Man thrown out of Asda after taking pet snake on shopping trip

A man was kicked out of his local Asda - for taking his pet snake with him on a shopping trip. Staff and customers were stunned when Chaz Watson strolled into the Dundee store with boa constrictor Gismo draped around his neck.

Some petrified shoppers looked on in horror as the 45-year-old wandered the aisles before being told to leave by management. Chaz claimed he made the trip to test the store's no dog policy "to the limit". He said the five-year-old, 6ft-long reptile posed no danger to other shoppers and that he did not know what all the fuss was about.


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He added: "It was a sunny day and snakes like the heat, so I thought I'd bring him out with me. I went to do my shopping and was leaving Asda anyway when security came up to me. It will not go near anybody if it is around my neck. It is not a problem."

But customer Cory Campbell, who was in the store on Sunday afternoon when Gismo paid a visit, said: "I am absolutely terrified of snakes - and there was this snake's head just about two feet away from me." A spokeswoman for Asda said: "We'd kindly ask Mr Campbell to leave Gismo the snake at home in future - after all, we're a supermarket, not a safari."