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Not too long after we’d finished running the Race for the Cure on Saturday, Mrs. Columbo and I spotted a snake wiggling his/her way up E street. There were a decent number of people out, so the snake quickly went down into a sidewalk grate and peeked out occasionally to see what all the fuss was about.
This grate is right in front of Asia Nine. The snake started drawing quite a crowd and a front desk person from the Artisan came out to investigate and said they’d call animal control. Never was much of a boy scout so we’re hoping this was a harmless reptile who just had a bad sense of direction.
** UPDATED 6/8/08 @ 5:26 pm**
An eyewitness reports that I missed the best drama. Apparently animal control declared (over the phone) that the snake was a garden snake and not a pet, so they would not come out and pick it up (they only pick up pets?). The snake soon left the grate and slithered down the sidewalk to McDonald’s, under their door and into the restaurant. One brave customer picked up the snake by the tail, carried him out, and dropped him down one of the grates where an audible splash was heard from his fall. Presumably a sewer grate, and hopefully the snake has made his/her way to safety.
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Poor snake! I hope someone took it and released it into a more hospitable environment, such as Rock Creek Park.
Look closely. It’s Jack Evans, after protecting his neighborhood from noisy demonstrators and allowing the noise level to increase in ours. Wouldn’t you be slinking away, too, when seeing your constituents?
“We only pick up pets.” WTF? So if there’s a rabid raccoon running down the road, they’ll just shrug and hang up? What about a deer with a couple broken legs on the sidewalk? Idiots.
UGH .. so how does one rid the area of snakes? Or rats? Or even get the Council to realize we are here?
ha! i tried to get animal control to deal with the raccoons screaming & makin sweet sweet love in my ceiling. they were most unhelpful & told me too bad, go hire someone. i think they only deal with dogs & cats. They wouldnt even deal with a dead bird during that whole west nile avian mad flu thing a few years ago.
wow snake in pq. of course it wanted some mcdonalds!
Animal Control sounds like every other administrative branch of the DC government…complete incompetence funded by our high taxes.
Any excuse not to do the jobs they get paid for.
Although, technically, if DC had more snakes they’d have fewer rats. And you can’t catch plague from a snake.
Creepy indeed! Poor little fella was probably on his way to a Happy Meal at the counter before he was picked up.
I suspect a publicity stunt on the part of Asia Nine (didn’t they spray paint a snake on the sidewalk?)
I once saw a wild turkey walk down E st. by the Warner during rush hour. It was scared out of its little pea-sized brain. I’m not sure what’s weirder: a snake or a wild turkey.
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Eeeeeeeeek!!!