A boy is recovering today after being bitten by a Brown Snake at home near Sydney Australia. The boy was helping his father move some stuff when he disturbed the snake and was promptly bitten, Doctors say he is lucky that he was not invenomated by the bite.
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Brown toilet snake
Constable Jarrod Williams got the shock of his life when he lifted the toilet seat at the remote Lajamanu station and found a large King Brown Snake in the toilet. He of course screamed for help and returned with a colleague wielding a shovel and a torch “What? a torch? really?” but by the time the seat came back up the snake was nowhere to be found. It is believed the snake got in through a hole in the wall and likely made a hasty retreat via the same hole. Const Williams isn’t playing any games though. According to him because of the remote location of the station if you were to get bitten you would likely die.
Black Hastings market
Apparently the fine of $220,000 and up to 2 years in jail is not enough to detour people from traveling to Hastings and attempting to smuggle the native snakes out for sale on the black market. Port Macquarie was known for its Stephens Banded Snakes and Intergrade Pythons. Apparently the Intergrade Pythons from that area have a distinct sought after coloration that is hard to reproduce in captivity.
One 50yo man was recently caught after being bitten by one of the Banded snakes and seeking emergency treatment but according to National Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Andrew Marshall the man was not charged because he did not admit to his intentions to collect and sell the snake on the black market.
Eatery Owner Shocked To Find Lizard In Sauce
ALOR SETAR, Jan 7 (Bernama) — An eatery owner in Langgar town, near here, was shocked to see what she claimed was a dead house lizard in a bottle of sauce which was to be used for cooking on Wednesday.
Nor Hashima Mohd Noor, 29, said the dead lizard was noticed by her worker, Nor Hayati Abu Hassan, 25, who wanted to use the sauce to cook Mee Bandung for a customer.
“When my worker was pouring out the sauce which I had just bought from a nearby sundry shop into a bowl, she saw something whitish with a tail but did not think it was a house lizard.
“But when my friend and I looked at it closely, we were shocked to find that it was a dead lizard,” said Nor Hashima, adding that she tried to contact the manufacturer’s telephone number printed on the label but failed.
She said she also reported the discovery to the Kedah Consumers Association and was now awaiting the result of its investigation.
Nor Hashima said she had been operating her eatery for almost 10 years now and had been using the sauce, but this was the first time that she made such a discovery.
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=554832
Magic Pythons, till death do they part
Two Pythons in Cambodia are newlyweds today after a 2 hour ceremony to wed them by villagers. According to their beliefs, marrying the Pythons will bring good luck to their village
“We married these pythons to ask for health and prosperity in our village,” said 41-year-old Neth Vy, owner of female python named Chamrouen.
“We were told (by fortunetellers) that the two pythons are husband and wife and they need to live together, and if we don’t marry them we will meet bad luck,” said Neth Vy, who found the then-tiny python while fishing 16 years ago.
He has said that they have had good luck since making the Python part of their family, the male Python was recently caught by a woman who says she sees him as her son.
Stop killing the crocs, plead wildlife activists
KUCHING: Villagers have vowed to continue their hunt for a crocodile that killed and devoured a man here, even if they have to kill “each and every last one” in the Batang Samarahan River.
Their pledge, however, has earned them the wrath of environmentalists and wildlife groups.
Malaysian Nature Society chairman Asso Prof Maketab Mohamed said although human life was sacred, it did not mean that it was all right to kill crocodiles “as if their lives were worthless”.
The villagers have so far caught and disembowelled three crocodiles since Sidi Samad, 66, was seen eaten alive on Dec 18.
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/3/nation/7725261&sec=nation
Snakes pose added danger to rescue effort in Queensland’s flooded areas
Authorities fear residents returning to previously flooded houses will face a plague of deadly reptiles.
The snakebite danger was just one of the immediate and challenging health issues facing Queensland Health, which is coping with everything from contaminated water and sewage overflows to having to evacuate more than a dozen pregnant women and establish emergency clinics for stranded residents.
State medical director for retrieval services Mark Elcock, who is co-ordinating helicopters and planes to relay patients from flood zones to major hospitals,said the situation posed a significant logistical challenge.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/snakes-pose-added-danger-to-rescue-effort-in-flooded-areas/story-e6frg6nf-1225980648743