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Man fined for unsupervised snake
upi ^ | May 26, 2010

Posted on 05/26/2010 11:56:47 AM PDT by 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."


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: jojoknows; multinames; napl; snake
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1 posted on 05/26/2010 11:56:47 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

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


2 posted on 05/26/2010 11:57:56 AM PDT by BossLady (No More Corona in Arizona!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: JoeProBono

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

3 posted on 05/26/2010 11:59:55 AM PDT by RichInOC (An erect Bill Clinton has no conscience.)
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To: BossLady

Only once? :O)


4 posted on 05/26/2010 12:00:08 PM PDT by library user
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To: JoeProBono

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


5 posted on 05/26/2010 12:01:56 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JoeProBono
I told you I didn't wanna see no mutha*&(@in' snakes anywhere near the continental breakfast area!!


6 posted on 05/26/2010 12:02:03 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: RichInOC

7 posted on 05/26/2010 12:05:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: library user

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


8 posted on 05/26/2010 12:10:43 PM PDT by BossLady (No More Corona in Arizona!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: JoeProBono

Ball Python, not Bull. Sheesh.

In any event, so what?


9 posted on 05/26/2010 12:16:00 PM PDT by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: JoeProBono

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.....


10 posted on 05/26/2010 12:19:21 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: RoadGumby
Good eyes!


11 posted on 05/26/2010 12:20:27 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows
Violated the leash law, did he?
12 posted on 05/26/2010 12:26:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Nothing can get a man into trouble faster than an unsupervised snake.


13 posted on 05/26/2010 12:29:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Just another day in Oceania.)
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To: JoeProBono

Oh I wish someone had clubbed that thing to death.


14 posted on 05/26/2010 12:30:23 PM PDT by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: JoeProBono
It was looking for the badgers.
15 posted on 05/26/2010 12:39:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Just another day in Oceania.)
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16 posted on 05/26/2010 12:43:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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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?

;-)


17 posted on 05/26/2010 12:43:49 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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18 posted on 05/26/2010 12:46:48 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JRochelle

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


19 posted on 05/26/2010 12:48:31 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Mark Sanford, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

}:-)4


20 posted on 05/26/2010 12:56:23 PM PDT by Moose4 (November 2, 2010--the day that "YES WE CAN" becomes "OH NO YOU DIN'T")
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