It was a Diamondback impersonation!
A python was spotted slithering around a store in the heart of New York’s diamond district on Friday, just two days after another snake was spotted on the Upper West Side.
Police said the roughly 2-foot-long reptile was found inside Fantasy Diamonds on the corner of West 47th Street and Sixth Avenue, just steps from the bustling Rockefeller Center subway station.
Someone called 911 and the python was transported to the city’s animal shelter, where it was named “Sir Hiss” and placed in a foster home.
Police said it is unclear how the brown and gold patterned snake ended up at the store and the investigation is ongoing.
Store employees declined to comment when contacted by The Washington Post.
The snake’s discovery came a day after a 5-foot-long snake was spotted Wednesday morning trying to get into an apartment on West 87th Street near Columbus Avenue.
Resident Sam Sullivan saw the boa constrictor crawling along an exterior gate near his basement apartment around 8 a.m.
NYPD emergency crews responded to the scene, seized the reptile and carefully placed it inside a polka-dot pillowcase, according to video released by the NYPD.
Police then handed the snake over to a New York City animal shelter, where it was placed in a foster home in the New York suburbs.
The snake’s origins and how it ended up on the city’s streets are also unclear.
And last Saturday, a New York man crashed his rented U-Haul van while he and his roommate were transporting a couch because a live 3.5-foot white snake was under the seat.
