Wednesday morning, a 5-foot-long snake tried to get into an apartment on the Upper West Side. Police and the person who found it said they didn’t know where it came from.
Around 8 a.m., resident Sam Sullivan saw the boa constrictor slithering on an outside gate near his basement apartment. He called the police to the building on West 87 Street near Columbus Avenue.
He told The Post, “There was a snake in between my fence and my neighbor’s fence.” Sullivan is 50 years old.
“I called 911 because it was on top of the fence.”
According to a video shared by the NYPD, the Emergency Service Unit arrived on the scene carefully picked up the snake, and put it in a polka-dot pillowcase.
The snake was then given to the Animal Care Centers of NYC by the police.
Police said they didn’t know who owned the brown-spotted boa constrictor or where it came from.
Sullivan said, “I have no idea where it came from.” He also called the find a “urban legend.”
His words were like, “Someone had a pet that got loose and ended up on my fence.”
“I don’t want PETA to think I have snakes,” she said.
Other people in the area were shocked by the strange find.
Alex Noschese, 36, a resident, told The Post, “It’s all very scary because I have a cat and a little daughter, and it looks like it was a boa constrictor.”
A representative for Animal Care Centers said that it is against the law in New York City to own a boa constrictors.
An official said that the animal was given to a foster parent outside of New York City.
The discovery came a few days after a man from New York crashed a rented U-Haul van while moving a couch with his friend and found a live 3.5-foot white snake under the seat.
The driver picked it up because he thought someone had left a toy behind.
“It was hot and heavy.” “Then it turned its head and looked at me,” Jared told The Post after hitting a car in Soho. He didn’t want to give his last name.
“I don’t like snakes.” I went crazy. I forgot to press down on the brakes and hit the car in front of us.
