PHOTO:SHOCKING: Man Caught With 850 Snakes

• An animal control officer on disability kept 850 snakes, including two 6-foot Burmese pythons, while running an illegal snake business out of his suburban New York home, according to authorities who made the discovery yesterday.

• Richard Parrinello, of Brookhaven, New York, kept the snakes in his detached garage, all neatly stacked in containers and at the right temperature, Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA said.
• Jack Krieger, communications director for the Town of Brookhaven on Long Island said that Burmese pythons are illegal in New York, and Parrinello's were taken from the house to a reptile sanctuary in Massachusetts while the rest of the snakes are still in his garage.
• Gross said all the snakes appeared to be in good health and there was no animal abuse or neglect.
• "It was a well-maintained facility, it was very clean and organised, it was a business," Krieger said.