'Biggest python in a decade' caught in Phuket

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'Biggest python in a decade' caught in Phuket
Darawan Naknakhon


While Sayan Thampan (second from left) holds the python's head, the family get a close-up look and pose for photos.

PHUKET: -- A six-metre-long, 80-kilogramme python – thought to be the largest found in Phuket for 10 years – was caught in Chalong early this morning (December 18).

The snake was caught at 1am by volunteers from the Ruamjai Kupai Foundation, who had received a call from the very nervous owner of a house in Moo Baan Maneeklam, who discovered the reptile in a store room next to the house.

Kupai snake expert Sayan Thampan and an assistant arrived and located the snake coiled up in a corner of the room.

Catching it was not easy; the store was large but the ceiling was very low – Mr Sayan and his helper found themselves trying to tackle the snake and drag it out while crawling themselves. They called for help.

Mr Sayan said, “This is the first time we have had to call for back-up to catch a snake. The room was huge, but with limited headroom, so it was difficult to pull this heavy python out.

“We have caught many big reptiles but nothing this big. This has to be the biggest snake caught in the past decade in Phuket.”

Mr Sayan and his crew did eventually capture the snake and pulled it out of the store room. It was put in a large sack and taken to the forest to be released.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/biggest-python-in-a-decade-caught-in-phuket-50180.php


-- Phuket News 2014-12-18

[garrya]

A scary thing, isn't it?

[Somtamnication]

When my wife heard about this, she asked me if I had been running around naked again.

[Morakot]

Amazing!

Well done Mr Snake Catcher!

[ersl]

When my wife heard about this, she asked me if I had been running around naked again.

She wants you to give her more money for Christmas shopping.

[konying]

as much as i hate snakes, i must say this is a magnificent looking snake

[Sabot]

A beautiful reticulated python. The longest snake species in the world.

[Torrens54]

Okay, so it was the BIGGEST one in years to be caught.

Maybe I missed something in the report, but did anyone think to measure it and weigh it?

Edited December 18, 2014 by Torrens54

[OOLEEBER]

Okay, so it was the BIGGEST one in years to be caught.

Maybe I missed something in the report, but did anyone think to measure it and weigh it?

Ermm....

Did anyone think to read the title of the article? You know. The part that's in BOLD.

Doh!

[topt]

Okay, so it was the BIGGEST one in years to be caught.

Maybe I missed something in the report, but did anyone think to measure it and weigh it?

You mean in the first sentence "A six-metre-long, 80-kilogramme python"?

[Chicog]

Okay, so it was the BIGGEST one in years to be caught.

Maybe I missed something in the report, but did anyone think to measure it and weigh it?

[ThePlant]

I hope they really do release it back into the wild and it doesn't wind up in the pot or on the market.

Incredible creature.

Edited December 18, 2014 by ThePlant

[stevehaigh]

very impressed they are going to release it into the wild, and not eat it or try sell it

[wabothai]

Unfortunately the beautiful animals are disappearing slowly as their habitats are threatened by farmers who seem to need more land to pay for their pickup trucks.

[crickets]

Id say its taken care of a few street dogs.

[Lupatria]

The biggest ever? I doubt it. About 12 years ago I spotted a dead python washed to Chaweng shore at least the same size.

[ThePlant]

The biggest ever? I doubt it. About 12 years ago I spotted a dead python washed to Chaweng shore at least the same size.

Headline: Biggest python in a decade' caught in Phuket

First line: thought to be the largest found in Phuket for 10 years

Has no one read through this before replying?

Edited December 18, 2014 by ThePlant

[gemguy]

How about a 30 foot long Python from Burma......said to be a Reticulated Python

I measured the skin myself......when dry it was 29 feet , 9 and 5 /8 inches long.

After being killed the wet measurement was slight over 30 feet long.

Believe it or not, I measured that python skin.

There is no way you could escape from a snake that large if it was hungry and wanted to make a meal out of you.

Cheers

[ThePlant]

There is no way you could escape from a snake that large if it was hungry and wanted to make a meal out of you.

Nonsense. Even a child could rip it to shreds as it tried to swallow it.

[jamiesilver]

Woke up one Bangkok morning to find this besides the breakfast table, and no more cat!

Edited December 18, 2014 by jamiesilver

[borisloosebrain]

Holy crap ! That's the fully Monty !!

[Travel Dude]

The biggest ever? I doubt it. About 12 years ago I spotted a dead python washed to Chaweng shore at least the same size.

You also don't seem to read before commenting. The article said the biggest caught in Phuket during the past 10 years.

Apparently this snake makes for a couple of keyboard <removed> ..

[Squeegee]

i must say this is a magnificent looking snake

And a cool Thailand story for the news section.

[gemguy]

There is no way you could escape from a snake that large if it was hungry and wanted to make a meal out of you.

