An elderly gentleman is said to have found a snake in a packet of broccoli bought from Aldi in the small town of Dudley, near Birmingham, England. “It was a horrible experience,” Neville Linton told WalesOnline. As evidence, the news portal printed a photo that Linton’s son Donovan allegedly took.
Neville Linton, 63, put cling film-wrapped broccoli in his fridge after shopping at Aldi. After three days, he took out the broccoli to finish it, they say. And experienced a great fright.
The coiled snake lay between the green stems of the broccoli. Linton: “I realized the thing was bigger than a caterpillar.” Because he says he suffers from a snake phobia, he enlisted his sister to help. Together they put the animal, which was later identified as a non-venomous trap snake, in a tub and drove back to the Aldi branch.
The local Aldi employees could hardly believe their eyes and gave him the money back. But that’s not enough for Linton. He demands appropriate compensation. If you want to know more about another stowaway in the fruit, read on here.
“Never had such a complaint”
An Aldi UK spokesperson said in a statement: “Our supplier has never had a complaint of this nature. We are investigating this isolated incident and have apologized to Mr Linton for not meeting our usual high standards”.
Linton and his family brought the snake to Dudley Zoo. There it was identified as a trap snake, native to the Iberian Islands and southern France.
Bustard snakes are not venomous, but are considered aggressive and willing to bite. They hunt small mammals and can exude a foul odor through a gland. The stair hose can be up to 1.60 meters long.
The cold-blooded animals hibernate during the cold months and only come back to life when the temperature rises. That’s why the Aldi snake could so easily survive time in the fridge.
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