Man made citizen’s arrest of large python that ate his prized rooster

A man in Queensland, Australia, performed a citizen’s arrest after wrestling a 4m-long python intruder which broke into his backyard and ate his prized rooster. Halifax man Ellis Huddy came face-to-face with the monster snake early on Thursday morning and discovered the slithery criminal had made his prized chicken breakfast.

“I have had Big Red for about two years and he was my favourite rooster so it’s a real bugger,” he said. “He wakes me up at five o’clock every morning to tell me all the hens are okay. But that morning, Big Red didn’t crow.” Mr Huddy said he grabbed a torch and went to investigate his self-made backyard chicken coup and found “disaster”.



“I saw the snake with a belly full and the other chickens were running around like they had their heads cut off,” he said. “The snake was very strong and I had to wrestle with it a bit before I dragged it out by the tail and put it in the potato sack.” Mr Huddy then took the python to the Halifax police station.

“When the sergeant saw the snake, he just said ‘wow’,” he said. Halifax station officer-in-charge Sergeant John Tantalo said the reptile was measured and photographed for evidence. “Mr Huddy … had been having some of his animals disappear and he has previously brought in another offender to us that was relocated,” Sgt Tantalo said. “(The latest snake) was released without charge a long way from the ­offence location.”