MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A 5-foot-long boa constrictor caught slithering around a middle school had some help getting to class. His owner, a student at Wooddale Middle School, smuggled the reptile in his backpack on Thursday. The student, who was not identified by school officials, was disciplined.

Boa constrictors, which squeeze their prey to kill, are not poisonous and the snake was not considered dangerous to students.

School officials called police after finding the snake, which was taken to Memphis Animal Services to be reclaimed by the student's parents.


Who would let their kid own a snake...

Glad that wasnt at my school...i would stand on a table and not get down till it was caugth! There is a snake in the 9th grade scince room and when they were feeding it a rat got away and i didnt know that until they fopund it again...good thing or i woulda freeked! lol

I'm not a big fan of snakes so if I knew there was a snake in the school I definitely would have been freaked out.

my daddy and brother picked me out an albino boa consticter when i started the 7th grade and i still have her she is orange and white

Oh yuck

I would freak if I saw that in the hallways

they arent that bad my snake baby is afraid of most things that arent in our house normally

:o I don't like snakes.

We actually had two boa constrictors at my junior high school. They were kept in cages in the hallway near the science department. More than once those guys got out of their cages and made a "run" for it, usually into one of the math rooms or in the girls lavatory. Oh those were fun times when the snakes got loose. :lmao