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<p>HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (AP) &#8212; In a real life version of the children&#8217;s reader &#8220;Snakes Alive!&#8221;, state wildlife officers are searching for 14 pythons in an east Georgia subdivision after a woman reported that someone let the pet snakes loose.</p><p>Jacqueline Heim told authorities the snakes were in secure cages. She suspects someone set them free deliberately this week.</p><p>Heim tells WRDW-TV (http://bit.ly/2d1S4NI ) the ball pythons are not harmful. Ball pythons, sometimes known as royal pythons, are so named because their key defense against predators is to roll up in a ball.</p><p>Priscilla Crisler of Augusta Animal Services says the snakes &#8220;typically are very docile.&#8221;</p><p>But neighbors like Shekelia Wilcher are on edge. Wilcher tells WJBF-TV (http://bit.ly/2cpnQQI ) that young children in the neighborhood wait for their school bus and &#8220;one might just crawl up on them.&#8221;</p><p>The neighborhood is in Hephzibah (HEHP&#8217;-sih-bah), about 15 miles south of Augusta.</p><style>
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Snakes Alive! Missing pythons on the loose in neighborhood