Man fined for unsupervised snake

upi ^ | May 26, 2010

[JoeProBono]

MASON CITY, Iowa, - An Iowa court fined a man $65 for allowing his pet snake, a bull python, to wander the halls of the Holiday Inn.

Michael Salo, 25, was fined Tuesday in a Mason City magistrate court under the city's animal control ordinance for letting the 5-year-old snake slither around the hallways of the hotel without supervision while Salo was staying at the hotel May 1, The (Mason City) Globe Gazette reported Wednesday.

Hotel manager Brandy Smith Branstad said employees discovered the snake at about 7 a.m. May 1 and the reptile is not believed to have come into contact with other patrons.

"The man was a guest at the hotel. The snake was not," Branstad said Tuesday.

She said Salo apologized after the incident.

"We like to think of ourselves as pet friendly," she said, "but when we say that, we really mean cats and dogs."

[JoeProBono]

[BossLady]

I met a guy with an unsupervised snake once..... ;)

[RichInOC]

“Hey, baby, wanna watch my snake for a while?”

[library user]

Only once? :O)

[JimSEA]

To quote John McEnroe, “You have got to be kidding me!!!”

[Carpe Cerevisi]

I told you I didn't wanna see no mutha*&(@in' snakes anywhere near the continental breakfast area!!

[JoeProBono]

[BossLady]

Well.....this is a family oriented site....HAHAHA! ;)

[RoadGumby]

Ball Python, not Bull. Sheesh.

In any event, so what?

[CSM]

If I owned a snake, I would not let it roam free. I’d be afraid of someone harming the snake. I have a feeling that if I had seen it in a public area, I might have done some damage.....

[JoeProBono]

Good eyes!

[a fool in paradise]

Violated the leash law, did he?

[Slings and Arrows]

Nothing can get a man into trouble faster than an unsupervised snake.

[JRochelle]

Oh I wish someone had clubbed that thing to death.

[Slings and Arrows]

It was looking for the badgers.

[ClearCase_guy]

[WayneS]

Five years old?

That’s like, 25 or 30 in “snake years”, so the animal is an adult and shouldn’t REQUIRE suprevision, should it?

;-)

[JoeProBono]

[WayneS]

Five iron? Sand wedge? Maybe one of those titanium drivers?

[Moose4]

Mark Sanford, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

}:-)4