Slip sliding away Gripping 'tail' of a covert constrictor by Dan Breeden
Barrymore rhe boa kn ows no bounds. Perhops the snake couldn ·1 h11J1dJe rhe pressure or ftn3ls, or maybe he just needed a change of scenery. Ar any n11c on Dec. 8. Barrymore. NJC's four-foot-siJ Haitian constrict0r took a squirm of absence. According to biology lab assistant Debra Prnther, who doubles as the serpent's maidservant. rhc bordcrtess boa was able to push the lid off his o.quanum -typc home IIJld slither out. Prather wu able 10 tnick the animal
a shon distance b) followmg snake droppings: howC\cr. rhe tracks led to the big screen TV. "'here be apparcnrly put the squcne on any more rr.lil. A two- boar search and rescue bum followed the great escape bur to no :ivatl. Barrymore had beat the pro\crb· ial pathway to a higher le,•cl of consciousness. lntcrrnirtent searches over the nert rwo w·eeks by Prather and srudcnt slcuthes still turned up nary a scale. Then two weeks later. on Dec. 22 as college maintenance man, Doug Blake
worked in the lab, Banymorc·s game of writhe and see~ came 10 Jo end. Prather was hailed. and Barrvmore the bJrrloot boa. was returned to his old coiling grounds. "I was beginning to think that someone had raken him." Prather hissed. "Boas make grcJt pets and arc rc:111) good mousers:· "BUT)morc dines on one normal house mouse e,·ery rw o weeks." Prather said. "l began 10 get worried about his nor ca110g." Howe\'er. when the shppcl)' reptile
\\JS rerurncd 10 his gl.bs pll. it Wib the watcr dish he sank his fangs into and nor rhe w1h. w hire mouse. During Christmas ,-.cation, Barr'\'· more m.inaged yet another esc:ip~. this one only O\crnight. Prnther and Bl3kc cJught the slippery serpcnr 3gtun t1s he lay coiled m n prep room cuobo3rd. Barr:·more. \\Ith forked tongue in check. refused 10 comment on his whereabouts and 3cthiucs during his absences. but his plnt'id Clpression and equh·ocal eye said he wa~ ar last hlppy to be home.
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FridnJ', Feb. 3, 1984
BUSTIN' LOOSE -Banymorc, the oo~ge'• IUuah·c boa confl.rictoT, • P· pean coolenl Ill the band$
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Photography w11ve1or Wair Knowles.
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J 'Rock)" Horror' at Wilma tonight
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The cull mo"ie, "The Rocky Horror Piao.re Show.'' will be shown cspcctally for IC srudcnts tonight at t.be Wilma Theater in downtown Coeur d'Alene. Tickets for the 11 :JO p.m. sh0wutg can be purchased m the Subway Game Room for SI or for S4 111 the door. A tn1d1tiooal audience panicip:uion movie. "Rocky Horror•· usually finds its audience equipped w.ilh rice. nc.,.spapcrs. toasr. squin guns and lighters. The ftlm stars Tim Curry as a tr.1ns.,cstitc t1nd 3lso includes Susan Sarandon and Bany Bost'4ic:k.