INVERCLYDE NOW (UK) 14 January 10 Shopworker Finds Escaped Snake
A Greenock shopworker got a shock when she realised there was a snake just a few feet away from her.
The woman was working at Window Blind Design in Sir Michael Street on Tuesday when she became aware of the creature.
It had managed to get into the store from neighbouring reptile shop Pro-Exotics which was closed at the time
The shopworker, who didn’t want to comment today, ran to a neighbouring hairdressers and called police.
The snake crawled into a long cardboard tube and the officers covered both ends while waiting for vet staff to arrive and take it away.
Police said the snake was about six-foot long.
A spokesman added: “Obviously we don’t have any training in dealing with snakes so the officers attending were a little apprehensive.”
Willaim Ewart of Pro-Exotics said the snake – a bull snake -- was harmless and had got out of an untaped box left at the shop by a customer.
He said there was no obvious hole the creature could have got through to enter the blind shop.
Shopworker Finds Escaped Snake