Poor critter. Glad they saved it.
Okay, so a serious Sh1thole country, but glad to see they freed the lizard instead of eating it.
This same thing happened to a black snake snuck in my chain link fence once. It took a neighbor and me a few hours to rescue it, and it realized we were trying to help, didn’t fight us.
The main park in Bangkok, Lumphini Park, was the site of a culling of the monitor lizards in the fall of 2016. Over a hundred were taken for ‘resettlement’ in another area. Judging from the number of lizards we encountered in Bangkok last summer, that city wouldn’t miss 100 lizards. Many people live on the banks of the canals in Bangkok. We took a boat ride on the canals and saw several lizards crawling on the rocks about 5 feet below the houses on the canals. Our tour guide said the lizards will bite babies if they get the chance. It was creepy.
You gotta talk to your relative about his weight problem.