Snake Found Hiding Inside AC Unit By Technician During Maintenance Work

A technician was taken aback after he found a ball python hiding inside the outdoor unit of an AC at a home in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Tuesday.

Conner Smith arrived at the home to do some maintenance work. However, when he opened up the unit, he was left startled on seeing a ball python hiding inside it.

Steve Ramos, the owner of the home, said he heard the technician say “whoa.” Moments later, Smith entered informed him about his finding. Ramos said off late he had been facing a lot of problem with rats on the roof as well as hearing a lot of noises and all of that made a lot more sense now.

“I’ve been having problems with rats on the roof. At night, I would hear a thud on the roof, and I think it may have been that python dropping out of the tree and gorging himself on the rats. My dogs have been going nuts barking at that tree!” he said.

Smith said finding a reptile hiding in an AC unit is not uncommon.

“It’s something we see quite often. Reptiles like to get in there because it’s warm. It’s just something we face, just part of the job,” he said.

Smith added that a technician who works with him knows a bit about snake told him the reptile found inside the AC unit was a baby ball python, possibly a year old. The co-worker removed the reptile from the unit and took it to an animal refuge group. “So he’s in a nice, safe home,” said Smith.

Meanwhile, joking about the entire incident, Ramos said, “If they hadn’t found it, I wonder how long that thing would have lived around here until my dog went missing... or I went missing.”

He, however, wondered where the reptile came from.

“I’m not afraid of snakes but how weird is it that a python was out under the deck," he said.