BALLWIN, Mo. — Ballwin police like to let the public know, “If you need us, we’ll be there.”
And now, we know that means coming to the rescue of a snake removal.
Officers recently responded to a home in the St. Louis County suburb for an animal complaint. It wasn’t a loose dog or a cat stuck in a tree, but a snake inside a house.
“Arriving officers discovered a scene that commonly causes significant consternation among the rational public… a significantly [long] snake,” the police department shared in its weekly roundup on Facebook.
Luckily, one of the officers on the scene didn’t have a fear of snakes.
“An officer lacking ophidiophobia arrived on scene and was able to relocate the serpent back to its natural habitat,” police said.
The department shared a photo of the officer smiling while holding the snake by its tail before carefully letting the “suspect” loose.
“As always, if you need us, we’ll be there.”
