A bite from a Python is painful and can inflict deep lacerations." As Rumsey held the snake with both hands, the zookeeper showed the serpent to the residents. "Sorry it took a while," he said.

A Clearwater man recently got a new couch, but it came with a surprise: a red tail python. Police physically removed the couch from his condo, plucked the 5-foot boa, and gave it a one-way trip to ...

Snakes alive!! Here’s a call you don’t see every day. Resident at Marilyn Pines calls because he’s got a snake in his condo and it’s hiding in his couch. Officers carry the couch outside ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — A Pinellas County man called police Saturday afternoon when he found a nearly five-foot-long red-tailed boa deep inside his new couch, Clearwater police said.