“I was young and terrified,” TikTok-famous snake handler Chris Gifford, 22, said in an interview with WRAL, explaining why he didn’t immediately act. “I still am young and terrified about the whole situation.”
, explaining why he didn’t immediately act. “I still am young and terrified about the whole situation.”—bought two African zebra cobras in November 2020 to add to his snake collection. He’d kept them in separate enclosures in a standard quarantine procedure to stop new additions potentially spreading diseases to other snakes. But when he checked on them the day after their arrival in his house, one was gone—a realization Gifford describes as “this giant, ‘Oh crap’ moment.
He realized that the container hadn’t been latched properly and immediately set about searching his parents’ basement for the missing reptile. Gifford hoped safety measures he’d put in place would ensure the snake must still be down there—until he found a pen-size hole in the wall leading into the drywall and crawl space under the house. Believing the zebra cobra must be trapped, Gifford convinced his parents—and himself—that there was no need to notify anyone about the breakout.
After she left his home, he told the local news outlet that he had a pang of conscience and called the officer to come clean. Gifford was ultimately ordered to give his $35,000 snake collection to the county and made to pay over $13,000 in restitution in part for the police and EMS search for the snake. Gifford also promised to not own any snakes for at least a year.
Gifford now gets the seriousness of his inaction. “It was on a lady’s porch,” he said, speaking of where the snake was finally caught with a glue-trap. “Imagine if a little kid or something of that nature had happened?” He also explained his motivations for speaking out now: “Mostly this is just an apology because there are no excuses for what happened.”
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