St. Patrick would likely approve.
Savannah is banning the public display of snakes at the upcoming St. Patrick's Day festival.
Pythons and other snakes have been part of the Georgia city's famed St. Patrick's Day festivities in recent years, and the snake handlers are often mobbed by people by the reptiles, the Savannah Morning News reported.
"If it has scales and is cold-blooded, you cannot bring it," Marty Johnston, the city's acting assistant city manager for management services, said.
Local reptile handlers appear to agree with the ruling. The report said that they there cite real safety concerns with some snakes, including pythons.
Legend has it that St. Patrick banished snakes from Ireland though the absence of them from the island goes back a long time before the fifth century, to the last Ice Age.
