Man busted with 850 snakes at his home

... are illegal in New York state, officials said. "There is a reason why Burmese pythons are illegal," said Suffolk County SPCA Chief Roy Gross, citing the deaths of two young boys in New Brunswick, Canada, who were killed by an African rock python ...

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