Clothes are clean; so’s the snake
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Mara Ranger of Gorham, Maine, will be paranoid as she does the laundry for awhile.
When she was removing clothes from the washer Wednesday, the clothes moved.
She told WMTW-TV, “I jumped back” and saw a snake. She slammed the lid and called for help.
Maine Animal Damage Control operator Richard Burton reached into the machine and pulled and pulled -- all 8 feet of a reticulated python.
Burton guesses the snake got in through water pipes. The snake’s future home will be York Animal Kingdom in York.
From now on, Ranger says, “I’m going to be looking in the tub first -- before and after, maybe even during, the rinse cycle.”
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