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MIAMI — Once again, a python has been done in by its dinner. After one python exploded after trying to eat an alligator, a 10-foot African rock python was apparently trapped by the turkey it ate at a nursery. The snake couldn’t slither back through a fence to digest the bird. Nursery owner Felix Azquz, 77, noticed one turkey was missing early Monday. Then he saw the bulging snake. “It scared me,” Azquz said. “I ran outside to call the police.” The snake will be taken to a zoo, said Capt. Al Cruz of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit....

Miami Gardens, Florida - Elidia Rodriguez of Miami Gardens had been looking for her year-old Siamese cat for two days when her son pointed out the bulging Burmese python slithering in her backyard. Experts say that bulge in the 12-foot snake is probably the missing 15-pound cat. Rodriguez got the cat last year as a post-hurricane gift. She named the cat Frances, after the storm. The snake was spotted in Rodriguez's backyard yesterday. Experts with the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit says Frances wouldn't have stood a chance against the larger predator. The snake was captured and taken to the...

A python's eyes were apparently bigger than its stomach. Scientists in Florida are puzzling over a Burmese python that scarfed down a six-foot alligator before its stomach ruptured. They found the carcasses in an isolated part of Florida's Everglades National Park. Photos show the gator's hind legs and tail sticking out of the 13-foot snake's ruptured gut. The Miami Herald reported that scientists can't figure out how the snake got the critter down. The snake's head is also missing. Experts say the clash is interesting, but it also shows the exotic snakes are competing with gators to top the food...

SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) - The new residents of a Sedalia duplex were surprised to learn a 4-foot-6-inch constrictor didn't move out when the old residents left. The family made the discovery Sunday when the ball python slithered out from under the dishwasher. The snakes like warm, humid air, making the dishwasher a perfect place to hide. Stefanie Leafty had just told her two children - ages 5 and 3 - to get ready for bed when she saw something on the floor underneath the dishwasher. "I thought it was a toy, and I was going to pick it up," she...

Python beheaded Sandnes woman Anne-Grethe Lagerren got the shock of her life when she found what was apparently a king python under her sofa. The woman was doing her Thursday evening vacuuming when she saw a snake's tail sticking out from under her living room sofa. "I screamed and ran into the kitchen but my husband said I should calm down. Easier said than done, I am still shaken," Lagergren told newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad. Her husband Leif tried to get the snake out with a broom but decided it was wiser to call police. "I couldn't believe my eyes, it...

And now for something completely familiar. More than 35 years on from their first appearance, prepare for a fresh outbreak of Monty Python mania. Who would have thought the old boys had so much blood in them? The biggest buzz on Broadway this spring is flying around Eric Idle’s new musical based, loosely, on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Early indications are that Spamalot will indeed be the biggest hit of the year. Variety reported that the show, which officially opens on March 17 at the Shubert Theater, grossed more than $700,000 in its first seven New York previews...

Parrot paranoia betrays burglars The parrot's ability to talk made the burglars fearful A gang of thieves who burgled a house were swiftly caught by police when they returned for the family's pet parrot. The three burglars had made a clean getaway when they began to worry that the parrot might give them away after overhearing one of their nicknames. They returned to the house, in Memphis, Tennessee, US, but were spotted by police as they loaded Marshmallow, a green six-year-old parrot, into a car. The gang were caught after crashing, but the parrot flew away and escaped. Police...

October 5 Today is the Anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus! The Flying Circus debuted this day, 35 years ago, on television at 10:50 PM on BBC-1. The world was never the same. (October 5, 1969)

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Man Finds Ball Python Under Seat Of Rental Car POSTED: 7:40 am EDT June 29, 2004 MADISON, Wis. -- A motorist found a slithery surprise not covered in his rental car agreement when a ball python stuck its head out from between his legs. "He was completely in shock," said Officer Laura Walker. "I mean he said he was lucky he didn't crash the car." When Walker and animal control officer Tim Frank arrived to help Sunday, the 2 1/2-foot constrictor snake was coiled around the seat's base, Walker said. With some effort, Frank removed the black and gold snake...

Python Tries to Eat Boston Owner BOSTON - Police rescued a Boston woman from the jaws of her 7-foot Burmese python after the snake clamped onto her arm and started squeezing. Wanda Nunes, 43, told the Boston Herald that her python Moma went for her arm shortly before she planned to feed her two rats Saturday morning. "She must have smelled the rats because she reached back and lunged for my arm," Nunes said. "Before I knew it, she was all wrapped around me. ... Every time I tried to pry her off or move, she just got tighter around...

