Thailand Newbies Tips

**dirtydog** · 01-01-2009, 09:32 PM

I think we should have an advice thread for newbies to Thailand, maybe a new theme each week could be a good idea, so onto the first

Killing the local wildlife;

Post your pics and tell us the best way to kill the beasts

Here's my first beast and the question is what is the best way to kill these nasty buggers?

**ChiangMai noon** · 01-01-2009, 09:34 PM

stamp on it.

**dirtydog** · 01-01-2009, 09:36 PM

What if you have flip flops on though?

**Loy Toy** · 01-01-2009, 09:38 PM

Barbeque it and sell it on any street corner!

**Mid** · 01-01-2009, 09:38 PM

job for she who must be obeyed ...................

**baldrick** · 01-01-2009, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Here's my first beast and the question is what is the best way to kill these nasty buggers?

Kookaburra

or maybe

**jandajoy** · 01-01-2009, 09:39 PM

Sell it live, worth more.

**jandajoy** · 01-01-2009, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by Mid

job for she who must be obeyed ...................

Amen to that

Applies to just about everything in the wild world of flora and fauna in LOS.

**good2bhappy** · 01-01-2009, 09:42 PM

nasty critter

**The Fresh Prince** · 01-01-2009, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

stamp on it.

If you stamp on them they can curl up around your foot and give you a painful sting.

I always just cut them in half with a spade and then chuck the corpse over the wall.

**dirtydog** · 01-01-2009, 11:08 PM

^Foking nice neighbour you would make......

**The Fresh Prince** · 01-01-2009, 11:13 PM

The bit of land next to my house doesn't have a house on it. I wouldn't chuck it on the other side where my neighbour lives.

**dirtydog** · 01-01-2009, 11:20 PM

Probably my land you bstard

OK, so we have been bitten to death by the killer centerpede and haven't come up with a great way to kill them buggers, lets move onto snakes, not sure whose snake this is or whether it is a killer beasty, but if its in your house it needs to be deaded.

Now normally the best way to deaded a beasty snake is with something long and sharp, shovel, machette that sort of thing, but, if your as hard as fok then just chop its poxy head off with your pen knife, yep, thats what a mate of mine done, he is a crazy as fok German guy and has no fear of anything, we was at a fishing park when a load of Thais started screaming, turns out there was a 1 meter long poisonous snake wandering around, so he chopped its head off with his pocket knife, a braver man than me.

**The Fresh Prince** · 01-01-2009, 11:27 PM

I also get a lot of these in the garden.

These are a problem because if one of the dogs tries to play with it then they can get poisoned from the toads back. One time I came home and the dogs head had swelled up to almost double its normal size from licking it. A few weeks later I came home and the dogs leg was swollen from stepping on it. Its quite funny.

My method for getting rid of them is to cut the bottom off a 1.5 litre water bottle, scooping the toad up inside and then launch over the wall onto DD's bit of wasteland next door.

Its quite over groan so I reckon the get a soft landing.

**melvbot** · 01-01-2009, 11:45 PM

^ 8 or 9 Iron if youve got a fence, 3 wood if you havent.

**Spin** · 01-01-2009, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

lets move onto snakes

Off with their heads! (this is what happens to any snake unlucky enough to find itself in Riggers garden)

**Thetyim** · 02-01-2009, 12:03 AM

^
Is that a welsh snake ?

**Spin** · 02-01-2009, 12:12 AM

^noooo

It wasnt as short as that about three minutes before the photo was taken.

**kingwilly** · 02-01-2009, 03:47 AM

Originally Posted by Thetyim

^ Is that a welsh snake ?

its good that the dwarf dont play the red/green game anymore.!

**Jet Gorgon** · 02-01-2009, 06:53 AM

55555 Good laughs, Gentlemen. Thank you.
Centipedes -- the only thing I killed. Keep your eye on the racer while you grab for a broom, sweep it toward where you have a stick or something handy and mash it.

Originally Posted by dirtydog

snakes

Never found the want or need to kill a snake. Dogs chased away vipers, pythons, cobras. Snakes are good for vermin. Trundled through the jungle in flip flops daily to take the dogs to the river. Never bothered by any slithery things. Just make lots of noise. If one gets in your bathroom, throw a towel over it, get a stick and push it in a bag. Release in the jungle or near a surly neighbour.

Scorpions. Never killed them either. Just kicked them out of the way. Oh, did kill one near our place coz kids were there.

**November Rain** · 02-01-2009, 07:04 AM

You horrible, mean people!

I don't kill snakes or toads (we've had a few doggy swollen faces too, FP!). We actually had a dog temporarily (about 1 week) blinded from either snake or millipede venom in her eyes. Never found the critter responsible, so don't know what it was.

Baygon works on the millipede things, doesn't it?

**Jet Gorgon** · 02-01-2009, 07:11 AM

^ Baygon? Millipedes? They just coil up and you sweep em away, no? Centipedes -- just shoot 'em, NR.

**benbaaa** · 02-01-2009, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Scorpions. Never killed them either.

In the Great Flood of Chiang Mai, 2005, as the waters were gathering around my house, a whole swarm of scorpions (well, about six) started advancing from their hideaways in the garden. They were heading for the living room. My sister-in-law dispatched them with a hoe.

Which reminds me, there are some critters in Thailand which are a lot more dangerous than scorpions, centipedes and snakes.

watterinja · 02-01-2009, 10:10 AM

It's deformed... missing a second stinger.

**The Fresh Prince** · 02-01-2009, 10:47 AM

Maybe it broke off.

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