Downtown Los Angeles residents found a 20-foot python slithering around one of the dumpsters in their apartment complex this week.

The residents called snake wrangler Joseph Hart after they were unable to reach animal control.

"The snake was not really wanting to get off the dumpster," he said. "She was frightened, as you could imagine. There were a lot of people there. She's just been in this weird situation. She was really stressed out."

Hart, known as the " Reptile Hunter ," said it was challenging to remove the snake from the dumpster due to the animal's sheer strength and weight.

"I needed to move the dumpster and then get her off and put her on my body," Hart said. "That's just good old-fashioned animal wrangling is how I got her out of the dumpster."

Hart, who developed a pas

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