Saturday, May 02, 2009

“We want to arrest the snake”... but how?

This is a very amazing story from Kenya.  Not only does a snake lift a man off his feet and into a tree, not only does the man escape by biting the snake, but the story ends with a jailbreak!

The police officer said they took the snake to a sanctuary in Malindi town but it escaped overnight, probably from a gap under the door in the room where it was kept.

“We are still seriously looking for the snake,” said Supt Katam. “We want to arrest the snake because any one of us could fall a victim.” full article

I do not know how a person would arrest a snake but I would like to find out.  I think you would have to handcuff the snake to itself like this:

This idea would work, but only if the snake was the same thickness as a person’s hand.  Maybe you could arrest the snake by putting it in a bag.  But then, if the snake is strong enough to pull a man into a tree, it would have to be a big bag.