~misfit~ wrote:
Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Anne Welsh Jackson" typed:
"shazzbat" wrote:

I hope you'll all check your compost heaps carefully -
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...ugh_allotment/
That snake looks suspiciously like a constrictor to me.

No way would I wind it round my neck! He must be mad!!

Looks like a Reticulated Python to me. I'm disappointed the article doesn't
say.


Wrong pattern for a Reticulated, it's actually a Burmese Python.

Unfortunately it's not the first time, and no doubt won't be the last,
that one has been found roaming the UK countryside. People often find
they can't cope with such a large snake once it reaches adulthood and
subsequently struggle to rehome them so instead they let them go free.

Fortunately, they're not a particularly aggressive snake although due to
the sheer size of them they can severely injure or kill a person, and
indeed have done, but mostly due to human error and stupidity.