This was a ssssurprising find.
A 3-foot-long snake was caught slithering its way across a Big Apple street Sunday morning, cops said.
The reptile was discovered wriggling around a jersey barrier set up for construction at Washington Street and West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District around 11:15 a.m., authorities said.
“Why did the snake cross the road? To get to the other ssssssssside,” the NYPD tweeted.
“Earlier today, @NYPD6Pct officers received a 911 call of a snake slithering across the street. Fortunately, the officer managed to corral the snake & transport it to the nearest @NYCACC.”
It was taken to the nearest Animal Control Center, police said.
Sunday’s slithering find marked at least the fifth snake randomly found in the Big Apple within about two months.
It came less than two weeks after a black-and-white snake was discovered in the lobby of a rehab center on Amsterdam Avenue near 156th Street in Washington Heights, around 10:30 p.m. July 24, according to police.
In early June, a python was spotted slithering around a store in the heart of the Big Apple’s Diamond District Friday.
The approximately 2-foot long reptile, dubbed Sir Hiss, was discovered inside Fantasy Diamonds at the corner of West 47th Street and Sixth Avenue — steps from the buzzing Rockefeller Center subway station, police said.
Earlier that week, a 5-foot-long boa constrictor was spotted trying to get inside an apartment on West 87th Street near Columbus Avenue, cops said.
That discovery came days after a New Yorker crashed a rented U-Haul van when he found a live 3.5-foot white snake under his seat while transporting a couch with his roommate.
