Overland Park police on Tuesday insisted that the city does not have a snake problem.
That was after officers, for the second time this month, responded to a situation with a large snake slithering around a resident’s home.
On Tuesday, the Police Department tweeted a photo of an officer holding a 4-foot snake in the basement of a home, two weeks after a large boa constrictor had been found wrapped around the mailbox at another house. No animal control officer was available, so police responded. An officer caught the snake, took it to a wooded area and released it. The family told the officer it was the second time they had found a snake in their basement. “We had a wild night with wild animals,” said Officer John Lacy. “It was a slow night, but we were dealing with animal calls all night long.”
However, Lacy insisted that Overland Park has not been overrun with reptiles.
“Again, we do NOT have a snake problem in OP, your kids are safe indoors,” Lacy wrote on Twitter.
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