This is apparently an issue for Philadelphia as well:
http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/12169402/brief-snake-found-dead-in-tr...
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Snakes
By adamg - 6/29/15 - 7:51 pm
Penelope, is that you?
Brookline Police ask:
Missing a snake? Found on Pond Av today, taken to Boston shelter. Believed to be someone's healthy pet
H/t Steve Annear.
By adamg - 6/24/15 - 7:02 pm
Officers successfully relocate 5-foot Timber Rattlesnake found near an office building near Blue Hills pic.twitter.com/hIY5xPml8A
— MAEnviroPolice (@MAEnviroPolice) June 24, 2015
By adamg - 5/28/15 - 1:16 pm
Loose boa. Photo by Braintree Police.
UPDATE: Teacup-poodle owners can relax: SNAKE HAS BEEN FOUND AND IN CUSTODY WITH ANIMAL CONTROL. AREA IS NOW SAFE
Braintree Police are warning owners of small pets in South Braintree to keep them inside until an escaped boa constrictor is recaptured. Read more.
By adamg - 4/22/15 - 8:45 pm
Kate Lockwood reports:
It's not every day you see someone get on the T carrying a live 6-foot snake. So that happened.
She says the woman had the snake around her neck and that the pair got off at Green Street. She adds the snake:
Was a kind of light brown with black spots I think. I was trying not to stare!
Has Penelope moved to JP?
By adamg - 8/1/13 - 9:43 am
EMTs responded shortly before midnight to Orton Marotta Way, where a 21-year-old man had been bitten in the right hand by a snake. EMTs, unfamiliar with snakes, were unable to identify the breed. The man complained of tingling in his hand but did not have any breathing problems, a spokesman for Boston EMS reports, adding he did not have any details on what the man was doing with the snake. Animal Control did remove the snake from the scene.
By adamg - 9/11/12 - 11:48 pm
The Globe reports a Mission Hill resident found a boa constrictor in her backyard today.
By adamg - 8/5/12 - 11:57 pm
Let's start with cobras.
OK, Steve Annear alerts us it's really a way to help a woman with multiple sclerosis pay for insurance coverage under COBRA.
By adamg - 4/5/11 - 4:30 pm
The Globe reports that even if Penelope the snake's owner had the $650 the T wants for cleaning up after the snake, she wouldn't pay it because T workers disrespected her after she reported Penelope missing.
By adamg - 2/22/11 - 4:40 pm
The MBTA has dunned Penelope the Snake's owner $650 for sanitizing the Red Line car she spent a month in.
In a letter to Melissa Moorhouse of Allston, MBTA treasurer-collector Wesley Wallace writes that letting the snake loose, even if inadvertently, violates the T's pet policy and adds:
By adamg - 2/3/11 - 8:56 pm
MBTA Transit Police tweet workers on the Red Line found Penelope, so it's safe to put your feet down on the train again (or stop worrying whether ceiling snake is watching you).
MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says a rider spotted the snake this morning. Tonight, Red Line train attendant Sharon Lynch, "a pet snake owner herself," managed to snare Penelope, who is being returned to her owner tonight.
By adamg - 1/7/11 - 12:45 pm
UPDATE: Snake found, alive and well.
This just in from Craigslist:
penelope- lost snake (T-between park and andrew)
By adamg - 1/6/11 - 1:16 pm
UPDATE: Mothereffin' snake found, alive and well.
The Globe reports the MBTA twice held up a Braintree-bound Red Line train today so inspectors could search it for a pet snake a rider reported she'd lost:
Pesaturo did not know what species of snake was reported missing, but officials are confident that the train is safe and snake-free.
By adamg - 9/25/08 - 9:11 am
Well, leaves, actually. Aaron Donovan photographs a snake about to eat a toad in the Blue Hills Reservation. Toad: It's what's for dinner!
By adamg - 7/30/07 - 4:54 pm
Shelley has a much better headline for what she saw on the way to the Orient Heights Dunkin' Donuts this morning:
... Whatever he was holding was kind of beigey-yellow, about the same color as his hair, so at first I thought it was his hair ... maybe part of a wig or fall ...
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