"I love snakes, but it was huge, I just didn't want it to attack," Burger King assistant manager Lexie Johnson said. "I had a customer complain, and I'm just like, 'Oh, I just think it's maybe a garden snake.' I come out here. I see it's a huge anaconda-looking snake, so I'm like, 'Ahh!' and I run back in and I call the police station. They direct me towards animal control."
"There was a rather large snake -- over six-feet long. It was determined to be a boa constrictor," East Moline police officer Chad Brodersen said.
"A whopper of a snake," Johnson said.
Employees tried to keep the snake occupied while waiting for the cops.
"I had a couple of my employees taming it with a broomstick to keep it calm to keep it here so it doesn't run away," Johnson said. "A lot of people wanted to stop and take pictures and just look at it. We had a little car traffic jam just because everyone would stop and look at the snake."
"I can't think of ever getting a call to the boa constrictor in the burger king parking lot," Brodersen said.
Police were able to capture the snake, but the mystery of where it came from is still unanswered.
"We had our animal control officer respond, who got the snake and caged it, and now we're at the point where we are trying to relocate the snake," Brodersen said.
Just a snake out for a stroll looking for a bite to eat.
"It smelled the whopper and all it did was want a sandwich," Johnson said.
(KSDK - Sept 4, 2014)
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