I’m crawling here! I’m crawling here!
A three-foot-long snake was captured trying to cross a street in New York on Sunday morning, police said.
Authorities said the reptile was found about 11:15 a.m. squirming around a Jersey barrier that had been set up for construction at the intersection of Washington Avenue and West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District.
“Why did the snake cross the road? To get to the other side.” the NYPD tweeted..
“Today, officers from @NYPD6Pct received a 911 call about a snake crawling down the road. Thankfully, officers were able to corral the snake and transport it to the nearest @NYCACC.”
Police said the animal was taken to the nearest animal control center.
The slithering snake found Sunday is at least the fifth snake discovered by chance in New York in about two months.
The incident happened less than two weeks after a black-and-white snake was discovered around 10:30 p.m. on July 24 in the lobby of a rehabilitation center on Amsterdam Street near 156th Street in Washington Heights, police said.
A python was spotted Friday slithering around a store in the heart of New York’s diamond district in early June.
Police said the roughly 2-foot-long reptile, named Sir Hiss, was found inside Fantasy Diamonds on the corner of West 47th Street and Sixth Avenue, just steps from the bustling Rockefeller Center subway station.
Earlier in the week, a 5-foot-long boa constrictor was spotted trying to get into an apartment on West 87th Street near Columbus Avenue, police said.
The discovery comes just days after a New York man and his roommate were transporting a couch when they discovered a live 3.5-foot white snake under the seat of a rented U-Haul van that crashed into the vehicle.
