120-Inch Python Found on Staten Island Driveway

Today on Staten Island, a couple had to call the authorities about a python that found its way onto their property. No one's quite sure where the 10-foot long yellow Albino python came from when it was spotted on the Great Kills driveway, but it's suspected that someone nearby released their pet when the creature became beyond their control. A spokesman for Animal Care and Control told the SI Advance, "[People] get them when they're very young, when they're a foot or two long. They outgrow their enclosure and they get to be too much to handle." Last year alone, the agency brought in 91 snakes—pythons being one of the classifications of snakes that are banned as pets. (In Florida just today, a pet python strangled a two-year-old girl to death.) The Staten Island snake has been put on a a wildlife rehabilitator in Brooklyn until it can be moved to a sanctuary outside the city. That sure beats the fate of one python in Brooklyn—he ended up being peed on!

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By Billy Parker in News on July 1, 2009 3:56 PM

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NannyState

There's our solution: just loose the pythons where the geese are and let them ssssssnack.

Snoopy

Now we are talking a viable solution. Geese lay eggs. Snakes eat eggs. The only problem I see is what do the snakes eat for the other 11 months out of the year? Carriage horses?

At least they don't fly.

silver

Wheres the chimp that drinks wine and is "so human" on staten island?

Snoopy

I guess the library that Felix the fool goes to, to use the computer hookup shut down early.

Talk to me boy.

This is a real issue, not the crap about saving the vermin geese you have a hard-on about.

Snoopy

Save the Pythons! Save the Pythons!

Where is numbnuts Felixthecat2 the fool on this one?

Now this is animal abuse. When someone takes a wild animal not suited to a domestic environment and calls it a pet and when said animal gets too big for being a pet the fuckhead just opens the door and tosses it outside, then we have animal abuse. Not the bullshit goose problem he keeps ranting on about.

ANGRYGOD11

MY PYTHON DON'T WANT NONE, UNLESS YOU GOT BUNS, HUN!

Jen S

UGH! I would've thought that was a misplaced hose and grabbed it without thinking.

droopdr

from the article on fox news:

Some owners have freed pythons into the wild and a population of them has taken hold in the Everglades. One killed an alligator and then exploded when it tried to eat it.

So, is there like a Darwin awards for snakes bc this one deserves one?