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Python found in school locker
NEWTON, Mass., (UPI) -- A Massachusetts school custodian said he discovered a 3-foot-long ball python while cleaning out lockers at a high school.
Ed Reardon, a custodian for the Newton School Department, said he was cleaning out lockers at the old North High School last week so abandoned textbooks could be donated when the snake fell from the top shelf of a locker, the Daily News Tribune, Waltham, Mass., reported Wednesday.
"When I pulled (a notebook) out, a snake just fell to my feet," Reardon said.
Reardon said he grabbed the snake by the back of the neck and gave it water before taking it to Newtonville Pet.
"The women (at the store) identified it as a python, and I asked if she could take it off of my hands, and she called her boss, who accepted it," Reardon said.
The custodian said he reported the name of the student printed on the notebook to the school's principal.
"I'm more concerned about the cruelty of it," he said. "This is not a way of leaving school for the summer by leaving a defenseless animal in a locker without food or water."
NEWTON, Mass., (UPI) -- A Massachusetts school custodian said he discovered a 3-foot-long ball python while cleaning out lockers at a high school.
Ed Reardon, a custodian for the Newton School Department, said he was cleaning out lockers at the old North High School last week so abandoned textbooks could be donated when the snake fell from the top shelf of a locker, the Daily News Tribune, Waltham, Mass., reported Wednesday.
"When I pulled (a notebook) out, a snake just fell to my feet," Reardon said.
Reardon said he grabbed the snake by the back of the neck and gave it water before taking it to Newtonville Pet.
"The women (at the store) identified it as a python, and I asked if she could take it off of my hands, and she called her boss, who accepted it," Reardon said.
The custodian said he reported the name of the student printed on the notebook to the school's principal.
"I'm more concerned about the cruelty of it," he said. "This is not a way of leaving school for the summer by leaving a defenseless animal in a locker without food or water."
