When a woman took her six-foot snake into a newsagent, it slithered over the counter and “tried to grab mints,” leaving the shopkeeper screaming in panic.
Alwyn Maynard stopped at a newsstand in Tuebrook, Liverpool, to get a bottle of water after having a “outrageous” encounter with the enormous lizard.
The 52-year-old was shocked to enter and see a woman with a sizable snake wrapped around her neck.
He subsequently asked permission to briefly video the strange monster.
In the video taken last Tuesday, the snake, which Alwyn believes to be a boa constrictor or python, extends toward the counter without the owner’s knowledge and slithers over the top by the time Alywn tells her.
The snake coils itself between a box of mints “as if it’s stealing them for its sweet tooth” and climbs atop the till while the scared shop assistant screams inconsolably and runs to the end of the store.
The strangely calm woman attempts to get her snake to retreat by softly saying “hello, missy” and “come on difficulty, behave yourself” while one scared customer flees the store.
As mint packs tumble to the ground, she apologizes on behalf of her mischievous creature but finds it difficult to get it back over the counter.
The scared shop assistant is repeatedly told to “leave now,” but the snake is still trying to get away from its owner and cause mayhem while Alwyn giggles in the background.
The railroad station employee jokingly said he refrained from intervening because he “didn’t want to get strangled by it,” but he is adamant that he had no sympathy for the animal’s owner.
Since he posted his video to Facebook the next day, it has been viewed more than one million times, with viewers describing it as “hysterical.”
She just didn’t seem to understand what the snake was doing behind her, according to Alwyn, a resident of Liverpool’s Hatton Garden. It had to like sweet things.
I simply felt terrible for the shopkeeper. She was so afraid that she must have had a nasty encounter with a snake as a little child.
The devil was let loose.
“I doubt I’ve ever heard screaming like those,” you say. She screamed louder and an octave higher each time.
She had to feel confined.
They presumably had to deal with robbery attempts, but all of it seems insignificant in comparison to this.
It differs somewhat from a snake attempting to break into your store.
Why would you take a six-foot snake to the neighbourhood store? Simply leave it at home.
She probably won’t bring it into a store again. I wasn’t empathetic at all.
She was expressing regret for dropping the mints, but not the snake. She simply mishandled it. It had an own personality.
I refrained from getting involved since I didn’t want to get bitten by a snake.
I didn’t want to become their next meal because it is how they murder their prey. In the end, I went without the water.
After about three minutes, the woman was able to wrestle her lizard back over the counter, according to Alwyn, who acknowledges that it was a “very nice-looking critter.”
After the harrowing incident in the middle of the afternoon, the 51-year-old jokingly said that the store is now probably going to have a “no pets permitted” sign on the window.
Users puzzled by the chaos have shared more than 15,000 times of his Facebook post from July 6 since then.
Only at Tuebrook, it was written, did someone bring a boa constrictor to the offy. It all came to £3.87.
The manner in which she apologizes for dropping a couple packs of gum on the floor. It’s not like the shop owner is concerned about that, hehe.
One person said, “Omg! The shop assistant yells, and you’re just standing there giggling.
Wonder how long it took the shopkeeper to post a “NO PETS ALLOWED” sign, a different person said.
That’s hysterical, a third person merely added.