A practical joker scared Welsh pub-goers by placing a 60cm snake in the coin-return slot of a jukebox, it was reported on Friday.
Fourteen-year-old publican’s daughter Stacey Caldwell got the fright of her life when she found a boa constrictor coiled up in the coin-return slot in the pub in Cym, South Wales.
”She screamed out, and the customers wouldn’t go anywhere near it all night. Someone must have put it there as a joke, but this a cruel and stupid joke,” her mother said on Friday.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was called to collect the brown-and-grey common boa.
It took the reptile, which can grow to a length of 4m in the wild, to the vet thinking it may be in hibernation. But the snake had already died.
”It seems that this snake was placed there as some sort of joke, but this a completely unacceptable and cruel act”, said Keith Hogben of the RSPCA. — Sapa-DPA