THE STAR (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) 20 January 07 Python-in-drain scare for housewife (Low Boon Tat)
Photo at URL below: Visitor from the wild: Fire and Rescue personnel holding the dead python found inside a drain in Jalan 3, Taman Sentosa, Seremban.
A housewife in Seremban had a terrible shock recently when she came across a huge python in the drain of her home.
Chee Yow Mooi, 52, from Jalan 3, Taman Sentosa, said she had come out of her house at about 8am and happened to look into the drain when she saw the reptile.
“I was shocked and scared. I called my neighbours to help me,” she said when met at her home.
Her neighbours, she added, then telephoned state councillor Chow Wai Fatt who alerted the Fire and Rescue Department.
She believed the 3.3m-long python had swallowed three puppies.
“You can tell from the bumps on its body,” she said. adding that a stray dog had given birth to six pupppies at a vacant lot nearby.
“I went to check on the puppies and found three missing,” she added.
“One puppy had been taken by my neighbour. And there were only two left that morning.”
Chee said this was not the first time that a snake was found in the neighbourhood, which had been “visited” by other animals such as monkeys.
“This is the second biggest snake to have been found here. One of my neighbours caught a bigger one a few months ago. I think it is because there is a jungle nearby,” she said.
A fire truck from the Rahang fire station arrived about two hours later to pick up the python but it was already dead by then.
The station’s operations officer Razali Ahmad said the python could have died due to chemicals in the drain.
Python-in-drain scare for housewife