NEWBERRY COUNTY, SC (WOLO) — What would you do if you came across a 12-foot yellow python? Most people would run the other way!

But that wasn’t the case for a few men in Newberry County who decided to help capture a massive snake that’s been causing quite a stir.

First spotted several weeks ago near the Mid-Carolinas campus, an albino reticulated python is an anything but a common sight here in South Carolina.

“It’s native to Southeast Asia, definitely not native to here. So it could not survive our winters. They need our hot humid climate, like our summers are perfect for those types of snakes but they would not be able to survive our winters,” says Sean Foley, Curator of Herpetology at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden.

Both Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster and Sean believe the snake was mos

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