Python in the Pot: Giant Snake Visits Thai Chicken Shop

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Picture courtesy of Thai Rath

A giant python nearly four metres long slithered into a chicken stew restaurant in Chanthaburi, with the shopkeeper opting to let it be instead of causing a scene—jesting that it might bring her true love.

 

On 18 March 2025, Chanthaburi rescue unit Sawan Kattanyu Thammasathan received a call from a chicken stew vendor, reporting a massive python at her roadside shop near Highway 317.

 

Responders coordinated with the shop owner, Ms. Pojarin Aunsiri, 48, guiding them to where the snake had coiled beneath a steel frame at the shop’s base.

 

Rescue workers faced a tricky situation; capturing the python proved challenging due to the narrow, low base. However, they managed to carefully manoeuvre and extract the snake within about 15 minutes.

 

 

 

The python, a male, was about four metres long and weighed roughly 15 kilograms. It had a slight cheek injury, which the rescue team treated before bagging it for release in a sparsely populated forest area.

 

Ms. Pojarin recounted how the python entered from a drainpipe behind the shop. She hesitated to chase it away, fearing it might get run over on the main road. Instead, she called for help, joking that its visit might hint at romance, given her single status.

 

She dismissed the idea that the snake was drawn by the smell of chicken or pork as all dishes are prepared at home and brought to the shop ready-cooked each day, reported Thai Rath.

 

-- 2025-03-19