Toronto police seize venomous snake
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Sarah Boesveld writes for the Globe and Mail:
Last updated on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 3:45AM EST
Toronto police seized a venomous viper from a home in the city's east end yesterday.
Officers responded to a disturbance call around noon only to be faced with a four-foot-long East African Gaboon Viper, said 55 Division Sergeant Mike Wilson. "I think when they went in ...[and said] 'Oh, what's this? I don't think you're allowed to have venomous snakes in the city.'" Officials from the Toronto Zoo retrieved the slithery suspect and are holding onto it in the meantime. While residents were surprised to hear about an illegal serpent, Sgt. Wilson was less so. "We've seized alligators in the west end before."
I find it appaling the the Police seize somebody’s pet because “I don't think you're allowed to have venomous snakes in the city”. Isn’t this something you should know?!? Didn’t the officials from Toronto Zoo know it either and if they did, couldn’t they have shared their knowledge with the Sergeant?
Lucifer’s Hammer’d a comment on the news page:
One of the mayoral candidates?
Sources / More info: g&m-ven-snake
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