Trailer-dwelling Residents of the Burntwood Mobile Home Park in southern Oklahoma City tell KFOR the park’s management threatened to evict tenants for speaking about the now 13-foot long cat-eating python that has made its home under an abandoned unit for more than five months.
A ten-year Burntwood trailer homer, who asked to remain anonymous in fear of eviction from management, says the lords of the single-wide kingdom knew about the snake since at least June but only last week was a removal expert hired for the job. “The only reason they finally did something was because a resident snapped a picture of it. Them sending out a warning to us to not talk to media, it’s intimidation all the way.” KFOR were able to obtain a text message from Burntwood management that read “We have had a few media outlets attempt to interview our residents regarding this issue. Must be a slow news week! If you are contacted by the media, you are encouraged to ask them to leave the community immediately and give them no comments.”
That’s when the depth of the cover-up dawned on the resident. “The trailer that the snake is at is just a couple blocks near the pool and they closed that this summer, but we had no clue why. They knew that this snake was out and that having residents in the pool might not be the safest choice.”