3-Foot-Long Python Found in South Side Woman's Apartment

CHICAGO, IL — It's bad enough that the city has a rat problem, but do residents now have to worry about giant snakes?

An Englewood woman found a 3-foot python Monday night in her South Side apartment after returning home, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report. She called police at about 10:05 p.m. after her uninvited house guest introduced itself to her.

Chicago Animal Care and Control then were called to the scene in the 6500 block of South Normal Avenue, to handle the situation, the report stated. No one was hurt, the report added.

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There was no information concerning what type of python was capture and how the snake ended up in the woman's home.

Exotic—and potentially dangerous—snakes on the loose is nothing new to the Chicago area. In August, the carcass of a 3-foot-2-inch venomous rattlesnake not indigenous to Illinois was found near the entrance of a Northbrook park.

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Last year, Geneva residents were hunting for a possible poisonous cottonmouth water moccasin that was on the loose after a roofer said he spotted it in the community.

More via the Chicago Sun-Times

Burmese python. (photo by Mariluna | Wikimedia Commons)

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