Herpetology
Pinney was a world traveling herpetologist who collected venomous and non venomous snakes the world over. He was an active member of the New York Herpetological Society, serving as that organization's president for four years ending in 1989.
Throughout his career Pinney developed a reputation as the go-to man for expert information on the care of snakes and other reptiles. During the 1980s and early 1990s the, then active duty New York City police officers and now notorious "mafia cops", Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa routinely gave Roy Pinney the exotic pets they would seize from drug dealers after the arrests they would regularly make. Over the years Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa gave Pinney several pythons, an anaconda and even a live galapagos turtle among other exotic animals.
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