A MAN had the shock of his life when he opened his front door to find a deadly 8ft ANACONDA dumped on his doorstep.
Stunned Scott Adams found the giant green reptile – regarded as the biggest snake in the world – inside a container left outside his house earlier this week.
Fortunately the beast – which is native to tropical South America and suffocates its prey – was docile due to the early morning cold and Scott carefully unwrapped the snake, after it had been left outside his home in St Georges, Telford, on Monday.
But the 28-year-old has since had his elbow fractured by the massive snake after being
bitten while posing for pictures.
“I wasn’t expecting to find a snake that morning,” said 28-year-old. “Thankfully it was early in the morning and it had obviously been outside for a few hours so it was cold.
“They’re docile at that time of day so it wasn’t too hard to unwrap it, had it been later in the day he wouldn’t have been happy after the time in the box.
“He was heavy so I cleared a room and cautiously started to open the cover.
“To be honest I expected it to be a Burmese python, as they grow fast into huge snakes – but it was a very heavy eight-foot green anaconda.”
The box had been wrapped in a tied duvet cover and placed inside a plastic container with holes punched in it.
Once freed and the snake had warmed up Scott had to be incredibly careful against the powerful beast.
“Someone was taking a picture of it and it whipped round and bit me on the elbow,” he added.
“I’m pretty sure I have a fractured arm now, there’s no poison in an Anaconda but they are incredibly powerful.”
When asked how you deal with a snake on your doorstep, he added: “Carefully,”
“People get these when they are small and kind of cute without thinking that they will grow. An Anaconda can easily grow up to 30 feet.
“People feel embarrassed because they can’t cope with a snake that big and don’t know who to ask, but normally they call us and we go and get them, not just leave it in a residential area outside my front door.”
Scott, who runs an animal encounter business for schools and birthday parties, for six years, has now decided to take the snake in, which he has christened Tiny, and add it to his burgeoning family.
The word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.
