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10-26-2011, 02:23 PM
Within the space of 24 hours, Toronto police responded to two separate calls of snakes in nearby apartment buildings in the city's west end, including a metre-long python that was found in a toilet.
Staff Sgt. Leslie Hildred said officers from 12 Division responded to a call of a snake loose in an apartment building on Woolner Avenue, located near Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue West, at 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
“Tenants found a snake had come through the wall. It was a three-foot corn snake,” Hildred told CBC News.
Then at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to another call of a snake in an adjacent apartment building.
Police removed a python that had been spotted slithering in a toilet. The snake was taken to the police station and handed over to animal control officers.
“Like finding a stray dog, now we’re finding stray snakes,” Hildred told CBC News. “I’m sure the tenants were quite shocked.”
Neither snake is venomous, police said.
CBC's Lorenda Reddekkopp was at the scene on Wednesday morning.
“It’s unknown where the snakes came from, if they’re originally from the same location or if it’s a coincidence that two nights in a row you have snakes being found so close to each other," she reported.
The snakes will be turned over to a reptile zoo if no one comes forward to claim them.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/10/26/snakes-apartment.html
Staff Sgt. Leslie Hildred said officers from 12 Division responded to a call of a snake loose in an apartment building on Woolner Avenue, located near Jane Street and St. Clair Avenue West, at 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
“Tenants found a snake had come through the wall. It was a three-foot corn snake,” Hildred told CBC News.
Then at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to another call of a snake in an adjacent apartment building.
Police removed a python that had been spotted slithering in a toilet. The snake was taken to the police station and handed over to animal control officers.
“Like finding a stray dog, now we’re finding stray snakes,” Hildred told CBC News. “I’m sure the tenants were quite shocked.”
Neither snake is venomous, police said.
CBC's Lorenda Reddekkopp was at the scene on Wednesday morning.
“It’s unknown where the snakes came from, if they’re originally from the same location or if it’s a coincidence that two nights in a row you have snakes being found so close to each other," she reported.
The snakes will be turned over to a reptile zoo if no one comes forward to claim them.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/10/26/snakes-apartment.html