More British Bities

Ananova (from a report in The Mirror) reports the capture of a non-native species of wildlife in a block of flats in Manchester. This comes as a relief to the tenants who had taken to weighting their toilet lids down with bricks to prevent Keith, the rogue 10ft boa constrictor, popping out of their loos.
Keith is thought to have been living in sewage pipes, feasting on rats, after being abandoned by an evicted tenant about three months ago – but he only turned up in the flats' toilets last week. This wasn’t particularly surprising to those in the know about things herpetological – apparently boa constrictors can swim well and they can hold their breath for more than 20 minutes - which you’d really want to be able to do if you were living in sewage pipes!
Of course, now that I have seen the picture of the snake, I'm even more concerned about finding some bricks in case the same thing happens at our place - but I'm not sure a couple of bricks would hold something of this size! (Click on the image make it larger.)