Jeepers Creepers
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Manchester residents can now safely go to the toilet apparently. But the quote from the BBC article is disturbing: “A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) said it was not uncommon for snakes to be found in household sewage pipes.” Not uncommon? And the one place I thought I was safe…
Yikes! That’s it - I’m getting a portable potty. And didn’t England get rid of all their snakes (St. Patrick?) or was it only Ireland?
Rats! The last male bastion for solitude falls by the wayside. How do I read my New Yorker in peace with this story in the back of my mind. Remindes me of this chap from down-under named Robert who acquired a Boa as a pet. Things were fine for a few weeks but one morning he woke up to find that he had 13 new pet Boas. This is also the time I learnt that Boas give live birth unlike most other snakes.
Apparently he got $25 for each baby boa at the local pet store. I wonder if he was having me on, while quietly flushing the little buggers down the toilet.
That is St Patrick and Ireland. There is a lovely short story titled “There are No Snakes in Ireland” written by Jeffery Archer. I believe it is in the collection titled “Quiver full of arrows”.
Well, at least let’s hope that alligators don’t come out of the loos and have a deathmatch with boas in there. That would be messy.
Dave Barry reports about a python in a cornfield in Iowa. What’s up with the sudden spurt of serpent news?
Could it be that all the crazies who desired these serpents as pets in the late 90s got married, had kids and decided that they couldn’t host Boas and toddlers under the same roof and quickly found the nearest toilet/park/pond/cornfield to be rid of them. Now these boas have ‘toddlers’ of their own and are adapting to toilets, ponds, and cornfields
The boa toddlers need to be disciplined. Bring out the whip, I say.
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