bizarre search is now unfolding on queensland 's gold coast that if the large-predatory boa has inclusion body disease ` it can be unbelievably contagious if that gets loose in australia ' .
mr harrison told daily mail australia : ` police should have called the snake catchers and we 'd have euthanised it .
was very silly of them .
queensland police say officers were called to the esplanade at the base of a tree on a footpath .