Slippery serpent scares Singapore suburbanites!

Dashken · 20th Nov 2006, 02:56 PM

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Police wielding a golf club failed to save Bella the terrier from the crushing grip of a 3.5-metre python, which killed the pooch in an upmarket Singapore apartment complex and then slithered away.

A resident had been walking two dogs on Wednesday evening when the slippery serpent struck, coiling itself around Bella, a 7-year-old Jack Russell, the Straits Times reported on Sunday.

Police soon arrived but lacked appropriate tools to battle snakes. Using a golf club, they tried for 20 minutes to loosen the python's embrace before it abandoned Bella's body and gave them the slip.

"My head is filled with the image of the snake around my yelping dog and I can't sleep," the paper quoted Bella's owner, Glenda Liu, as saying.

Liu and her partner were so distraught they were moving out of the condo for good on Sunday. They said they feared the snake could also attack children.

Pest control teams had failed to locate the serpent, the paper said.

Tropical Singapore, widely referred to as the "Garden City", often has problems with snakes.

Pythons in the city and neighbouring Malaysia can grow to more than 7 metres (23 feet) and feed on small creatures, such as birds or rats.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061119/...ngapore_python

Scary shyt...

PsYkHoTiK · 20th Nov 2006, 03:10 PM

Was the cop on the way to tee off?

Chai · 20th Nov 2006, 03:53 PM

Jack Russell...

strawroot · 20th Nov 2006, 07:35 PM

tht's so rare to hear such things as "failure to wat wat wat" in singapore.

poor doggy

Papercut · 20th Nov 2006, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by PsYkHoTiK

Was the cop on the way to tee off?

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Tropical Singapore, widely referred to as the "Garden City", often has problems with snakes.

Rubbish. The very fact that police lacked adequate equipment shows that this kind of thing doesn't happen very often.

Adrian Wong · 27th Nov 2006, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Papercut

Rubbish. The very fact that police lacked adequate equipment shows that this kind of thing doesn't happen very often.

Haha... That author must have made up that part... about Singapore's problems with snakes.

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