POLICE REFUTE RUMOURS OF SNAKE CINEMA SCARE
LATEST: Phoenix, Arizona police have denied reports live rattlesnakes were released in a cinema during a screening of SNAKES ON A PLANE, insisting the claims are a hoax.
Local news reports on Tuesday (22AUG06) said cinema-goers were terrified when two live venomous rattlesnakes were released at a showing of the SAMUEL L JACKSON film last Friday (18AUG06).
Phoenix police sergeant JOEL TRANTER admits there is a shred of truth to the story - a 10-inch (25-centimetre) rattlesnake was found on Friday in a hallway at the movie theatre, but is thought to have slithered there on its own.
A security guard swept the snake up outside and trapped it in a plastic container until a member of the Arizona Herpetological Association could haul it away.
Snake handlers had also been called to the theatre earlier in the day to retrieve another rattlesnake from outside.
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