Another one.-- *Released Burmese into a nearby Bush*

[tJokkie_]

Durban - Three adult men took 20 minutes to catch a massive exotic snake and pack it into two bags.

Snake expert Mark Enslin identified it from photographs as a Burmese python.

A resident of Verulam, north of Durban, sounded the alarm after seeing the serpent in the garage of her family home on Tuesday evening.

It was more than three metres long.

Capture

Fearing for the safety of her children, she called the nearby control centre of security company Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa).

“Reaction officers then called for assistance and made several attempts to contact a snake catcher and a snake park,” said Rusa chief Prem Balram.

“Three officers then responded, and managed to stop the snake from entering the home.”

He said they had no choice but to capture the snake for the safety of the family, and remove it from the premises.

“The snake was then measured and released unharmed into dense bush near a river after no help from the snake park had arrived,” Balram said.

Enslin believed the snake may have once been someone’s pet, or used by a sangoma.

“The problem with releasing them [exotic pythons] into the wild is that they can breed with rock pythons resulting in hybrids,” Enslin said.

He added that Burmese pythons were not aggressive creatures.

The homeowner said the snake had been around for three years.


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[froot]

“Three officers then responded, and managed to stop the snake from entering the home.”

Whoopie doo.

[nbdreyer]

"The homeowner said that the snake had been around for three years"... That just raises question marks...

[Pieter89]

Unbelievable - what is going on...

[Snake-fanatic]

How can you release a exotic in to the wild...?!!
I admire the fact that they caught the snake... its already caught, take it to a vet or pet shop. i am not sure where the burmese was caught and if S.A.python occur there, but it is not wurth it to endanger our species any further!

[Snake-fanatic]

o ok, I missed it, it is in Durban... even worse!!

[Daniellouw]

Can you believe it! I am absalutely speachless!!
They should have put more efort into finding someone to help out! The police phone me all the time!! Maybe they should have gone on SAreptiles! Ha

[Bushviper]

I hope this entire crew are prosecuted in accordance with the biodiversity act. Possibly someone in Durban can lay a formal complaint and insist that they are prosecuted. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.