From the ABC News
Police were no match for a 5.7-metre python that made itself at home in a north Queensland charity shop yesterday. Officers were initially called after staff at the St Vincent de Paul store in Ingham thought there had been a break-in. Police were unable to wrangle the 17-kilogram reptile and were forced to call in local snake handler Virginia McGrath. Ms McGrath said the python was placid but it had created quite a mess. "There was crockery scattered all over the place, smashed, and a big doo-doo on the floor," she said. "I said, 'well, where is he', and there he was, stretched all along the side wall."
The snake was relocated to wetlands nearby.
