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MONTREAL (CBC) - A woman in downtown Montreal got the fright of her life Sunday night when she discovered an almost metre-long python under her bed. The 31-year-old awoke in her Pine Avenue apartment around midnight after hearing a strange noise. She reached under her bed and felt the snake, Montreal police Const. Olivier Lapointe said.6 f' }7 O3 e A8 a5 L2 k8 j
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"She was lying in bed when she heard a noise that came from under her bed, and when she looked underneath the bed she saw that it was a snake," he said. "She was a little bit panicked."
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The woman shone a flashlight under the bed to confirm what she thought she saw, and then called 911, police said.
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The snake, a non-venomous python, tried to escape through a hole in the wall when police arrived, but one officer managed to grab it by the tail, and hold on to it.
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+ M, i7 Z. e$ }2 i- S8 q! YThe officer wrangled the snake into a lidded plastic container and took it down to the police station. No one was hurt in the incident.2 c4 l9 s a- |
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(網路圖片--Python snake; not this one) |
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