THE SENTINEL (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) 09 September 06 A real loo-loo of a visitor (Tatiana Zarnowski)

Yes, Jeff Goss has already heard the one about the snake in the soup.

The Market Cross Pub co-owner got quite a bit of “ribbing” Friday at the Carlisle restaurant after he came face-to-face with a 4-foot-long boa constrictor in his second floor office bathroom after 9 a.m.

“I’m very afraid of snakes,” he says. “To me, it looked huge.”

Goss was leaving the bathroom when he spied the reptile beside a trash can. He dashed out, shut the door — then peeked back in to see the snake moving across the floor.

“We didn’t know what to do,” he says. “Who do you call?”

So he summoned a friend who isn’t as terrified of the creatures, and the friend put the boa into a box and took it to the police station.

Then Goss heard that a third-floor tenant in the building attached to his office had a boa constrictor that was missing for two weeks.

The first-floor pub spans both buildings, and the upper levels of both buildings are split into apartments.

Goss says his tenant isn’t allowed to have pets and police are arranging for an organization to find a new home for the animal.

Now that the panic has worn off, he’s just glad his 76-year-old mother, who helps him in the mornings at the pub, didn’t find the snake first.

“If she would have run into that thing, I’m afraid she would have had a heart attack or something,” Goss says.
A real loo-loo of a visitor

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