Posted on 11/28/2017 4:08:55 PM PST by NRx
BANGKOK — Panarat Chaiyaboon was using the toilet in her downstairs bathroom in July when she felt a sharp bite on her thigh. She jumped up to see a scene straight out of a nightmare: an 8-foot python emerging from her toilet. She rushed to the hospital, bleeding heavily, and still bears the marks from eight tooth punctures that were around half an inch deep.
That snake was captured. But a week later, Ms. Panarat’s 15-year-old daughter found a second python in the same toilet. The daughter was so shaken, she went to stay with relatives.
It could be argued that snakes have always owned this corner of Thailand, and that the people of Bangkok are merely borrowing it from them. The main airport, Suvarnabhumi, was built in a place called Cobra Swamp, and the city itself took shape on the Chao Phraya River delta — a marshy reptile paradise.
But this year, the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department, which removes snakes from homes, has been busier than ever.
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Just stay in a hi-rise.
Eat Mexican food.
Waiting for jokes about “one night in Bangkok”.
I understand that men who go searching for feminine companionship in Thailand have also discovered “snakes” in unexpected places.
The Red Cross snake farm is in Bangkok.
They raise King Cobras in large pools/rice paddies about 1/2 acre in size.
Hundreds of them.
They milk them daily (talk about “dirty jobs”!) and inject horses with sub-lethal levels of venom.
From there they extract anti-venom from the horses blood.
If those snakes ever get loose you’d have to characterize it as a terrorist incident.
"...THAILAND?..."
Yeah ... right. Sounds like that man who used to believe that grizzly bears were harmless, and went around patting them, but he is dead now.
I was in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, and they said when it rains heavy and there is flooding they have crocodiles roaming around parts of the city.
...where snakes are lurking in the Murray Head...
I’ve told this before here. We arrived at the old family farm in TX and mother ran in to use the bathroom. She came running back out saying there was a snake in the toilet. We looked but didn’t see anything so continued to unload the car. She kept on and on about a snake until grand dad couldn’t take it anymore. His solution to everything was gasoline so he poured a container down the toilet. I sat down in front of it and propped my chin on the seat. Then got my face even further in when a bunch of white gunk bubbled up when suddenly BAM! A six foot racer flew out hitting me square in the face. I ran screaming out and met mother screaming in the couch in the living room. Grandpa, who was never scared of anything, ran to the kitchen and yelled for someone to shut the bathroom door. Prim and proper Mother, who never said a curse word, told him to shut the @%*&^)(# door himself. He got the door shut but, it being an old farm house, the space between the bottom of the door and the floor was large enough for the snake to come out and straight to the living room. Grandpa finally got a hoe and chased it around. It was going crazy from the gas and was climbing the walls. Eventually, Grandpa killed it. Mother took care of her business outside.
Grandpa later admitted he’d heard something rattling around in the bathroom a few nights and had put a rock on the lid.
It would be nice if the Bangcok fire and rescue department would remove the snakes at the NYTs.
I was expecting a Global Warming reference. It is the Slimes, afterall.
In Texas, snakes aren't sent to a rehab center.
In these here parts they are ceremoniously eaten.
And then we make boots out of their skins.
This happened at an apartment building I worked at in a Chicago Illinois suburb. Someone’s “pet” python was getting ready to molt. So he put it in a bucket full of water in the bathtub to help it in the process, but neglected to close the lid on the toilet.
The snake decided it liked the toilet better, and decided to explore so it slithered down the toilet into the pipes.
A man who lived one unit over came home late saturday night after having had a good amount to drink. He went into the bathroom and turned on the light, and a snake had is head up out of the toilet bowl and was scoping things out. While he watched the snake lowered back into bowl and he quickly closed the lid. He started putting a bowling ball in the toilet when he was not around.
They figured this out when the man went to management about the snake in the toilet. I do not know what happened to the Herptologist next door but it probably violated some provision of the lease. Maintainence flushed the pipes in the building with Lye and the snake was not seen again.
When Bangkok becomes Bitekok.
One really needs to understand that the sewer system in Bangkok is quite different than most U.S. systems...
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