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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Wild in the Streets

The long arm of the law, in his case, wields an animal snare. Jerrold Czech Jr., Philadelphia’s only wildlife conservation officer, prepares to take another critter into protective custody. (Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer)

Jerrold Czech is real police, keeping us safe from the animals, and more often visa versa.

Today's metro column springs from a ride-around with the city's sole Wildlife Conservation Officer.

He covers about 2 million people (including Delco these days) and deals with a lot of deer and the occasional peregrine falcon and bald eagle mama. He tells stories, dryly and well.

Didn't have time to get into the tarantulas and alligators that drug dealers like to keep under their window sills to discourage instrusions. Effective, he says. His peers in the other 135 state Game Commission Districts have lots of problems with giant animals. So does he, but it's different in the city.

In the heat of the summer, better call out a plumber ... the video that came to mind is "Wild in the Streets."

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Since joining The Inquirer as a staff writer in 1988, Daniel Rubin has reported from 27 countries, but most of them were small. He's a metro columnist and has been the European Correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers. For two years he sat at home and wrote Blinq, the paper's first daily blog. Now we make him come to work. Dan began newspaper work in Norfolk and Louisville, Ky., after getting his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University. He has lived in all four commonwealths, most recently in Pennsylvania. He teaches urban journalism at the University of Pennsylvania

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