A 63-year-old man, Neville Linton, went to an Aldi supermarket in Stourbridge, England, to buy groceries last month. Little did he know that he’d end up bringing a snake home along with his purchases.
He bought a bag of broccoli and put it in the fridge. Three days later, when he took it out to prepare a meal, he got the shock of his life as he unwrapped the broccoli and found an unexpected guest – a snake.
Neville, who works in industrial cleaning and isn’t good with snakes, said, “It was pretty frightening. I’m not good with snakes. It’s lucky I didn’t just leave the broccoli out in the kitchen, or it would have been loose in the house. That would have been a huge risk for us because we have two vulnerable people living here.”
Once he realized the creature was too big to be a caterpillar, he called his sister Ann-Marie Tenkanemin for help. She identified it as a snake. The two then put the snake in a tub and went back to the Aldi store on Dudley Road where Neville had made the purchase. Neville recounted, “I thought she was joking at first, but I backed off when I saw it start moving. The guy in the shop was pretty frightened too.”