraid that the snake would come out at night and wander off into LA.
Sometime on Friday or Saturday, the help of two herpetologists from the local zoo was enlisted, but they were unable to extract the snake, and it became agitated and puffed up.
They tried to remove part of the dashboard, but were unable to do so because part of the snakes body was covering a few of the screws that they needed access to.
Around 8pm on saturday night, it was decided that placing a dead rat in the car might lure the snake out.
The next morning, likely after some sleep for those who had not had it, there was still no change in the snakes situation. The plan changed to putting a dead rat in a box in the back seat of the car, to lure it out and also to prevent it from being able to eat the rat and then happily return to the dash.
By sunday afternoon they were hoping to find a mechanic willing to help them get the dash out of the car to manually remove the snake from it.
Sunday evening they received some advice from a snake handler (via the internet): to extract a rat brain and place it in a Chester-sized box with some dirt and wait. The boyfriend of the snake's owner volunteered to extract the brain.
That is the story so far.
If the rat brain doesn't work, a subaru mechanic in Montana has offered to talk the mother through the dissassembly of the dashboard over the phone.

The story is still developing here.
Source: Thanks to quickdraw from Fark.com for sharing this story.