State Trooper Responds To Call Regarding A ‘Python Dropped In A Toll Collector’s Basket’
- 6 years ago
The New Jersey State Police reported on Friday that it was informed a trooper was responding to “a python dropped in a toll collector's basket at the southbound Essex tolls.”
The New Jersey State Police reported on Friday that it was informed a trooper was responding to "a python dropped in a toll collector's basket at the southbound Essex tolls." It noted in a Facebook post that, while on his way to the scene, the trooper "tried to remember our snake handling portion of our academy training. Luckily, by the time he arrived, he remembered--we don't have a snake handling portion of academy training." Though the snake was not, in fact, in the basket but rather in a tank abandoned on the side of the road, the slithering reptile still needed to be contained. According to the police post, the law enforcement officer "cleverly used his expandable baton as a standard snake tong and his issued leather gloves to keep off all of the slime...Snakes are slimy, right?" The mission was a success, and both the trooper and the python emerged unharmed. Further, the latter now has a lovely new home with New Jersey Exotic Pets.
The New Jersey State Police reported on Friday that it was informed a trooper was responding to "a python dropped in a toll collector's basket at the southbound Essex tolls." It noted in a Facebook post that, while on his way to the scene, the trooper "tried to remember our snake handling portion of our academy training. Luckily, by the time he arrived, he remembered--we don't have a snake handling portion of academy training." Though the snake was not, in fact, in the basket but rather in a tank abandoned on the side of the road, the slithering reptile still needed to be contained. According to the police post, the law enforcement officer "cleverly used his expandable baton as a standard snake tong and his issued leather gloves to keep off all of the slime...Snakes are slimy, right?" The mission was a success, and both the trooper and the python emerged unharmed. Further, the latter now has a lovely new home with New Jersey Exotic Pets.