That was intense. <\/p>\n
Bodycam footage released by police in New Jersey’s Franklin Township shows officers taking apart the entire front of a car to find a ball python apparently caught in its grille.<\/p>\n
It’s not clear who noticed the three-foot snake get into the grille and called authorities on Monday. It’s also not clear who owns it; ball pythons are among the most popular snakes kept as pets. <\/p>\n
What does appear clear from the video, though, is that none of the people in the driveway particularly like snakes. There are shrieks. The ordeal lasted about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The non-venemous slitherer was hauled out and put safely in a bag. Everyone breathed sighs of relief.<\/p>\n
“I can’t believe this s*** was in my car!’ the owner yelled. <\/p>\n
No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Local officials took the opportunity to remind residents it’s not only illegal but dangerous to release exotic animals into the wild. They could harm native species or household pets. <\/p>\n
Authorities say anyone in the area with a pet snake they can’t or won’t care for any longer should call the Franklin Township Animal Shelter at 732-873-2500 ext. 6255.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That was intense. Bodycam footage released by police in New Jersey’s Franklin Township shows officers taking apart the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1066,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-350314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}