Dan Rodricks: Rescued and randy, Maryland wood turtles get best revenge | STAFF COMMENTARY

One day in August 2018, conservation police officers in upstate New York busted a retired school teacher who had collected nearly 300 reptiles in his house. He had rare and threatened reptiles, reptiles poached from the wild, reptiles protected from humans by law.

At the time, the seizure was the largest of its kind in New York history, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

In all, officers rescued 292 critters.

We’re talking snakes, including three king cobras, one of which was 10 feet long.