A man tried to bring a python onto a plane in Miami by hiding it inside a computer hard drive, according to a news report. He and the snake did not make the Barbados-bound flight, authorities said.

A police officer used a Taser to subdue a python that had wrapped itself around a man’s arm and would not let go. Steve Crilly, 47, was feeding a rat to the eight-foot-long albino Burmese python ...