A teenage girl was shocked to discover a huge albino snake curled up on top of the radiator in her bathroom.
Hannah
Brierley, 16, thought her mother was playing a prank when she spotted
the six foot-long northern pine snake on a bath mat which was hung up to
dry at her home in Rochdale, Manchester.
She
stared at the reptile for a few minutes until it moved and quickly
called for her 40-year-old mother, Karen Marriott, to come upstairs.
Mrs
Marriott attempted to call the RSCPA at 7am yesterday morning but after
she was unable to get through she panicked and dialled 999.
She said: 'Hannah was calm at first. She can't even deal with spiders, but I don't think she thought it was real.
'She'd been looking at it for a few minutes until it moved. She thought I was having a joke.
'I felt like a wally dialling 999 but I didn't know what to do. I'm frightened because I don't know how it got in.
'It was like something out of a film. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Everybody needed a wee, but we couldn't go.'
Craig
Wallace, a detective based at Rochdale police station, overheard the
control room call and although it's not a police matter, he offered to
help as he has experience with keeping snakes.
Det
Con Wallace used a pillowcase to capture the white snake and took it
back to the station, before being transferred into the care of the
RSPCA.
The
officer added: 'I keep snakes so I know a lot about them. It was a
northern pine snake. They can give a nasty bite, but they're not
venomous.
'If
it did bite you, you would struggle to get it off. I put my hand
through a pillow slip then got the back of it's head and wrapped it
up.'
He
believes the reptile may be a family pet which has either escaped or
been set free and slithered into the house on during the recent warm
weather.
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