18 ft python attempts to enter house through open window

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Horrifying pictures show the moment a huge 18ft-long snake slithers its way into the bedroom of a home through an open window.

The albino Burmese python made its way along the roof and into a property in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire on Tuesday morning.

Neighbour Jenny Warrick, 62, said she first spotted the snake - native to Southeast Asia - at around 5.30 as she and her husband got up.

“I saw something on the roof and thought it must be a plastic tube, but then its head started moving,” she said.

She said she told her husband, who replied: "Don't be silly".

But then “we realised that it was definitely a snake and it was moving all over the roof, trying to find a way to get down,” Ms Warrick added.

“It’s not what you want to see first thing in the morning...my husband hates snakes, and he couldn’t get to work fast enough.”

The occupants of the house used a broom to scare the reptile back out of the window, causing it to fall onto a car bonnet below as stunned neighbours watched on.

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