A several-foot-long black snake slipped on a subway platform just feet from a seemingly unperturbed strap hanger in a video shared on social media – a hold on normalcy on this beautiful Sunday afternoon! Nature is healed! New York is back! Move on to Pizza Rat! Seriously, move right over or be eaten.
The undated video was sent to Canella Gomez operator Sunday morning, Gomez said.
It is not clear from which station the video was taken.
“I thought I saw it all, but this may not be real,” the train operator said in a tweet.
Typically, we see riders of the subway taking apparent pet pythons on subway journeys, as these two women accidentally carry a giant snake in the L-train, another that just hangs on the handrail, when this man calls you a pet snake takes OUT OF its completely safe carrier at 3 o’clock Seriously, people love their snakes in the trains.
This snake turned out to be an eastern rat snake, formerly known as black rat snakes. The non-venomous species can reach seven feet long, and they also eat rodents.
The MTA has not been able to find reports of a snake on a platform in recent days, said MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan. We asked the NYPD if it had information, and we will update when we hear back.
