Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MASON CITY, Iowa, May 26 (UPI) -- An Iowa court fined a man $65 for allowing his pet snake, a bull python, to wander the halls of the Holiday Inn. Michael Salo, 25, was fined Tuesday in a Mason City magistrate court under the city's animal control ordinance for letting the 5-year-old snake slither around the hallways of the hotel without supervision while Salo was staying at the hotel May 1, The (Mason City) Globe Gazette reported Wednesday. Advertisement Hotel manager Brandy Smith Branstad said employees discovered the snake at about 7 a.m. May 1 and the reptile is not believed to have come into contact with other patrons. "The man was a guest at the hotel. The snake was not," Branstad said Tuesday. She said Salo apologized after the incident. "We like to think of ourselves as pet friendly," she said, "but when we say that, we really mean cats and dogs."
