Snakes on a Plain: Bangkok's Python Problem

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Snakes on a Plain: Bangkok's Python Problem
Steve Herman

BANGKOK — Bangkok has a python problem.

The Thai capital is reminded of that whenever a particularly sensational snake sighting makes headlines, such as when a python was videotaped regurgitating a grown dog. Or the time a couple of years ago a woman stepping out of her shower was bitten by a python, emerging from the toilet, which then attempted to drag her down the drain.

In all, thousands of times every year the 199 hotline of the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department rings with an urgent request to dispatch a snake wrangler.

Over the past dozen years on the job, fireman Pinyo Pookpinyo has been responsible for clearing the city of more than 10,000 snakes.

Full story: http://www.voanews.com/content/snakes-on-a-plain-bangkok-python-problem/3214124.html

-- Voice of America 2016-03-01

[Colabamumbai]

I lived in India for many years. When a village had a problem with snakes, the snake doctor would come and sprinkle rice on the land. Maybe we need more rice on the streets of Bangkok.

[cornishcarlos]

12 years as a fireman and he captured 10,000 snakes !

That's 70 a month on average, did he have any time to fight fires

[BKKdreaming]

Florida is also having a big snake problem in the Everglades .

most of the small animals and birds are gone

they even have a contest to catch them but only got 100 !

pythonchallenge.org

[IAMHERE]

Florida is also having a big snake problem in the Everglades .

most of the small animals and birds are gone

they even have a contest to catch them but only got 100 !

pythonchallenge.org

Burmese Pythons !

[thecyclist]

I once biked over one in the dark corner of Benjakitti park.