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| I'd rather find a snake on the subway than this woman spaying shrapnel. |
BOSTON - It is a hefty cleaning bill for a Massachusetts woman whose 3-foot long boa constrictor slithered away from her on a Red Line subway car in Boston and hid in the car for nearly a month. Transit officials want 30-year-old Melissa Moorhouse of Allston to pay $650 to cover the costs of disinfecting and sanitizing the train to protect passengers from germs such as salmonella that may have been left by the Penelope the snake.
Who is the MBTA kidding here, anyone who's ever been on the subway is aware that $650 is probably the equivalent of their entire cleaning budget for the year. I'm not siding with this girl, I still think anyone that needs the comfort of their pet snake with them when they're traveling on the subway needs a mental eval, but $650 to clean up after a snake is an absolute joke.
On any given day 1 out of 5 subway cars in Boston smells like piss. You know why? Because someone pissed in them. There are old food wrappers, half drank cups of soda and alcohol, countless newspapers, bums taking naps, junkies taking rides just to stay warm, and old Asian ladies carting around live produce from what I can tell. You want to talk about Salmonella? Lets talk about the people who smell like they just got off their shift at the hen slaughtering house.
And to top off the hypocrisy, dogs are allowed on the subway. I have no problem with this, but it seems like an asshole move to charge one lady for cleanup of a pet snake and to just turn a blind eye towards the dog that earlier that day probably ate his own shit and is now just chumming it up in the seat, licking its surroundings. That's gotta be a health violation.
