Friday 5 October 2012

Holding Them Off

Italian Tax police on Friday found snakes guarding the accounts of a northern Italian company they had come to inspect. (ANSA)

Boa constrictors and a python were among the reptiles watching over a "parallel" set of books in the storehouse of a metal-working company near the city of Belluno.



"There were splendid examples of empire boa constrictors, some of them about three metres long, a royal python and another 10 reptiles" in glass cases placed on top of the allegedly falsified accounts, police said.  Forest Rangers and a snake expert were called out from Belluno to remove the snakes so that the tax police could get at the books and carry out their inspection.

4 comments:

Weekend Yachtsman said...

No comment indeed.

But didn't the glass cases somewhat defeat the assumed purpose?

Curiouser and curiouser...

Nick Drew said...

Tony Blair used to deploy Peter Mandelson in much the same way

a musician said...

Was anyone able to speak to them in Parseltongue?

Nomad said...

Was one of them an adder, perchance?

Ok, I'll get me coat...