Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A professional snake catcher in India stopped on a busy road to help a venomous cobra cross without being run over. Manas Ranjan Mohanty, who works as a catcher for the Snake Helpline, said he was riding his motorcycle on a busy road near Bhubaneswar, India, when he spotted the snake slithering across the street. Advertisement Mohanty recorded video as he blocked traffic to allow the snake to pass unmolested. "These drivers have set a good example at a time of increasing vehicular mortality of snakes," said Subhendu Mallik, general secretary of the Snake Helpline. Read More Deadly snake joins kids in backyard pool Two-headed copperhead snake donated to Kentucky center Python falls through ceiling at Chinese bank