Snakes Alive!

North Ridgeville Police have seen it all! Well, almost. Until this week. They’ve seen a kangaroo, a “Moodini” and even a racoon in a dishwasher. This week it was a 6 foot snake (we think). Now they have seen it all.

Here’s the adventure in their own words. Bravo on the story telling!

“Well. The call was a big Diamondback Rattlesnake in the middle of Lorain Rd. Now normally you’d just shrug this off as someone getting all excited about a little garter snake and over reacting. Except for one very important part of this story that I left out.

“Officer John Metzo was dispatched to it.

“John rescued a kangaroo. He pulled a raccoon out of a dishwasher. He caught a cow named “Moodini” that fell out of a truck. If anyone was going to a Diamondback Rattlesnake call, it’s John.

“Now, keep in mind that we’re not an urban community but we’re urban enough that we don’t run into a lot of wildlife outside of deer and raccoons. And kangaroos. And cows, that are actually bulls, but whatever. And pigs following people home. And skunks with cups on their heads. I digress.

“We found said rattlesnake on the side of Lorain Rd. but it wasn’t rattling. And it was 27 feet long. And might have been a cobra. In fairness we don’t know snakes.

“John gets it off the road with a noose and now he’s mad. The anaconda, not John. I look at John, John looks at me. “Now what?” I ask. We agree that we can’t release a 30 foot black mamba into the neighborhood so we call the Metroparks and they send out a Ranger.

“Turns out it’s a 6 foot rat snake. Don’t judge us. It looked bigger when it tried to kill us.

“Anyway. All’s well. The Ranger seized the nope rope and took him to the land of nope ropes so he can live out his days, apparently chasing rats.

“No snakes were harmed in this incident. We can’t speak for what’s about to happen to the rats.”