5-Foot Python Threatens Cops
Eric Shapiro - posted New York Press 7-21-2010
Crime in NYC is not an exclusively human problem. At around 1 p.m. yesterday on East 161st Street, a gas station attendant happened upon a 5-foot-long, black and brown python slithering along a garbage-ridden street. No laws against that, I suppose. But then, for no apparent reason, the serpent began to threaten passersby. “The snake was hissing at us,” Ricardo Andino told the New York Daily News. “I’ve never seen one like it before.”
When cops arrived, the python became threatening and belligerent, refusing to be taken into custody voluntarily. After about 20 minutes of grappling, the cops managed to trap the python in a box provided by Extra Gas Station employee Ricardo Andino. It is now in the temporary custody of Animal Care and Control. “We think it was somebody’s pet,” spokesman Richard Gentles said.
Crime in NYC is not an exclusively human problem. At around 1 p.m. yesterday on East 161st Street, a gas station attendant happened upon a 5-foot-long, black and brown python slithering along a garbage-ridden street. No laws against that, I suppose. But then, for no apparent reason, the serpent began to threaten passersby. “The snake was hissing at us,” Ricardo Andino told the New York Daily News. “I’ve never seen one like it before.”
When cops arrived, the python became threatening and belligerent, refusing to be taken into custody voluntarily. After about 20 minutes of grappling, the cops managed to trap the python in a box provided by Extra Gas Station employee Ricardo Andino. It is now in the temporary custody of Animal Care and Control. “We think it was somebody’s pet,” spokesman Richard Gentles said.