Woman ‘almost crashed car’ when snake found

Woman ‘almost crashed car’ when snake found

VENICE, Fla.

Something more than air came slithering out of a car vent in Florida.

Monica Dorsett says she “almost crashed her car” when a red rat snake crawled out the air conditioner vent as she drove down a highway in Venice.

Dorsett tells Fox 13 she was in traffic recently when she saw the snake slither out of the vent to the left of her steering wheel.

She cut across two lanes and stopped in a parking lot.

She says she slammed the door with the snake half in and half out. Her husband then opened the door and the snake fell to the ground. She says he “euthanized” it.

Robber breaks leg, calls for help, gets arrested

ALEXANDRIA, Va.

A robber in Virginia ruined his own getaway – first by breaking his leg in a jump off a balcony and then by calling the authorities to help him.

Police say 21-year-old Leoul Yosef will be charged with burglary for robbing an Alexandria apartment recently and then jumping off the second-story balcony after the owner returned home.

Fairfax County Police Officer Don Gatthardt says Yosef left tracks in the snow when he jumped.

Officers say they were following the snow trail when they received a 911 call from a man in the vicinity saying he’d broken his leg. Responding officers matched the identity of the caller to the burglary suspect.

NYPD rescues duck from subway line tracks

NEW YORK

New York City officers found themselves chasing down a duck that strayed onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station recently.

Police arrived at the Jefferson Street station on the L line around 9 a.m. to find the duck down in the tracks.

Officers Frantz Chauvet and Anastasiya Mishchenko and detectives Kevin Conway and Michael Black worked to rescue it.

The New York Police Department’s Transit Bureau posted video on Twitter of the officers carrying the bird along the platform and later releasing the duck in a park.

Associated Press