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A python stuck in a pipe and dancing on ice, some stories you may have missed this week.

In this week’s Strongsville Police Blotter, police were dispatched to a Royalton Road business regarding a pipe bomb threat.

Forest officials in India rescued a 13-foot Burmese python from an industrial waste pipe, Tuesday, March 2. The python's natural habitat is near the spot where it was found, but it strayed into an ...

Snake catchers removed a massive python that ate a pet cat before getting stuck in a drain. Volunteers were called to a house north of Bangkok, Thailand, where the 13ft-long serpent was discovered ...

A family in Central Florida found an amazingly big snake on their land over the weekend, after getting brave enough to point a flashlight into a drainage pipe. Inside the culvert sat a beefy ...

A reticulated python found itself in a tight spot, after getting stuck in a narrow pipe at a drain near Clarke Quay MRT on Tuesday (Feb 18).

Accused simply didn’t believe killer python could escape through ventilation pipe: defence The trial of a man whose African rock python killed two young N.B. boys came down to one question: Did ...

A man who caught a 14-foot python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the ...