Meet Rocky Bal-boa.
The 6-foot snake, who was abandoned in Central Park, got his name the hard way. He got stuck in a rock fissure yesterday, but animal rescuers managed to get him out before he could hurt himself.
“This has been our week for the wild kingdom,” joked city Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. “First, we had the sharks at Rockaway Beach. Then, the raccoon attack at Prospect Park. Today, it’s the boa.”
A park visitor spotted the Colombian red-tail boa poking out of a rock outcropping near the Heckscher Ballfields yesterday, he said.
The passer-by alerted a gardener, who called in park rangers and the NYPD Emergency Service Unit.
The roving reptile appeared to be stuck in a 3-inch crack.
“First, they tried flushing the snake out by putting water in from the top,” Benepe said.
“That didn’t work. The snake started to drink the water.”
Cops eventually were able to drill him out. The brown-gold snake was taken to the city’s Animal Care and Control and will likely end up in a reptile refuge.