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When airport security staff opened up a package marked “fragile” they found a rare albino reticulated python
Airport security staff are used to seeing some odd shapes when they X-ray parcels... but the contents aren’t usually alive.
When they opened up a package marked “fragile” they found a rare albino reticulated python.
Post office workers had unwittingly passed the 8ft snake around for eight hours before it was about to be put on a plane at Stansted airport in Essex.
The animal’s owner from nearby Harlow had sold it on the internet and was sending it to the buyer in Exeter – in a breach of Royal Mail rules on transporting live animals.
RSPCA inspector Steve Reeves said: “All the machine picked up was that there was something organic in the shape of a snake – so they must have got quite a shock when they opened up the package.”
He added: “Snakes are very sensitive to their environment. It could suffer if it was put into a cold place like an airplane hold.”
RSPCA officer Sophie Adwick said: “This python has specialised needs and is not some object to be tossed into the mail so thoughtlessly.”
The new owner is having the snake picked up by a specialist courier.
something alive and snake shaped, who could have guessed ? 