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Monster snake surprises honeymoon couple
WHEN Rebecca Booker-Baxter and her husband Tim came home from their honeymoon they arrived to find two things.
The first was a note on her doormat asking if anyone had seen a missing snake.
And the second was a 7ft python in their bathroom.
The giant snake had escaped from a neighbour's house in Priory Road, Eastney, and got into the newlyweds' terraced home via their upstairs toilet.
By the time they got back from the USA on Tuesday, tired from a 30-hour journey, the snake was dehydrated, grumpy, and likely to strike anyone who came near.
Rebecca said: 'We found this note that had been put through the door, which said there was a large snake missing, but it was harmless and friendly.
'Jokingly we had a look around the house to see if we could see it, not actually thinking it would be there.
'Then Tim went upstairs to go to the bathroom and he just said "there's a really big snake in here".'
Mrs Booker-Baxter, 27, didn't believe her new husband Tim Booker, 32, but went upstairs to take a look.
She said: 'There, wrapped around the taps, was this massive snake.
'The toilet was dry and had marks on it where the snake had obviously used it to get in.'
Mrs Booker-Baxter contacted her neighbour who, with a lot of coaxing, managed to get the python safely into a box and take it back to its real home.
It's not the first time Mrs Booker-Baxter has had a close encounter of the scaly kind.
She said: 'About two years ago I found a snake skin in the house, but no snake. I knocked on a few doors and my neighbour - the same one - had lost a corn snake.
'I dined out on that story for years, and I'll do the same with this one.'
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