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Article: BIG SNAKE PUTS BIG SCARE IN BEACH GARDENER.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 2, 1999
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Byline: STACY PARKER, CORRESPONDENT
VIRGINIA BEACH -- For gardener Lawrence Dozier, there was nothing out of the ordinary about clearing a path with a leaf blower.
There was, however, something distinctly frightening about discovering a large, deadly snake wrapped around his client's sprinkler pole.
``My heart jumped in my mouth,'' Dozier said of the moment he came face to face with the thick reptile in the Princess Anne Hills neighborhood of Virginia Beach.
The approximately 6-foot, brown and gray snake is either a boa constrictor or a python, according to Virginia Beach Animal Control officials. Boa constrictors and pythons kill ...