A feisty four-metre (13-foot) king cobra was pulled from a sewer in southern Thailand in an hour-long operation, a rescue foundation said Tuesday, describing the reptile as one of the largest they had ever captured.

Footage of the daring capture showed a man chasing the cobra — the world’s longest venomous snake — into a dark and cramped drainage pipe.

The cobra splashed around in water and tried to slither back into the pipe, but was pulled out by the tail after multiple attempts.

A security guard on the housing estate where it was found first alerted the rescue group on Sunday
Seven rescue workers, including me, went there,” said Kritkamon Kanghae, 26, adding that the estate was built on a plot that was once jungle.

Kritkamon said the snake was more than four metres long, weighed 15 kilos (33 pounds), and was the third-largest they had found.
It was later released into the wild.

Thailand is teeming with reptiles, and several species of cobra are native to the southeast Asian country.

References to the deadly snake fill folklore.

The main international airport was built on an area that used to be called “Cobra’s Swamp”.

Snakes have increasingly become a headache for residents in the Thai capital, where the fire department is sent out to respond to calls from alarmed residents

Authorities are reluctant to get rid of the reptiles because they help to control a rat population that could otherwise threaten crops and food stocks.

King cobras, however, mainly feed on other snakes — particularly the rat snake.

(AFP)

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/four-metre-king-cobra-wrestled-from-sewer-in-thailand-12001586

Me: snake you get luck say no be for naija Dem take catch you!
Snake: why you talk so?
Me: ask lala

LOOK AT THIS PIC MEN!

MONSTER!

LOOKING AT IT GIVES ME THE CREEPS!

YOU SEE SNAKES, ROACHES AND HUMANS ARE DEFINITELY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER CREATURES!

THEY ARE MORE CUNNING, SMART AND MORE INTELLIGENT THAT OTHER SPECIES!

TAKE SNAKES FOR INSTANCE - NO LEGS, NO HANDS AND YET CAN CLIMB VERTICAL WALL, CAN FLY AND CAN ACCESS PLACES WHERE YOU WILL NEVER EXPECT THEM TO BE - SAME WITH ROACHES AND HUMANS!

IN FACT I SUSPECT THEY ARE ALIENS FROM DIFFERENT PLANET!

LALA WHERE ARE YOU?

@ third picture that looks like the snake taking selfie.if na naija them go don comot the head or rather head smashed..
thank God they allowed lala to take selfie..its beautiful too.

Hmm

Oku ori ire

What the....? FUNKE!!!!

My hatred for snake ehn.

See im smiling face

Ok

They will still release it.
The snake lucky say no be Naija, pepper soup pics would have followed the capturing.

Lucky snake. This one Na foreigner. Ask lala wetin for happen to ur poor soul in nija....

Lala food don set

Oga lala!!
Where are you..

Thailand is a perfect destination for tourist A tourist country...

I must have se at the beach in Phuket Thailand before i die...

Aso they offer one of the best meals after Italian...

Thailand....

Our brothers full there dealing memthaphetamine...our johnny walkers...Isrealites...You will never walk alone.

Humn! This one venum go be die.Anyway Lala has responded.

It's these kinds of posts that Lalasticlala respond to.
mtcheew

monster snake

Omoh

Very risky thing to do, those people standing nearby get mind sha. Kudos to the team

Wrestled abi rescued.

E be like say op and the mod no get front teeth again...

I wonder how people live with this creatures

Op, please add "graphic pictures" to the story . It makes my hair rise

4ft long lala.stic

seunmohmoh:
My hatred for snake ehn.

My own ehn

*Rescued

La la la

Sensible people preserving their wildlife