A guy was discovered dead with more than 100 snakes– some poisonous– inside his house in Maryland.
The 49- year-old had actually not been seen for a day, triggering a neighbour to knock on the door prior to identifying him unconscious on the flooring.
He was noticable dead at the scene however the cause is still being figured out by a medical officer, according to NBC Washington
When the authorities arrived they discovered tanks holding 124 snakes both poisonous and non-venomous, consisting of pythons, cobras, rattlesnakes and black mambas.
Animal control officers contacted us to the scene stated each reptile appeared to have actually been looked after thoroughly.
‘They were all very properly secured. They were racked. He did not keep a lot of furniture inside the home so there was no place if a snake, for example, were to escape, where it could hide or hurt anybody,’ a Charles County spokesperson stated.
She included: ‘Our chief animal control officer said in his more than 30 years of experience, he had not encountered this kind of thing before.’
The non-venomous snakes were to be required to Virginia by a certified handler while the poisonous snakes were sent out to North Carolina with a 2nd certified handler.
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