A pet python that had free rein of the house wrapped itself around its teen owner’s head – then trapped the girl’s mother when she tried to help.

Police in Sandy, Utah, had to kick down the door to the apartment because the 16-year-old girl and her mother couldn’t move. When the mom tried to help the girl, the 6-foot snake wrapped itself around the mom’s arm – then clamped its mouth on to the daughter’s finger.

Officers used scissors to pry open the snake’s mouth, and took it to an animal shelter.

Pythons are not venomous. They kill by wrapping themselves around their prey and suffocating it.

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A sportsman claims Eminem’s music is helping him catch more fish.

Mark Elmer took his boom box to a lake in Birmingham, England, and put on the rapper’s new album, “The Eminem Show.”

“I hadn’t had much luck recently [but] inside the first 10 minutes, I had three or four bites and then I landed a whopping 5-pound tench,” he said.

“I’ve never been the greatest fisherman, but now I’m catching them by the bucketload.”

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A book due back at a Nebraska library during LBJ’s presidency has finally been returned.

Somebody slipped a copy of “Miss Abby Fitch-Martin” in the Lincoln City Library book drop more than 13,500 days past its due date of Feb. 17, 1965.

“The theory is someone was cleaning out a relative’s house that passed away and found the book,” said library spokeswoman Barbara Hansen.

She said the borrower’s records are long gone and the library would not try to collect the late fee of about $3,400.

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Ten thousand bras lined the Las Vegas strip in a 3.2-mile-long chain last weekend in one of the more bizarre sights the famed gambling mecca has seen.

Strangely, it wasn’t a promotion for a new topless revue – but rather to raise awareness about breast cancer.

“What a perfect place to break the moral stigma,” said Ken Carson, whose radio-station group co-sponsored the event with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.