Monty python & the holy grate: four-foot snake found in Markham sewer (PHOTO)

Now here’s something you don’t see every day.

A four-foot-long python was spotted in a sewer grate in Markham.

York Regional Police said officers were called on Sunday to carefully remove the snake and keep it safe until animal services arrived to care for it.

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Police are calling it “the stuff nightmares are made of.”

THE STUFF NIGHTMARES ARE MADE OF – @YRP has seen its share of slippery suspects, but we weren’t about to let this serpent snake away on Sunday.

Officers carefully removed the four-foot python from a sewer and kept it until it could be re-homed by @cityofmarkham animal services. pic.twitter.com/1y1g7b49j2

— York Regional Police (@YRP) August 2, 2022

The accompanying photo shows a brown and yellow snake with its body wrapped around a sewer gate, next to what looks like an old carton of President’s Choice pineapple juice.

Twitter users replying to the police’s tweet identify the snake as a ball python. According to reptile experts, ball pythons are low-maintenance, docile, and social — and they make great pets!

Police are unable to confirm how this particular snake ended up in the sewer.