Thank you for that compliment burger, it is good to see, that you do indeed realise I am, in fact, awesome. Have a cookie.
If the people are truly concerned, then I am sure they will make an effort to find out the facts, rather than jump to conclusions and condemn a man and his business based on a TV shot on the news.
Let us make a few quantum leaps here and just imagine for a moment...
Perhaps the area behind the TV cabinet was dark, and given the locality and recent catches in the area, a Water Python was the most likely suspect to be behind it. However, an intelligent snakecatcher, rather than leap in and make assumptions about an unknown situation, might get a torch to ensure a clear visual and confirm first. Goodness me, this could fit the very scenario above.
And lets look at the cage another way. Lets just imagine that this snake might be highly agitated about being confined to a home, might have even been hissing at the home owner (oh wait, she did say on the news that it was, guess that puts the kibosh on my hypothetical hissing). Lets say that with the neighbours, family, people from up the street and news crew crammed into every window and door watching, the safest place for this snake and for all the onlookers was the quickest and easiest place of containment capable of removing it from a volatile situation. A low cage with a large opening. (Well hey, I guess someone could have just hit it over the head with a shovel instead. Lesser of two evils perhaps?)
And I am inclined to think, if he was hamming it up for the camera's, he would have had the snake out on the ground and done the usual hero thing, that is, held it up in front of him for the pose shot for the camera crew and I didn't see that happening. The shot of him with the cage at the end didn't appear to have the mark of someone showing off, there was no 'showmanship' there, he even had his back to the camera.
Look, I am not the snakecatcher, I am not the news crew, this didn't happen in my house or even in my neighbourhood, but I do know that not everything you see on the news and read in the paper is as it seems and maybe a little 'think before you condemn' might be a nicer way to go about things.
Peace all.
BW