Body camera video: Boulder officers remove a ‘very large’ snake from a home

Police officers in Boulder recently helped remove a “very large” snake from inside a resident’s home – and the process was captured on body camera video.

The video, which the Boulder Police Department shared on social media Thursday, shows a snake several feet in length slithering in front of what appears to be a fireplace in a living area of a home.

Officers appear to move through multiple rooms of the house in pursuit of the snake before eventually ushering it into an orange bucket. They cover the bucket with a broken-down cardboard box before walking it out the front door.

“It may not have been a usual type of police call, but we’re glad we could help our community—human and scaley,” the police department wrote in a social media post .

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History told Denver7 the snake involved is a bullsnake, which is one of the most common snake species in Colorado – "and a nice big one at that." Bullsnakes generally grow up to six feet in length, according to the museum .

One officer who could be heard on the body camera video had some fun with the call.

“Code 5 with one snake,” she quips near the end of the video, in an in-jest reference to the police radio call for a stakeout operation.

Watch the body camera video shared by police in the video player below: