5 meter Python caught in Sattahip
Patcharapol Panrak
A hungry python that crawled into a Navy sentry box in the hopes of eating a dog named Mac was captured and released into the wild.
Rotchana Thammasathan Foundation’s radio control center in Sattahip received a call for help at 6 p.m. on December 19 from 21-year-old Navy officer Bunyuoen Kamnung at the Company 3 security guard office, Sattahip Naval Base, to say that a 5-meter python had slithered into the Ban Thung Prong sentry box where it intended to consume Mac, a Bang Kaew breed of dog renowned for its intelligence.
Rescue officers arriving at the scene found Bunyuoen and fellow officer Channarong Panmata trying to pull the 100-kg python out of the sentry box, aided by Mac, indignant at being regarded as a snack, who was barking furiously at the snake.
The rescue workers had brought a ring chord which they dropped around the neck of the python and then hauled the hissing serpent into a gunny bag. They then took the bag to the top of Laem Poo Chao hill, near the Prince Chumporn Shrine, an uninhabited python-haunted area, and released the captive snake.
Bunyuoen said that during the previous night, when he was on duty at the guard box, he had seen a python slithering over towards Mac, who was asleep. He called a friend to help him, but the snake escaped into nearby bushes. Today it had crawled back and had a second crack at eating Mac.
Clearly the python was hungry and had a predilection for small dogs, but in this case a Mac meal was to evade him and it is only to be hoped that he finds another meal to go at his new hilltop home.
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