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Python on the loose in Pennsylvania after getting away from owner while on a walk

Python on the loose in Pennsylvania after getting away from owner while on a walk
POLICE THAT IT WAS LAST SPOTTED IN THIS TREE. >BRANDON BRAMMER SAID WHEN HE SAW POLICE OUTSIDE HIS HOME LAST NIGHT HE WASN’T EXPECTING THEM TO TELL HIM THEY FOUND A PYTHON IN HIS TREE. >> IT WAS SCAR WE WERE LIKE THERE’S A CREATURE THAT CAN LIKE EAT DOGS LAYING HERE SOMEWHERE >> MORGANGTOWN POLICE SAY A 15-FOOT PYTHON ESCAPED FROM A TRUCK IN SABRATON SLITHERED ACROSS THE ROADWAY AND UP A TREE ALONG LISTRAVIA AVENUE. >> HE SAW IT. WENT TO CALL FOR BACKUP AND IT WAS GONE >> I DIDN’T STAY HERE LAST NIGHT. I WAS LIKE I’M NOT EVEN TRYING TO DEAL WITH A 15 FOOT SNAKE IN THE YARD. >> EMILY SANDERS IS THE OWNER OF IN MORGANTOW SHE SAID POLICE HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF HER AND WHEN SHE FOUND OUT WHAT FOR SHE RUSHED DOWN TO TRY AND FIND IT. >> THEY SAID HE CLIMBED A TR BUT SOMETHING THAT BIG AND GIRTH ISN’T GOING TO CLIMB A TREE, ESPECIALLY THAT QUICK. THE OFFICER WENT TO GET A CELLPHONE, TURNED AROUND AND IT WAS GONE, SO I’M HOPING IT’S SMALLER BECAUSE SMALLER IS FASTER AND HE PROBABLY SWOOPED RIGHT DOWN AND TOOK OF >> SANDERS SAID SHE BELIEVES IT’S A BURMESE PYTHON AND IF IT IS 15 FEET COULD BE UP TO 150 POUNDS. SHE SAID IT’S BEEN EATING LIVE CHICKENS AND THAT IS A CONCERN -- ENCOURAGING THOSE WITH SMALL ANIMALS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO KEEP THEM INSIDE. >> IT’S PRETTY SCARY. I GOT KIDS AND DOGS AND I WAS AFRAID TO EVEN BRING THEM OUT TO USE THE BATHROOM >> FOR HOURS CREWS SEARCHED THE THICK BRUSH BUT NO SIG THESE NEIGHBORS HOPEFUL THAT THIS LARGE SNAKE IS FOUND SOON >> IF I FIND THE PYTHON FIRST THING I’M GOING TO DO IS SCREAM. SECOND THING I’M GOING TO DO IS TRY NOT TO FALL DOWN AND THEN I’M GOING TO RUN. >> MORGANTOWN POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE WHO SEES THE PYTHON TO GIVE THEM A CA
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Python on the loose in Pennsylvania after getting away from owner while on a walk
Police in a city outside of Pittsburgh are searching for a pet python that was reported missing Thursday. Previous video above: 15-foot python escapes in Morgantown, West Virginia (2019)The Duquesne police chief told sister station WTAE that the snake's owner took it for a walk Wednesday afternoon when the reptile got away from him.Police say the python is five to seven feet long.

Police in a city outside of Pittsburgh are searching for a pet python that was reported missing Thursday.

Previous video above: 15-foot python escapes in Morgantown, West Virginia (2019)

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The Duquesne police chief told sister station WTAE that the snake's owner took it for a walk Wednesday afternoon when the reptile got away from him.

Police say the python is five to seven feet long.