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  • Man fined for unsupervised snake

    05/26/2010 11:56:47 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 31 replies · 655+ views
    upi ^ | May 26, 2010
    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...