Crimsonfox
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OMG - glad I am not near Peel Terrace - I would be worried that it might get into my house
How'd you think I felt when it was half in my house! We've kept everything shut since yesterday.
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Rogue Snake on the loose (maybe a lost pet?)
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How'd you think I felt when it was half in my house! We've kept everything shut since yesterday.
wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
So.... where is it now? I don't like the things but I would have attempted to box it up somehow.
Maybe it fell from a Storm cloud yesterday after being lifted by a tornado somewhere. Weirder things have happened.
Maybe it fell from a Storm cloud yesterday after being lifted by a tornado somewhere. Weirder things have happened.
dr watson
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Snakes are quite keen on chimneys - apparently.So.... where is it now? I don't like the things but I would have attempted to box it up somehow.
Maybe it fell from a Storm cloud yesterday after being lifted by a tornado somewhere. Weirder things have happened.
If this happens, you could always send for Sooty / aka Nick Paine / aka All your chimney needs ltd............................ But there again, perhaps not - apparently he's no longer qualified to carry out work on chimneys!
Crimsonfox
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This is the last we saw of it:
http://i.imgur.com/FeRTSFn.jpg
I was thinking of boxing it but there was no clear way while it was in the window. Could have pushed it off the wall I guess into a box I didn't he anything to hand unfortunately.
joshua
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I agree with wmr, it needs securing and taking to a place of safety, as a pet it wont know how to hunt and will either starve or be killed either by being run over or sadly and more likely by some half wit being the "tough guy" either way the clock is ticking down for this poor abandonded soul.
joshua
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Crimsonfox
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He tried to trespass on my property! Clearly casing the joint the second time, waiting for us to leave.
When I get back home I'll prepare a box or something if we see him again.
Thanks for the link Joshua, I'll keep them in mind if it comes back.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
You could be right - he might be a snake-in-the-grass.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Indeed they are, when one of mine escaped I lost a flatmate for 2 weeks as my chimney was connected to his!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I've just got this response back from the link that Joshua provided...
Hi G, do you have any more information on the snake? If you could get them to give me a call tomorrow when I'm back in work and I can have a talk with them about what to do if it makes a reappearance.
Regards,
Hayley.
...might be worth giving them a call tomorrow on o1782 848234 - they don't open until 10am...01782 848234
Hi G, do you have any more information on the snake? If you could get them to give me a call tomorrow when I'm back in work and I can have a talk with them about what to do if it makes a reappearance.
Regards,
Hayley.
...might be worth giving them a call tomorrow on o1782 848234 - they don't open until 10am...01782 848234
wmrcomputers
Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
Maximbady that narrates the video is one SERIOUSLY funny dude!! Has anyone else clicked through his other videos after watching the snake one?
Crimsonfox
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It ended up being found by next door in their brown bin, understandably, on some compost material. They got something heavy on the lid and called the RSPCA who came and got it but not before putting up a bit of a fight. He thought Japanese Ratsnake but text back later as they thought it might be a cross between a Ratsnake and something else.
I was just disappointed I was at work when it happened. =/
Added a couple more pictures of him capturing it to the album: http://www.imgur.com/a/RRYVF
I was just disappointed I was at work when it happened. =/
Added a couple more pictures of him capturing it to the album: http://www.imgur.com/a/RRYVF
gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
Can I use this venerable site's thread to commend Crimsonfox's camera work, and of course tenacity, in not just splatting the serpent with a brick. Well done that person. A cracking story, with excellent photo's! 
When is this going to appear in the Snoozeletter,
(Asks the cerebrally challenged scoundrel, only too used to swelling his gargantuan ego by persuading that august organ with 'NON Stories', Ed)
When is this going to appear in the Snoozeletter,
(Asks the cerebrally challenged scoundrel, only too used to swelling his gargantuan ego by persuading that august organ with 'NON Stories', Ed)
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
What I did when I had a chimney snake* was to place a dead mouse in a carrier bag and leave it on my bedroom floor about 6' from the chimney. In the middle of the night the rustling woke me and I picked up the bag, she was trying to constrict the mouse so wrapped in a ball at the bottom. She was a little temperamental for the next few weeks but that was her usual self anyway!
* not a euthamism
* not a euthamism
gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
When I worked in a Scarborough at a naughty boy's establishment, (actually had the misnomer of a family centre, and I was referred to as a house husband! though no one called me dad! I was 22, & they were in their teens!), one of the boys bought a Corn Snake, kept it in an outbuilding and it escaped, and couldn't be found! When it was getting dark I suspended a light bulb a couple of foot off the floor. Switched the lights off and when I came back in an hour there was the said serpent. I told a mate this technique, when I worked at Burton Fire Station We were on duty, and he got called to the phone. It was his wife. He went as white as a sheet, as she revealed she had discovered. When their toddler had been telling them about 'the snake' he was not making up stories! There was a snake! Dan, Fireman, had a serpent phobia, and was not interested in going home. He phoned his father in law, related the light bulb trick, and sure enough, the technique worked its magic, and his in-law managed to capture the non venomous beast. He put it in a box, and took it to his house before taking it to a pet shop. Dan was so relived, when his wife phoned to say the coast was clear! 
He admitted he wouldn't have gone home if his in-law had not performed the task. The delighted fireman was far less happy when he found that the fella they had purchased the house of 2 months before, had lost the snake a month before they sold it to Dan. The fella had not seen fit to reveal the serpents escape, while they were exchanging contracts, if Dan had met the fella face to face I hate to think what could have happened! OK it was less than 2 foot, but it was a constricting python and Dan had a couple of youngsters!
Well those are my two snake tales, I hope you tolerate me sharing them!
He admitted he wouldn't have gone home if his in-law had not performed the task. The delighted fireman was far less happy when he found that the fella they had purchased the house of 2 months before, had lost the snake a month before they sold it to Dan. The fella had not seen fit to reveal the serpents escape, while they were exchanging contracts, if Dan had met the fella face to face I hate to think what could have happened! OK it was less than 2 foot, but it was a constricting python and Dan had a couple of youngsters!Well those are my two snake tales, I hope you tolerate me sharing them!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Well those are my two snake tales, I hope you tolerate me sharing them!
One more - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...g-firm-owner-finds-5ft-snake-in-hire-van.html ?