Penelope the pet snake’s long journey on the MBTA came to a happy end yesterday.
The Dumeril’s boa had slithered away from its owner, Melissa Moorhouse of Allston, while she was riding on the Red Line nearly a month ago. Moorhouse said she first noticed the snake missing as she headed outbound on the Red Line in the late morning of Jan. 6.
MBTA employees helped her look in the subway car in which she was riding at the JFK/UMass station, where they held the train for a few minutes, and performed a more exhaustive search at the Braintree terminus, walking through each of the six train cars and looking under the seats, with no luck.
But at 10 yesterday morning (February 3), a Red Line passenger spotted a snake and alerted a motorman, MBTA Transit Police Lieutenant Daniel Fitzgerald said last night. The train was taken out of service, but it was not until 8:30 p.m. that Red Line train attendant Sharon Lynch, a snake owner herself, got Penelope into a box at the JFK/UMass station.
“You can’t make this stuff up,’’ Fitzgerald said.
The full story is on the Boston Globe website.