I wish this news piece had a byline so that I could shake the author's hand. I cannot find one single thing wrong with it--it's perfect. We're presented with information in a relevant and orderly manner, the story is free of any grotesque punctuation, and yeah, while it's a little sensational, I'd actually like to know if snakes are tooling around on public transportation in my city*. And I LOVE the part where they send the bus back to Port Authority because they have a resident snake expert on retainer. Oh wait, no they don't.:
"We have an employee who's familiar with snakes and other reptiles," Mr. Ritchie said. The employee was bit on the finger while trying to remove the unwanted guest; paramedics treated him as a precaution.
Let's take a minute to let it sink in that they didn't send the bus with the loose snake on it to animal control, or to a trained snake expert, or to the zoo or anything reasonable like that; they child-labor styled the problem to some in-house person with a "familiarity" with reptiles. It's beyond idiotic.
Seriously, cheers to whoever wrote this.
*"Snakes on a bus neé plane" reference excluded on purpose, and it is noted that the reporter avoided the reference as well. Four thumbs-up.