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Chubby Snake Gets Stuck In Plug Socket After Devouring Rodent

This footage shows Chinese cops arriving at a home and capturing a chubby snake that was trapped in an open plug socket in the wall after eating a mouse.

The snake rescue was filmed at a home in the city of Xuancheng in the Chinese province of Anhui earlier this month.

According to the news site Sina, the snake became trapped in the plug socket after devouring a mouse and trying to escape through the hole in the wall.

Snake that ate mouse got stuck in electrical conduit in Xuancheng, China. (Xuancheng Public Security Online/AsiaWire)

However, its bulky frame could not pass through the gap and the snake remained trapped until the cops came.

In the footage, the police are seen arriving at the property before coming across the snake, seen with its tail end hanging out of the hole and an apparently swollen midriff after eating the rodent.

An officer grabs the snake by its tail and slowly pulls it out of the hole as a colleague waits with an opened plastic bag.

Snake that ate mouse got stuck in electrical conduit in Xuancheng, China. (Xuancheng Public Security Online/AsiaWire)

The cop then places the snake inside the bag and his colleague closes the top.

Officers are then seen leaving the property as an elderly man thanks them for removing the snake.

According to Sina, the police took the reptile to a natural area and released it into the wild.

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