Snake Found . . .

. . . @BronxZoosCobra likely to be disabled soon:

The fanged fugitive was spotted coiled in a corner around 9 a.m., during one of three daily sweeps by a half-dozen zoo workers.

Using special tongs and hooks, they easily apprehended the deadly Egyptian cobra, which is now under observation.

Earlier: As If Those Reptile Exhibits Could Get Any Freakier . . .

About Those Ballfields They Promised . . .

The Times’ Corey Kilgannon notes that the ballfields that were to have replaced the ones that were razed to make way for the New Yankee Stadium are still unfinished, five years after the fact:

On Thursday, the New York Yankees begin their regular season at Yankee Stadium, a gleaming $1.5 billion behemoth that opened in the Bronx in 2009 as the new home of one of the richest franchises in sports.

But next to the stadium is a lingering eyesore — a protracted construction project that was supposed to have been transformed into three public ball fields months ahead of opening day. Instead, some coaches and neighborhood residents say, it remains a joyless Mudville.

Location Scout: Yankee Stadium.

As If Those Reptile Exhibits Could Get Any Freakier . . .

The only thing worse than a poisonous cobra escaping from its exhibit at the zoo is knowing it is still on the loose:

Bronx Zoo staffers were waiting Sunday for an escaped poisonous Egyptian cobra to get hungry enough to come out of hiding.

Once it does, they will try to nab the wily reptile, the zoo’s director said.

The zoo’s Reptile House remained closed Sunday as staff searched for the 20-inch adolescent snake noticed missing Saturday.

To Paraphrase David Wooderson In Dazed And Confused, “That’s What I Love About These Skate Parks, Man . . . I Get Older, They Stay The Same Age”

The PTA president quoted here nails it . . . the dirty little secret about skate parks is that these guys just never grow up:

In order to get into the skate park, one has to walk through the schoolyard; this is the biggest concern of parents. The open access has made it so that adults and older kids are often hanging out in the playground during the day, when young children are mere feet away, lining up for class or lunchtime. “While the kids go out and have lunch, older men are zooming through there on bikes and skateboards,” said Perez.

. . .

“People say ‘Oh, it’s only pot bags.’ Well, those matter. And it’s the alcohol, and it’s grown men riding in on bicycles,” said Perez.

“Grown men riding in on bicycles” . . . well of course it is — it’s a skate park!

But Why Are Cleats Traef?

Maybe Barry Levinson needs a new project to work on, in which case he can explain it:

At a nearby table, Kosher League alum Ezra Friedman, 17, nodded in agreement with Mr. Williams’ view that children are often more competitive than their parents, willing to play no matter what.

“In one game, we had to play without shoes, because cleats were not allowed,” said Friedman, who claims he hit a game-winning home run while his mother ran home to get shoes.

Or maybe I’m misreading it . . . with Kosher rules you can never tell. (But what a solid image to start a script with!) (We could call it Kosher Cleats!)