A Florida man on his way to work at a high-end Louis Vuitton store was delayed by a 7-foot boa constrictor lounging in his driveway and an anxious neighbor who told police he was going to shoot it to death with his gun.
Jay Slagle, whose Palm Beach County home abuts a pocket of dense forest, said he initially saw the snake from his second-floor window on March 1 and by the time he got downstairs it had casually stretched out to its full length and appeared in no hurry to go anywhere.
“It was just super mellow,” said Slagle, 65, who until Sunday had lived in his Riviera Beach community for 23 years without any snake encounters…