Posted on 07/10/2013 12:53:33 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
POLICE Sergeant Don Auld thought a thief had fallen through the ceiling and vomited on the floor when called to a Queensland charity store break-in.
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The snake had pooed in the St Vincent de Paul store in Ingham and left crockery, clothes and other goods smashed and scattered all over the floor.
The following day, on Tuesday, police were called back to the store after a large crowd formed outside.
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Police didn't have the skills to bag the burglar, and called in a snake handler to take the 17kg python away.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Hubby has killed one snake since we moved here 7 years ago. A rattlesnake of all things. He was in the yard working one spring. I had the windows open (good thing too!) and heard him shouting ‘bring the shotgun! bring the shotgun!’. So I did. When I got outside I noticed he was STANDING about 6” back from the head of a rattlesnake who was in enough of a depression in the ground hubby couldn’t have just stomped him. Hubby had been picking up limbs under a tree and noticed one of the limbs he’d just stood on moved and rattled...aie! Good thing I’d made him wear his steel toed work boots that day!
Hubby had a bad day. Snake had a worse day. IMHO we live in the country and rattlesnakes and cottonmouths have zillions of acres of untended woods right across the road. They should stay there! Any trespass on my property is a risky thing.
Cats are useless.
My Portuguese Podengo Medio and Ibizan Hound kill whatever they find, joyously and mercilessly.
Unfortunately, they can’t get the ones who stay ~inside~ the walls of this old log house.
For that, I need snakes.
I’ve been lucky.
In the 23 years I’ve been here, the coppers and rattlers have stayed up on the ridge.
If, however, they ever do venture into the yard, they’re out of luck.
I may love animals but I love *my* animals, more.
I find it hard to believe that a 19 foot python only weighed 38 pounds.
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That’s only 2 pounds per foot.
“The snake had pooed in the St Vincent de Paul store in Ingham and left crockery, clothes and other goods smashed and scattered all over the floor.”
Sounds like an unhappy customer; guess they didn’t have what he was looking for.
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