Finns Perfect Anaconda Control Foam
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard have documented many methods used to attempt to control raging reptiles. From the ever popular kicking and punching of poppy-picking pythons, the handy switchblade control method, The useful "Don't taze me, bro" method and, of course, the legendary python putter. However, all those methods pale in comparison to the newest control technique. Fearless Firefighters in Finland use foam to freeze feisty anacondas. Technology marches on!
The 3.3-metre (10-and-a-half-foot) long reptile, which was apparently hungry after fasting for four months, attacked its owner as he tried to remove it from its terrarium to move to a new apartment.
The anaconda also attacked a veterinarian who tried to inject it with a sedative.
The firefighters cooled the snake's temper by emptying the contents of a fire extinguisher into its terrarium. Ten minutes later, the placated snake was easily lifted into a bag and moved to its new home.
They had a snake sack at hand? Boy, are those guys prepared or what? Reptile relaxing foam, boa bags - I wonder what else they carry on their trucks. Well, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that they're ready for anything. After all, Finland has Klingons in Parliament.
By wheels, Friday, 21 December , 2007 @ 10:37 am
In one sense, it’s a shame it wasn’t a poisonous snake. Then your link could have been “Fearless Finnish Firefighters fire foam, freezing feisty fer-de-lance.”
I do wonder what the ingredients of reptile relaxing foam are, and why they happened to have some to hand. Do they have to deal with this sort of thing often enough to justify having special equipment? At least the firefighters didn’t have to administer a snake sedative suppository. That could have gotten messy.
By BadBob, Friday, 21 December , 2007 @ 11:31 am
Good headline! Reptiles are cold blooded. Get them cold and they become dormant. Using a CO2 extinguisher would lower the terrarium temperature and fit that bill rather nicely. Very clever move on the firefighter’s part!
By NortonPete, Friday, 21 December , 2007 @ 11:45 am
Using a CO2 extinguisher,… that snake just cost us half a glacier.
I can now see a ship’s mast on the horizon and I was 50 miles inland.