diff --git a/decision-task.py b/decision-task.py
index ad61bb5f405..fa119977829 100644
--- a/decision-task.py
+++ b/decision-task.py
@@ -36,9 +36,5 @@ payload = {
 }
 # https://docs.taskcluster.net/docs/reference/workers/docker-worker/docs/features#feature-taskclusterproxy
 queue = taskcluster.Queue(options={"baseUrl": "http://taskcluster/queue/v1/"})
-queue.ping()
-try:
-    result = queue.createTask(task_id, payload)
-    print("task %s created…? %r" % (task_id, result))
-except Exception as e:
-    print(e, vars(e))
+result = queue.createTask(task_id, payload)
+print("task %s created…? %r" % (task_id, result))