Some Arlington neighbors said they're living in fear of deadly snakes, after a man filled his house with hundreds of the exotic animals.

"The night before, my husband looked out of the upstairs window and thought he saw a snake and I say, 'I don't think so.'" Barb Misra now knows her husband did see a snake. She encountered it herself when she walked out her front door to a five-foot long serpent.

"I was frightened and I didn't know anything about that there had been snakes that the people behind us found in their garage." Her neighbors found an exotic Mexican rattle snake. Residents of the Madison Manor neighborhood of Arlington believe the animal came from the house filled with snakes.

Neighbors knew the man who lived in the house had pet snakes, but their concern escalated after the man called in a plumber a couple months ago. "He comes to the hot tub and finds a container with 20 dead rattlesnakes, so he calls the police." The police couldn't go anything because the county has no prohibition on exotic or poisonous pet snakes.

Last week, residents said a three-year-old girl found a snake crawling down a sidewalk. "I would hate to think that my kids cant walk around in their own yard or in a local park," said Arlington resident Howard Hudgins.

Residents will meet with county officials as the county board takes up a measure to ban poisonous snakes.

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