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3-foot-long snake found slithering across NYC street: cops
By Amanda Woods,
2 hours ago
I’m slitherin’ here! I’m slitherin’ here!
A 3-foot-long snake was caught making its way across a Big Apple street Sunday morning, cops said.
The reptile was discovered wriggling around a jersey barrier set up for construction at Washington Street and West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District around 11:15 a.m., authorities said.
“Why did the snake cross the road? To get to the other ssssssssside,” the NYPD tweeted . “Earlier today, @NYPD6Pct officers received a 911 call of a snake slithering across the street. Fortunately, the officer managed to corral the snake & transport it to the nearest @NYCACC.”
It came less than two weeks after a black-and-white snake was discovered in the lobby of a rehab center on Amsterdam Avenue near 156th Street in Washington Heights, around 10:30 p.m. July 24, according to police.
The gold patterned snake was taken to the nearest Animal Control Center, police said. @NYPDnews/X
In early June, a python was spotted slithering around a store in the heart of the Big Apple’s Diamond District Friday.
The approximately 2-foot long reptile, dubbed Sir Hiss , was discovered inside Fantasy Diamonds at the corner of West 47th Street and Sixth Avenue — steps from the buzzing Rockefeller Center subway station, police said.
Earlier that week, a 5-foot-long boa constrictor was spotted trying to get inside an apartment on West 87th Street near Columbus Avenue, cops said.
That discovery came days after a New Yorker crashed a rented U-Haul van when he found a live 3.5-foot white snake under his seat while transporting a couch with his roommate.
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