Watch: Florida deputies rescue python from pool deck, then adopt it

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – A surprise visitor of serpentine sorts was rescued from a home over the Fourth of July weekend, and soon made its way into the heart of a Florida deputy.

Bodycam footage from the incident shows a deputy arriving at a home in Lehigh Acres in southwest Florida, where a large ball python had slithered its way by the pool.

“Oh wow,” says Deputy Roedding as he looks at the snake. “Yeah, it’s a python.”

Roedding can be then seen holding onto the tail of the snake and pulling the animal out from behind a cooler where it was hiding…

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