Boa Constrictor Slithers from Chair

RICHMOND, VA (WTVR) - Be careful what you buy secondhand, because you never know what is lurking inside.

A Richmond, Virginia man learned that lesson early Wednesday morning when a snake apparently slithered out of a chair he received nearly a week earlier.

Barrett Edwards tells CBS 6 he was in bed watching TV inside his Dill Avenue home Wednesday morning when he got up to use the bathroom.

Upon exiting the bathroom he saw a boa constrictor coiled up atop a bathroom vent. "I turned around and there was a snake right there," Edwards says.

Edwards says watched the snake for a couple of minutes to figure out what he was going to do. He then called for his mother, ran downstairs and called 911.

Richmond Police officers arrived at the home and put the snake in a pillow case.

Police believe the snake had been hiding in the coils of a chair a friend of Edwards recently gave him.

Police returned the snake, named Buddy, to its owner who says he plans on returning it to a pet store.

In Virginia it is a Class 2 misdemeanor to allow a reptile that is not native to the Commonwealth to escape.

Richmond Police say they don't plan to file any charges in this case.

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