PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A woman shopping for groceries says she was surprised to find a snake on her shopping cart while picking out produce at a New York supermarket. Laura Walitsky says she was at Wegmans in Pittsford on Monday evening when her daughter spotted the hitchhiking reptile wrapped on the bottom of her […]
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Police warn residents of python on the loose in Camden
Camden police are warning the public that a large ball python is on the loose somewhere in the Knox County town. “The PD this morning wants to make everyone aware that a ball python has gotten out of its enclosure and is most likely roaming the area on Sea Street,” the Camden Police Department said […]
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No sign of missing snake in Auburn
AUBURN — There’s been no sign of a snake from China that escaped last week from the former Pioneer Plastics facility, Maine Warden Service spokesman Cpl. John MacDonald said Monday. Panolam Surface Systems on Pionite Road hasn’t contacted the Maine Warden Service since early Thursday when a worker opened an exterior bag of a shipping […]
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Wardens searching Panolam plant in Auburn for snake from Chinese crate
AUBURN (WGME) — The Maine Warden Service says a snake escaped from a crate after a worker in Auburn opened it on Thursday. They have not been able to find the snake. Wardens say a worker at Panolam Surface Systems, formerly known as Pioneer Plastic, was opening a shipping crate that they received from China […]
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Auburn police nab snake for breaking into car, release it without bail
Auburn Police Officer Travis Barnies detains a snake that was found in someone’s car Tuesday. The snake was released on its own recognizance. AUBURN (AP) — A Maine driver got the scare of his life when he found a snake slithering in his car. The unidentified driver called the Auburn police Tuesday, telling a dispatcher […]
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The circus comes to town
AUBURN — The Garden Bros. Circus opened Tuesday afternoon at the Norway Savings Bank Arena with a sold-out show. Performers put on a number of entertaining acts for the family audience, including gymnastics routines and edge-of-your-seat BMX tricks. The clown duo kept children laughing with its cat-and-mouse antics. They also occasionally brought up audience members […]
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Canadian police say snake strangled sleeping boys
CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick — A python escaped from its enclosure at a pet store in Canada, slithered through a ventilation system into an upstairs apartment and killed two young boys as they slept, police said Monday. The brothers, aged five and seven, were visiting the apartment of a friend above Reptile Ocean Inc., an exotic […]