Acting on a complaint, a police officer from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation went to a house to investigate someone who was believed to be in possession of wildlife as a pet.
Sure enough, when officer Jeff Hull responded to the house he discovered a 13-foot, 2-inch albino Burmese python caged in a tank no bigger than 5-feet long.
“The subject admitted to ECO Hull that he was not prepared for how fast the animal would grow and that he recognized he could no longer care for it,” the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation wrote on Facebook.
Hull confiscated the python and issued the man tickets for possession of wildlife as a pet and for possessing dangerous wildlife without a permit.
Hull called the Woodhaven Wildlife Center, asking if it might have a large tote to transport the creature.
“I said, ‘Well come over and see if we have anything you can use,’” the Woodhaven Wildlife Center stated on Facebook. “So this is what we’re greeted with!!!! Now I love snakes but I have never seen one this size. I was speechless, and we all know I’m never that!”