Zoo in a Maastricht hotel room

When a guest at a hotel in the Dutch city of Maastricht told Reception she’d found a two and a half metre snake in her toilet bowl, the subsequent investigation revealed a large menagerie of exotic animals in the room one floor below hers. The snake had, apparently, made its way upstairs through the sewage pipes.

Hotel personnel who searched the lower room discovered approximately 30 exotic animals, including poisonous frogs, a baby crocodile and bird spiders. The animals belonged to a group of four Italians, who were also in possession of drugs and a firearm. The three men and one woman were all later arrested.

Source: Radio Netherlands, 17 September 2008

See a short video clip in Dutch here. (Source: South Limburg Police)