June 14, 2019
The Python in the Cabinet
Timothy Birdnow
A woman in Ballwin Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis) came home from a trip to Jamaica to find a live python in her cabinet.
According to the Belleville News Democrat:
Police were unable to determine where the python came from and how it got into the woman's apartment.
I worked for a property management company and ran into all sorts of similar situations. Once i was doing a move-out inspection on an apartment and was checking the bathroom when I turned around from the sink and there was an alligator gazing hungrily at me from the bathtub! It's jaw was open and I know it was thinking I would make a tasty snack. There were TWO alligators left behind in that tub. Both were young, only about two feet long or so, but I can tell you I jumped out of the door and slammed it shut in no time. It's not every day a man is surprised by two alligators in an apartment in the city of St. Louis.
People leave all manner of creatures in apartments. Cats are quite common; someone moves and just abandons the poor cats. I have loaded up my family and friends with the poor things, and kept several myself over the years. It's very sad; people just think they are disposable, like a old chair or lamp that is too much trouble to take with them.
At any rate, if you have a pet you have a responsibility to it (and to other people) to at least take the critter to the Humane Society when you no longer want it or can no longer care for it.
A woman in Ballwin Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis) came home from a trip to Jamaica to find a live python in her cabinet.
According to the Belleville News Democrat:
Araminta Miles had just returned home from a Jamaican vacation when she went to get food from the pantry to feed her dog, KMOV reported. "Something just said, ‘turn around to look’ and it looked like a scarf,†she said, according to the station.
That ‘scarf’ was an 18-inch ball python.
"I was on the phone with my friends and was like, ‘There is a snake in my apartment, bye!,†Miles said, KMOV reported.
That ‘scarf’ was an 18-inch ball python.
"I was on the phone with my friends and was like, ‘There is a snake in my apartment, bye!,†Miles said, KMOV reported.
Police were unable to determine where the python came from and how it got into the woman's apartment.
I worked for a property management company and ran into all sorts of similar situations. Once i was doing a move-out inspection on an apartment and was checking the bathroom when I turned around from the sink and there was an alligator gazing hungrily at me from the bathtub! It's jaw was open and I know it was thinking I would make a tasty snack. There were TWO alligators left behind in that tub. Both were young, only about two feet long or so, but I can tell you I jumped out of the door and slammed it shut in no time. It's not every day a man is surprised by two alligators in an apartment in the city of St. Louis.
People leave all manner of creatures in apartments. Cats are quite common; someone moves and just abandons the poor cats. I have loaded up my family and friends with the poor things, and kept several myself over the years. It's very sad; people just think they are disposable, like a old chair or lamp that is too much trouble to take with them.
At any rate, if you have a pet you have a responsibility to it (and to other people) to at least take the critter to the Humane Society when you no longer want it or can no longer care for it.
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