Watch: Big snake found in shopping cart at Target store in Iowa

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Customers and employees at an Iowa Target store were in for a surprise when a shopping card brought in from the outdoor corral turned out to already be occupied by a Colombian red-tailed boa constrictor.

The Sioux City Police Department confirmed animal control officers responded to the Sunnybrook Drive Target store in Sioux City on a report of a large snake in a shopping cart.

The officers learned the snake had been discovered after the cart was brought inside from an outdoor corral.

Animal control officers are investigating whether the snake was intentionally abandoned in the cart.