Mon, 08/23/2010 - 23:06 by Prince damin
Southsea, England -- A British couple said they returned from their honeymoon to find a 7-foot python in their upstairs bathroom.
Tim Booker-Baxter, 32, and his wife Rebecca, 27, of Southsea, England, said they returned from a trip to the United States to find a note from a neighbor warning that his snake was on the loose, The Sun reported Monday.
Rebecca Booker-Baxter said they took a quick look around the house and did not see the snake Then her husband went to the bathroom and discovered the python curled around the taps in the bathtub.
The couple said the snake was coaxed into a box and returned to their neighbor two houses away.
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Thu, 07/08/2010 - 00:50 by Pankaj Damin
Newton, Mass. -- A Massachusetts school custodian said he discovered a 3-foot-long ball python while cleaning out lockers at a high school.
Ed Reardon, a custodian for the Newton School Department, said he was cleaning out lockers at the old North High School last week so abandoned textbooks could be donated when the snake fell from the top shelf of a locker, the Daily News Tribune, Waltham, Mass., reported Wednesday.
"When I pulled (a notebook) out, a snake just fell to my feet," Reardon said.
Reardon said he grabbed the snake by the back of the neck and gave it water before taking it to Newtonville Pet.
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Thu, 04/29/2010 - 11:35 by Rakhi
Gonzales, La. -- A Louisiana woman discovered a python in her car that dealership employees said belonged to a couple that nearly purchased the vehicle.
Marquita Lawrence said she was driving in the Toyota Camry she had recently purchased from Hollingsworth Richards Used Cars in Gonzales when she saw a ball python crawl out from under the passenger seat to investigate her fried chicken, WAFB-TV, Baton Rouge, La., reported Wednesday.
"I threw it in park and hauled tail and I did not look back. I'm running across the highway screaming, 'There's a snake in my car, there's a snake in my car!'" Lawrence said.
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Tue, 04/13/2010 - 10:19 by Rakhi
Riverside, Calif. -- A California animal control officer said she captured the "Monster of Lake Evans," a 15-foot Burmese python apparently abandoned by its owner.
Riverside County Animal Control Officer Kristina Hillegart said she responded Friday to a report of a huge snake at Lake Evans in Riverside's Fairmont Park and discovered the 60-pound reptile near the bank of the lake, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, reported Monday.
Hillegart, who nicknamed the snake the "Monster of Lake Evans," said the snake did not put up too much resistance and was easily lured into the back of her vehicle.
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Thu, 03/11/2010 - 07:44 by harsheeb
Northampton -- Residents of an English city were warned Wednesday that a Burmese python might be on the loose.
Police said a passerby reported seeing the snake Tuesday evening in a wooded area next to a housing subdivision in the Lingwood neighborhood of Northampton, The Daily Telegraph reported. The snake was described as being green and "several feet long."
Burmese pythons are constrictors and are one of the world's largest snakes. They can grow to be about 20 feet long.
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Wed, 02/17/2010 - 13:01 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Fort Myers, Fla. -- Authorities said a thief with an eye for pricey reptiles broke into a Florida petting zoo and walked off with a 9 1/2-foot python.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office said they believe someone broke into the Fort Myers, Fla., petting zoo Sunday, cut the lock on the python's cage and fled with the reptile, which the sheriff's report said is worth an estimated $400, The News-Press newspaper in Fort Myers reported Tuesday.
The sheriff's office said the python has an implanted identification microchip.
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Fri, 01/01/2010 - 10:57 by shalini.bahadur
Cairns, Australia -- An Australian woman who watched with her two children as a python swallowed a baby wallaby in their yard said Thursday she could not have saved the joey.
"By the time we were alerted to the situation, the wallaby was already well wrapped up by the snake," Judith Barton-Ilic told The Cairns Post.
Barton-Ilic -- with her children, Braidyn, 13, and Tiarn, 10 -- saw the snake and its prey Monday outside their home in Cooktown in northern Queensland. Her account of the mother wallaby trying to save the joey was published on the newspaper's Web site with a picture of the snake, attracting hostile comments from around Australia.
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Wed, 11/11/2009 - 11:31 by Ayurdhi Dhar
Los Angeles, CA, November 11 -- Google knows how to poke and prod every Internet sector. So it does not come as a surprise that they announced the release of their new open source programming language called GO on Tuesday.
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Wed, 08/19/2009 - 01:24 by surajdogra
Perris, Calif. -- California animal control authorities said they captured an 11-foot-long, 50-pound python that had slithered into a man's front yard.
Francisco Delgadillo, 43, who lives in an unincorporated area of Riverside County between Lake Elsinore and Perris, said he called Riverside County Animal Services late Sunday night after he and his sister spotted the huge snake in their yard, KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, reported Tuesday.
"Oh my God, that's a huge snake," Delgadillo said. "Our whole yard is fenced so I'm not sure how it got into my property. Maybe it came down from one of (the) trees. We have trees all around our yard."
Animal Control Officer Chrisina Avila arrived and called Animal Control
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Fri, 06/26/2009 - 12:38 by preet_20
Sydney, June 26: Thieves who stole a 2-metre python from a west-coast Australian wildlife research centre earlier this week were undone by the snake itself, news reports said Friday.
The snake was in the Woodvale centre for observation after it caught and swallowed a local rabbit-sized marsupial called a woylie that was wearing a wristwatch-sized radio monitor.
The device was still emitting signals. Sleuths at the department of environment and conservation put up an aircraft and traced the signals to a house in Perth's suburbs.
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Wed, 02/04/2009 - 08:36 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
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