‘Unwanted Hitchhiker’ found in the shipment of banana from the grocery store ‘a first’

A Slhery surprise discovered in a banana shipment sent a scare through a south New Hampshire grocery.

A conservation officer of the State Department of Fisheries and Hunting of New Hampshire responded on Saturday to a report of an “unwanted autoestopist” in the market basket in Manchester, according to WMUR and a statement published on Facebook.

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Slithinging Stowaway was determined to be a snake adorned with cat’s eyes, a native of slightly poisonous reptiles To Ecuadorwhich is one of the largest bananas exporters to the United States

The conservation officer Griffin McKeown told WMUR that when he responded to the incident, he spoke with an employee who “seemed quite familiar with snakes.”

A snake was found in a banana shipment in a Manchester grocery store, NH. (New Hampshire Fish and Game | isthock)

The call was “the first” for McKeown, continued. “We have received some calls on the surrender of balls from ball pythons and things like that, but never, never (a) poisonous snake.”

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McKeown also pointed out that the possession of any poisonous snake, apart from the pork nose snake, is illegal in New Hampshire.

After it was determined that the snake was not damaged, it was hosted again Based in northern Massachusetts Rainforest Reptile Shows Inc. for adequate attention.

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Market Basket and the Fish and Game Department of New Hampshire did not immediately respond to the request for Fox News Digital comments.