Worldwide Open Auditions for Young Monty Pythons 2/16/04 6:37:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Entertainment Desk Contact: Tex Wall of Hippofilms, 310-445-9157; e-mail: pubdept@ginandtonicmovie.com LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Hippofilms, a Los Angeles-based film production company, has announced a worldwide casting call for the roles of the young members of Monty Python, the famed British comedy troupe. The first open audition is scheduled in Hollywood, Calif., on March 20, 2004. It will be supervised by Hippofilms' president, David Eric Brenner. Subsequent auditions, in New York, London and Tokyo will be announced in the near future. Hippofilms will work closely...

KENDAL, Indonesia (Reuters) - It's still a big snake, just not a record-breaker. When a recreation park in Indonesia put a huge reticulated python on show last week, keepers insisted to reporters it was 49 feet long. That made it the longest ever caught. But amid growing skepticism of the claim, a photographer working for Reuters returned to the Curugsewu park in the small central Java town of Kendal Wednesday with a measuring tape. The snake's true length -- around 21 feet "I have no idea why the snake has shrunk," said one keeper when asked about the discrepancy, as...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49 feet long and weighs nearly 990 pounds, a local official said. If confirmed, it would be the largest snake ever kept in captivity. Hundreds of people have flocked to see the snake at a primitive zoo in Curugsewu village on the country's main island of Java. Local government official Rachmat said the reticulated python measured 48 feet 8 inches and weighed in at 983 pounds. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest ever captured snake to be 32 feet. The heaviest --...

Officials: World's Largest Snake Caught - Snake Reportedly Eats 3 Or 4 Dogs A MonthDecember 29, 2003 JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49.21 feet long and weighs nearly 992.07 pounds, an official said Monday. If confirmed, it would be the largest snake ever kept in captivity. Hundreds of people have flocked to see the snake at a primitive zoo in Curugsewu village on the country's main island of Java, Republika reported. It splashed two large pictures of the reptile across its back page. Local government official Rachmat said the reticulated python...

A primitive zoo in Indonesia is holding a 49-foot-python captured in a forest in Sumatra, a report said. If its vital statistics are confirmed, the python could be the world's longest snake. The reptile measures 14.85 metres (49 feet) and weighs in at 447 kilograms (983 pounds), the Suara Merdeka regional newspaper reported Monday. The serpent, which staff in the small recreation park have christened Kembang Wangi or Frangrant Flower, was found in a forest in Jambi on Sumatra island and was purchased from its captor before being put on show and could be the largest snake found in nearly...

BANGKOK (AFP) - A Thai man remained unconscious in hospital after being nearly asphyxiated by a four-metre python he was transporting on a motorbike for release in a national park, police said. Emergency workers called to a roadside Tuesday in Prachinburi province, 136 kilometres (84 miles) east of Bangkok, were shocked to discover the python tightly coiled around victim Samrauy Phonlerk, a local villager. More than a dozen people beat the snake with sticks for over 20 minutes before the 20-kilo (44-pound) reptile released its death grip and was eventually subdued, local police Lieutenant Chumphol Buachum told AFP. Samrauy, 43,...

<p>An Indianapolis mother is suing Uncle Bill's Pet Center after a 10-foot-long Burmese python bit her son.</p> <p>Robin Post says her son Travis was also strangled by the snake in the May 2002 incident at the store, 4829 W. 38th St.</p>

Thoughts for Father's Day: ''A Father's Duty'' Posted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, June 11, 2003 I'm fortunate that I'm the father of two wonderful, beautiful and intelligent children. I'm not so fortunate about my ex-wife, of course, but that's another matter entirely. My kids live in England with their mother, and I don't get to see them nearly as much as I'd like, mainly due to my work and my location. But be that as it may, as any father I try to be involved in their lives as much as I can be, and give them the benefit of...

Thoughts for Father's Day: ''A Father's Duty'' Posted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, June 11, 2003 I'm fortunate that I'm the father of two wonderful, beautiful and intelligent children. I'm not so fortunate about my ex-wife, of course, but that's another matter entirely. My kids live in England with their mother, and I don't get to see them nearly as much as I'd like, mainly due to my work and my location. But be that as it may, as any father I try to be involved in their lives as much as I can be, and give them the benefit of...