Tuesday, March 08, 2016

How to catch a Burmese python--in Florida

Don't worry about bagging and how to get them out of bags, and catch them again. Just do what a Burmese Karen would do, carry a dah, cleaver or machete with you and chop its head off and leave the head in the field.

They are not poisonous, but they can strangle you.

I grew up on stories of a villager who was being strangled by a python and survived by holding his dah sharp side out--against his body, but I am not sure this will work.

Above all make sure you know how to identify a python, if you try this with a poisonous snake? --

If in doubt call an expert--my relatives in Bangkok have often called the snake catcher, who came on a motor bike and caught it for them.

I would not try it and I don't go around in swamps, but if you do be careful--

wear good shoes or boots, knock out your shoes in the morning, for they often hide in shoes.

And then there's the story, real, of the BOC-MOC Burma Oil Co foreign expert who was bitten by a snake. The Burmese official told me--"They had snake bite kits, but they had all been sold on the black market."

Welcome to the paradise place you love so much.

KMKaung
3-8-2016






Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response....