{"id":799532,"date":"2026-05-16T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799532\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:02:13","slug":"man-abandons-exotic-snakes-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-lapd-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799532\/","title":{"rendered":"Man abandons exotic snakes on Hollywood Walk of Fame, LAPD intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A man abandoned his exotic snakes along the Hollywood Walk of Fame after fleeing when Los Angeles police officers tried to contact him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYBQUiYTNSW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LAPD posted images<\/a> of the snakes on Instagram, after officers had to handle the snakes on Hollywood Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The department says their Hollywood vice officers noticed a man parading exotic snakes around for tourist money. When they tried contacting him as he walked past the Hollywood Wax Museum, the man &#8220;slithered&#8221; away, but left the snakes behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The snakes were placed in a bin by officers and delivered to L.A. Animal Control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s unclear what type of snakes they are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LAPD&#8217;s Vice Unit has been around for a while. It focuses on policing high-concentration areas like Hollywood Boulevard, typically handling things like prostitution, narcotics, and nightlife regulation. Add to that&#8211; snake wrangling.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A man abandoned his exotic snakes along the Hollywood Walk of Fame after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[325838,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-799532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-325838","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116581796712467483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}