About two weeks ago I got a call from a woman in Fall River that asked me if I could come out to remove a boa constrictor from the roof of a house. I politely declined the offer telling her that I don’t deal with snakes and suggested that she call the town animal control officer. Of course the whole time I was on the phone with her I was thinking that she was completely crazy. A boa constrictor on the roof of a 3-story house in Fall River? In October? That’s a good one!
Well you can imagine my surprise a few days later when I was surfing through some local newspaper stories and stumbled across a story about a huge boa constrictor at a home in Fall River. The snake was a pet and somehow got loose from a tenant’s apartment. The snake got into a wall and made it’s way up the the attic of the house. From the attic the snake was able to make it’s way out of an opening near the gutter and was seen soaking up the sun on the South side of the roof for several consecutive days.
Over a period of several days several people tried to capture the snake to no avail. During this period the snake was traveling through the attic and making it’s way up and down the walls of the building. That’s right an 8 foot boa constrictor living in the walls of a house……and my customers freak out over a few bats in their attic??!!! Imagine going to bed at night knowing that this snake was in the walls of your home? ‘
After a few days the homeowner finally caught the snake inside the attic of the house. The article in the newspaper didn’t say exactly HOW he managed to catch it but I can only imagine the tactic that was used.
This was one crazy call that I was wrong about. The lady that called to report the 8 foot snake on the roof in Fall River wasn’t crazy or lying.
Matt Grady
www.BatGuys.com
