Snakes in the Grass
Received a, somewhat, panicked call from the wife, whilst at work today...."Darling, can you come home, there's a snake in the garden!" Ah, the joys of living in Malaysia, certainly beats having to deal with a mouse in the house... and we're not talking an oversized worm here, this was the full monte, a 3 1/2 foot black cobra!
So, I dashed home, contemplating on the way, what exactly I was going to do when I got there - visions of tackling the snake, Steve Irwin style, sprang to mind, but were quickly replaced with visions of ending up in the local hospital (not advisable in a small town like Kluang).
As it turned out, I was beaten home by our friendly neighbourhood fire department (locally known as Bomba), whom the wife had apparently called, straight after calling me.... appears she had the same vision of me ending up in hospital, as I did!
Anyway, although my 'man ego' was somewhat bruised (but secretly relieved) by this lack of faith, I din't let it show and sat back to watch the experts deal with the beast.
Hah, I needn't have worried about my ego. After the 5 burly guys had 'ummed', 'ahhed' and, all but, drew straws to see who was going to tackle the thing, they promptly lost it into one of out garden drainage pipes. So, after 20 minutes of poking around with sticks and anything else they could find (including using our hosepipe to try and, literally, flush it out, they had a hurried discussion and promptly deciced to leave with the sage advice ' keep an eye out and if it comes back, try and corner it and give us another call'. Thanks guys.
Anyway, fingers crossed, as yet we've not had a repeat visit....from the snake, or the fire dept!
8 comments:
Maybe you should up the voltage on your fly zapper!
My friends in Taiwan often find snakes in their garden. Thankfully, to date, they've been harmless...BUT HUGE. The dogs are great for scaring them out of hiding!
Very nice read! Live and let live. I'm glad everything worked out. I'll eave a note for you at blogcatalog. Since I don't see a Skype or email here. All the best to you and the wife, Nia. :)
Of your last posts, this one is the most interesting… for me. Greetings, Mariana Cuentos.
Hiya!
Stumbled onto your blog while trying to figure out where to stay in Kluang for my planned trip up Gunung Berlumut. Any ideas? Sorry to ask you as if you were a tour guide.
Hi Jun, There are only really a couple of hotels in Kluang...Prime City, which will cost you around 140RM/nt and Annika, which is around 100RM. Both are in the centre of town, are clean and not too far from Gunung Belamut. Hope you enjoy ur trip and feel free to ask more questions.
This reminds me about 2 months back. One night 2 of my dogs barked anxiously and my sis went to check out what's going on. My dogs was barking at one of the corner where we have our water tap with bucket and some gardening tools. They barked even louder as warning and took a few steps backward when my sis trying remove the gardening tools.
So she used a stick to remove the tools one by one and saw the shiny black cobra snake! In a short while , the snake was killed by my dad armed with rattan stick with the help of 2 relatives, each holding a broom.
I don't know why nobody think of calling the bomba.
I recommend you to put a cat in your garden see how it works :))
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