Created: 5/29/2009 11:22:56 PM 
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A Westside resident found something in her yard that many people probably hope they never find. A twelve-foot python.
Margaret Boswell says it started Thursday night, "About 9:30 - 10 o'clock, the dogs started raising Cain. So we turn around, tried to tell them to shut up. Course, they wouldn't shut up."
They wouldn't shut up because they knew what Margaret didn't. A very large, very exotic snake had somehow wandered into her yard.
They know the snake is twelve-feet long because they measured it with a measuring tape. Good thing it wasn't a bit longer, the tape only goes to fourteen feet.
Margaret did was most people wouldn't do with this unexpected visitor. She decided to take it in. "We got a pillow case and decided capture the snake so it wouldn't get killed."
"It's obviously a pet that either escaped or was let loose," Margaret says. She even goes so far as to call it "nice".
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are investigating. Under Florida law any snake over two inches in diameter has to be implanted with a microchip.
Officers have a scanner that can read the microchip and hopefully return this snake to its rightful owner.©2009 First Coast News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, rewritten, or redistributed.
