Call me a chicken, but I never considered a career in law enforcement. Those men and women are true heroes. When their radios blare out a call, they never know what they’re getting into. Maybe it’s an alligator in the backseat of a car pulled over for making an illegal U-turn.Or maybe it’s pulling a giant python off a woman.
That’s what happened to a police officer in Eugene, Oregon. A pet store owner was showing the 12-foot Burmese python to a customer when the snake attacked, biting her hand and knocking her to the floor with its muscular body. Another person in the store called the police and then kept the huge reptile from coiling around her head and neck until help arrived. The officer intended to kill the python, but the store owner convinced him to spare its life. He pried the jaws loose and uncoiled it from her body and with the help of other emergency workers who arrived on the scene wrestled it back into its cage.I’m guessing that officer never anticipated snake wrestling as part of his job description.