Strange News - AP
GLOCESTER, R.I. - The police are looking for him, the town has been put on alert, but Slick remains on the lam. The 14-foot-long yellow and orange Burmese python slithered from his 300-gallon tank on July 4.
Snake owner Jeffrey Fine called the police Friday morning to report that Slick had slinked off sometime after 11 the night before, when Fine checked the tank before going to bed.
Fine said it was his fault that Slick got out. He hadn't tightened the clip on the right end of the 6-foot-long tank as much as he should have.
"I feel terrible that he's gone, and I want him back," Fine told The Providence Journal.
The snake worked his way out of the tank, onto the floor and up onto the computer table. Slick slid past the computer, knocked a picture frame down, nudged a clock out of the way and pushed up against the screen in the window that looks out on the lake.
The window is about 10 feet from the water. Slick moves very slowly on land, but if he has gone into the lake, he could move quickly there and there's no telling where he'd come out.
Slick is not venomous and doesn't have fangs, Fine said. The snake eats rats and rodents.
"He does not eat small children," Fine said. "He couldn't even eat a cat. He could eat a kitten, but not a cat."
