Live boa constrictor found in bin of Goodwill donations
Published in Cats & Dogs News
(UPI) An employee sorting through donations at a Goodwill store in Texas made an unusual discovery: a live boa constrictor snake.
Tassy Rodgers, who works in donation processing at Goodwill Industries in Fort Worth, said the albino snake was found in a bin of donations.
"I was tipping this machine, and when I brought the bin back the snake was hanging over the edge," Rodgers told KXAS-TV. I was a little freaked out and thinking this cannot be fake; it's gotta be real.
Goodwill assistant manager James Murphy said it was unclear whether the snake was intentionally donated to the store.
"I don't know if someone may have [dropped it off] maliciously," Murphy said. Maybe they wanted to get rid of it and weren't quite sure how, or maybe it just wanted to get warm. It was in a pile of clothing.
Murphy, an experienced snake owner, is taking care of the boa while officials try to track down its owner.
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