Metro
Published
Sep. 16, 2023, 9:59 a.m. ET
It’s a jungle down there.
A thriller man has been strutting the streets of the Upper West Side — and the subways under — with a 6-foot snake coiled round his neck.
One resident was rattled by the transit-riding reptile.
“This man walked right into the subway station at West 96th and Broadway and down to the trains with this huge snake wrapped around his neck!” Michelle Kucsma, 65, posted on the group app Next Door.
“I told both the clerk and two police officers at the station but they were not concerned at all,” she wrote.
“The police informed me it’s not unlawful to convey a snake on the prepare and surmised that it is perhaps an emotional assist animal.
“I said, ‘I would need a support animal to deal with that support animal!’”
The officers claimed the snake was “just like a cat or a dog,” she recalled. “They also said you could bring a rat on if you wanted.”
Kucsma described the creepy Thursday encounter to The Post.
“I was shaking. It was huge. It was as wide as my hand open, and went way down below his waist. He was very calm walking around.”
Sarcastic cops apart, many varieties of snakes — together with vipers, cobras, pythons and anacondas — are unlawful within the 5 boroughs.
Kucsma, a Louisiana native who has lived within the Big Apple for 30 years and is retired from the state court docket system, wasn’t alone in her concern.
Sarah Hayden additionally posted on the app in regards to the snake charmer, saying she was leaving the “Barbie” film on the AMC Empire 25 on West forty second Street together with her husband and 11-year-old daughter when she walked by a person with a “huge” snake in Times Square.
“I brushed past and my husband said, ‘That snake just about bit you!’ ” the Murray Hill resident who hails from Ireland informed The Post.
“I wasn’t too thrilled,” she stated of the Aug. 26 sighting. “I thought there was some restriction on live animals.”
She believes the snake handler she noticed is identical because the one Kucsma photographed.
“Maybe St. Patrick can get rid of the snakes — and the rats while he’s at it!”
Ryan Shannon, 42, who runs The Snake Pit NYC reptile retailer in Queens believes the unidentified pedestrian is carrying a boa. “You see dudes walking around with them on the Coney Island Boardwalk and in Times Square,” he stated.
The NYPD referred The Post to the division’s patrol information, which specified that emotional assist animals are allowed, animals on transit have to be “enclosed in a container and carried in a manner which would not annoy other passengers.”
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