Boa Constrictor Invades Brooklyn Home, Hides in Couch

Two seven year old boys were coloring on the couch yesterday when a four foot boa constrictor peeked its head out from one of the couch cushions. "I felt something on my back," one of the boys, Jay Jhomar, tells the Post. "I was excited. At first I thought I found a toy in the couch... It was staring and waiting for someone to eat. I was a little scared, and we were screaming." Jay's mother Danielle summoned the police to her Bensonhurst home, and the snake was subsequently taken away by Animal Care and Control. It's believed to be an escaped pet, but the Post says boas are illegal to own in NYC and it will likely end up in an animal sanctuary. (Jay's futilely lobbying to keep it.) Danielle suspects the boa slithered in through an open window to try and get warm, but the Daily News has a more sinister theory: "The best guess is that the snake slithered into the first-floor apartment by way of a toilet." Aaaand we'll be refusing liquids and food until we can somehow forget about that image.

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By John Del Signore in News on February 18, 2009 9:29 AM

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NannyState

I wonder if she got a secret thrill from that big snake cruising up her backside.

robingee

the snakes with hands - the worst kind!!

S_R

Lawyers?

robingee

No way anything can come up through the toilet. It just doesn't work that way.

Snoopy

What if the snake held its nose? Maybe then he could come up through the toilet.

marcyd

It seems like this kind of thing happens all the time. I have gotten so paranoid about this that I have to keep my toilet lid closed at all times. Sometimes I think I am being crazy until I read ANOTHER story about this happening. People - please stop keeping these wild animals as pets!

TimSPC

What a sssssssssssscary sssssssssssituation.

Tgirl

wtf, the toilet no less... you just don't know what the neighbors are up to. Next we'll hear that some nutbag is keeping a 200 lb chimp in her house.

ides_of_march

We were just sitting there watching Monty Python....

jackdonaghy

Enough is enough! I have had it with these mother#@!$%^* snakes in this mother#@!$%^* couch!

Actually, let's not give Sam Jackson and his agent any ideas.