The python was eight feet long and weighed 40 pounds and found in a stack of clothes.
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A customer got a shock when a snake slithered out as she was browsing a stall at a flea market. Firefighters then safely removed the snake from the flea market.
According to the expert reptile handler, the snake appeared to have just eaten a meal and likely thought the stack of clothes would be a great place to linger while digesting.
A female shopper was the first to spot the sneaky snake, and informed the booth’s owner who in turn called the police.
“They’re not venomous. They’re constrictors”, Mullin said of pythons.
“It’s a good thing she didn’t grab it,” Lt. Scott Mullen told the Miami Herald.
Burmese pythons commonly are not indigenous to Florida, in other words turn now likely characteristics euthanasia.
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They say it’s fairly common to find pythons in Homestead this time of year.