Nonsense. Even a child could rip it to shreds as it tried to swallow it.

Your joking of course.....or you are ignorant.

A 30 foot long Python would subdue you and swallow you whole with out hardly any effort.

If you do not believe that, then simply look up some of the videos of much smaller constrictors eating relatively large 4 legged animals and see just how big the prey is compared to the snake...while the snake squeezes the life out of the animal until unconscious or dead and then begins to swallow the victim.

It is amazing how large of an animal the snake can consume.

A child would be easy while a full grown adult is nothing at all for a Python 30 feet long.

In the News Paper, there was a case back in 1989 or 1990, down in Malaysia where 2 rubber tree plantation workers were set to go out and do their daily routine while 1 worker told the other worker he had to use the wash room first and told the co worker he would meet his friend out there.

Between approximately 10 to 15 minutes later the worker walked to the agreed upon area to witness his co worker being swallowed whole, head first, by a python that was only about 14 feet long.

The Python was just starting to swallow the unconscious worker while the other worker started to kick the python and found branches and sticks and used them to hit the python and jab the python that finally let loose of the victim and backed off.

The victim regained consciousness and lived while having lots of little teeth marks on his head and the top part of the his neck while the snake had been drawing in the body of the unconscious victim.

The victim said the python had been up above, in the braches of the tree, and when he came to collect the tin cup that holds the rubber the snake dropped on top of him and faster than he could have imagined the snake was wrapped around him and constricting him until unconscious.

The snake would have been about the same size as the one seen in the photos, seen in the OP

You have very little chance of escaping a hungry, aggressive snake that is as big as the one seen in the photo and no chance of escaping a 30 foot Python if it is hungry and wants to make a meal out of you.

If you doubt it then you are mistaken.

Cheers

[sugarcane24]

Id say its taken care of a few street dogs.

This 15 year-old, 5.8m, 200 kg python who lived in a temple compound in Korat, also in Thailand, ate an estimated 20 temple dogs and an unknown number of cats before it was caught and donated to a zoo!

[ThePlant]

There is no way you could escape from a snake that large if it was hungry and wanted to make a meal out of you.

Nonsense. Even a child could rip it to shreds as it tried to swallow it.

Your joking of course.....or you are ignorant.

A 30 foot long Python would subdue you and swallow you whole with out hardly any effort.

If you do not believe that, then simply look up some of the videos of much smaller constrictors eating relatively large 4 legged animals and see just how big the prey is compared to the snake...while the snake squeezes the life out of the animal until unconscious or dead and then begins to swallow the victim.

It is amazing how large of an animal the snake can consume.

A child would be easy while a full grown adult is nothing at all for a Python 30 feet long.

In the News Paper, there was a case back in 1989 or 1990, down in Malaysia where 2 rubber tree plantation workers were set to go out and do their daily routine while 1 worker told the other worker he had to use the wash room first and told the co worker he would meet his friend out there.

Between approximately 10 to 15 minutes later the worker walked to the agreed upon area to witness his co worker being swallowed whole, head first, by a python that was only about 14 feet long.

The Python was just starting to swallow the unconscious worker while the other worker started to kick the python and found branches and sticks and used them to hit the python and jab the python that finally let loose of the victim and backed off.

The victim regained consciousness and lived while having lots of little teeth marks on his head and the top part of the his neck while the snake had been drawing in the body of the unconscious victim.

The victim said the python had been up above, in the braches of the tree, and when he came to collect the tin cup that holds the rubber the snake dropped on top of him and faster than he could have imagined the snake was wrapped around him and constricting him until unconscious.

The snake would have been about the same size as the one seen in the photos, seen in the OP

You have very little chance of escaping a hungry, aggressive snake that is as big as the one seen in the photo and no chance of escaping a 30 foot Python if it is hungry and wants to make a meal out of you.

If you doubt it then you are mistaken.

Cheers

Pray inform me as to why there has never been a verified incident of a constrictor consuming a human, hungry or not. Ever.

Even the incident in Malaysia you cite (though I believe it was actually Kerala, India) has been disproven over and over.

You clearly know little of snakes so please refrain from posting old wives tales and drivel from the pages of National Enquirer as fact. Snakes have enough bad press without foolish nonsense being posted online.

A human being constricted or attacked by a Python (for example) could inflict injuries enough on the snake to make it give it up as a bad job if not kill it outright. A snake's skin is rather fragile and can be easily punctured.

[Jip99]

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[Rumble]

What ever happened to the Black / Green mamba snakes lost during the floods?

[mercman24]

sure i read last year that a python escaped from a house/shop ? and killed a small child in the USA

[gemguy]

sure i read last year that a python escaped from a house/shop ? and killed a small child in the USA

Tell that to the other member known as : The Plant...who seems to think it has never happened while he believes such occurrences are impossible....

Cheers