This school teacher had a house full of 400 pythons, living and dead
India Today Online
January 30, 2014 | UPDATED 17:16 IST
Santa
Ana police department animal services supervisor Sondra Berg displays a
python for the media after it was removed from a house in Santa Ana,
California January 29, 2014.
The police arrived at his house after neighbours complained about the stench emanating from William Buchman's five-bedroom house. The stink was so bad that as the animal services department started stacking the snakes in boxes outside his house, passers-by and reporters were gagging on the smell.
The most curious part of the story though is the fact that of the 400 snakes, 220 were already dead and ranged from just dead to dead for months. Most of the dead snakes had flies and maggots running amok on them.
Hundreds
of snakes and rodents were found on Wednesday in the home of a Southern
California elementary school teacher after neighbors complained of a
stench from the house, police said.
According to The Guardian, there was an infestation of rats and mice all over the house. There were so many rats and mice in plastic storage tubs that they were actually cannibalising each other.
The House of Horrors, as Sondra Berg, the supervisor for the Santa Ana police department's animal services division described it, had each snake catalogued by name and type. But the snakes were packed so tightly in the bins that there were no lids on the bins since there was no way for the snakes to slither out.
Authorities said, Buchman claimed he was a snake-breeder.
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