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Ontario motel manager finds odd lodger: a 1.5-metre-long boa constrictor

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Jan, 2015 10:32 AM

    OWEN SOUND, Ont. — A central Ontario motel manager found a strange visitor lodging in one of the rooms on the weekend.

    Police were called to the motel in Owen Sound on Saturday after the manager discovered a 1 1/2-metre-long super salmon boa constrictor.

    Officers were able to wrangle the slithery customer and take it to a local pet store.

    Further investigation revealed the reptile's 25-year-old owner had been renting a room for the past month before travelling to Nova Scotia.

    When contacted, the man told police he'd left instructions for a friend — the snake's original owner — to retrieve the boa constrictor and take it to a pet store.

    The friend never showed up and the snake was left alone in the room for five or six days until it was discovered.

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