Step Up And Address The Python

It would seem that the Singapore police department has decided to promote a new sport. This one has all the fun of golf coupled with the danger of python wrestling. We'll just call it python putt-putt!

A resident had been walking two dogs on Wednesday evening when the slippery serpent struck, coiling itself around Bella, a 7-year-old Jack Russell, the Straits Times reported on Sunday.

Police soon arrived but lacked appropriate tools to battle snakes. Using a golf club, they tried for 20 minutes to loosen the python's embrace before it abandoned Bella's body and gave them the slip.

"My head is filled with the image of the snake around my yelping dog and I can't sleep," the paper quoted Bella's owner, Glenda Liu, as saying.

Liu and her partner were so distraught they were moving out of the condo for good on Sunday. They said they feared the snake could also attack children.

One question: where'd they get the golf club? Do they keep those right in the police cars? Or do they use carts? Ok, one other question: why didn't they hit the snake with the club? All they had to do was follow the advice here and they could have been on their way to the professional python putt-putt championships! (We fully expect royalties when someone actually starts one of these. We have no doubt someone will try it.) Alternately, they could have just used the club to putt the python down.