Gjendet ne nje lagje te Nju Jorkut nje gjarper(piton) 6 kembe
Burnes Piton 6 feet 0 inches 182.88 centimeter
HARLEM NEW YORK CITY — A Parks Department employee got a nasty surprise
Wednesday afternoon when she discovered a six-foot python in the Harlem park
where she was working.
Yessenia Camacho, 29, said she was picking up trash in the north east
corner of St. Nicholas Park about 2 p.m., near the 140th Street entrance, when
what she thought was a piece of garbage in the bushes turned out to be the
snake's head
"I jumped. I was surprised because I thought it was a piece of paper, but
it was a snake — a very big snake," Camacho said. "It scared the hell out of
me!"
Camacho called her office in Morningside Park and they called a special
services department of the NYPD. Police said they arrived at the park shortly
after 2:15 p.m. and trapped the snake. They took it to an animal shelter at
110th Street, between First and Second avenues.
Richard Gentles, a spokesman for the city's department of Animal Care and
Control, confirmed that the snake was a dark brown and tan Burmese Python
about six feet in length and weighing ten pounds.
The snake is not native to the area, and Gentles speculated that it had
been a house pet that had gotten either too large or too aggressive for its
owner, who then abandoned it in the park.
Gentles said the Python will likely end up in a snake sanctuary.
Shawn Faison, a veterinarian tech assistant for Animal Care and Control,
said that the snake was in good shape when they got it this afternoon.
"He's very healthy. He looks like he was owned, because he was so healthy.
Luckily, he was found and brought to a shelter," Faison said.
Camacho, who grew up in Harlem but now lives in the Bronx, said that prior
to Wednesday, she had only seen a snake like that at the zoo.
"Welcome to the Parks Department," said the city employee, who just started
working with Parks two months ago.
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