City workers find 5-foot snake in storm drain

[Hum]

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Work crews in Canada discovered a 5-foot long snake trapped in a drain pipe beneath streets in Victoria.

 

According to CHEK, city crews discovered the snake after sending a camera into the storm drain while investigating sunken pavement nearby.

 

Animal control officers attempted to coax the snake out using heat, mice and a snare but the snake refused to budge.

 

Victoria's manager of utility operations Mike Ippin told the CBC the snake, a common corn snake, may actually be "quite happy" inside the pipe.

 

"It could be there for quite a while," he said. "It's very hot outside and the pipe is fairly shallow so it may not be feeling any discomfort at all."

 

Animal control officers believe the snake may be an escaped pet, although a missing corn snake was not reported in the area.

City officials said it would be impossible for the snake to turn up in anyone's plumbing as the pipe is a storm drain and not a sewer drain.

 

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[xendrome]

Not sure why this is even a story? Snake, doing snake things... living it's life.

[Hum]

Wouldn't want it crawling up thru my pipes.

[DocM]

12 hours ago, xendrome said:

Not sure why this is even a story? Snake, doing snake things... living it's life.

Exactly.

 

We had 7-8+ foot blackk rat snakes, a constrictor, on the farm. We let them  keep rats and other rodents out of the barn & outbuildings, and we didn't go into a hand waving panic when they sunned themselves on the tree next to the picnic table.  

 

Had to keep them out of the chicks and eggs though.

[FloatingFatMan]

Well if no-one else is going to, I guess it's down to me!

 

Snakes in a Drain!!