On Sept. 23, a motorist felt something slithering up her leg while zooming down State Route 17 in Delaware County, New York.
The motorist quickly pulled over, scrambled out of her car, and called emergency services.
Two New York State Department of Environmental Conservation police officers, as well as a state Trooper, soon arrived and began searching the motorist’s vehicle for a snake of some kind.
New York is home to 17 species of snake. Three species are venomous, including timber rattlesnakes, which are often found in Delaware County.
One of the ECOs pulled a two-foot-long garter snake from inside the vehicle and carried it to a tree line where he released it. How the snake got in the vehicle is a mystery.
Garter snakes are common throughout NY and can be found in a variety of habitats including woodlands, marshes, and backyards, but rarely cars. They are not venomous and present no threat to people or pets.
The following reports are excerpted from DEC
K9 Finn with oversized striped bass confiscated in Suffolk County.NYS DEC
ECOs on Long Island ticketed anglers in recent weeks for undersized and over-the-limit fish:
Aug. 23, six people at Mascot Dock in the village of Patchogue were ticketed for possessing dozens of undersized blue crabs.Sept. 1, four people received eight tickets for possession of undersized sea bass and tautog, failure to carry a marine registry, and parking without a permit in the Flax Pond Tidal Wetland Area in Setauket. Sept. 10, an angler fishing for stripped bass on the Ponquogue Bridge in Southampton was ticketed for keeping undersized bass and exceeding the daily catch limit.Sept. 11, two anglers fishing from a boat under the Meadowbrook Drawbridge in Freeport were ticketed for being over their limit of bluefish, possessing an undersized striped bass, and failing to possess a marine registry. Sept. 18, four people in Port Jefferson were issue multiple tickets for posession of undersized porgy, black sea bass, and fluke. The fish were confiscated and given to Sweetbriar Nature Center to feed eagles and osprey at the facility.
On Oct. 1, an ECO in the town of Hampton pulled over a pickup truck that was belching heavy black smoke. An opacity meter measured the smoke at 96.5-percent, one of the darkest the ECO had ever measured. For context, a heavy-duty diesel vehicle weighing more than 8,500 lbs made after 1991 cannot legally exceed more than 40-percent opacity. The driver was ticketed and the case will be used to train new ECOs.
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