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a few critters from yesterday...

lol... https://www.facebook.com/WeReallyLovePattaya

I can think of better ways to go... . . . Suicide by snake: Animal smuggler kills himself by getting one of his cobras to bite him as he is arrested in South Africa https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13287111/Animal-smuggler-suicide-getting-one-cobras-bite-him.html A security guard committed suicide by snake by goading his own deadly serpents into delivering fatal bites after he was arrested by police in South Africa. Marius Joubert, 28, died in agony after his illegally-smuggled Indochinese Spitting Cobra and a second snake pumped lethal venom into his hand and wrist after he stuck his hand in their tanks. The snake dealer was fully aware that - as his cobra had been smuggled into South Africa from Thailand 5,500 miles away - that there was no anti-venom to save his life. The armed security officer realised that police were about to uncover his illegal racket of importing illegal animals that could see him serve 25 years behind bars. So rather than face a long spell in a hell-hole jail he handed himself a death sentence, even while police were present in his home... ... 'He was up to his eyes in it for smuggling in exotic creatures without permit and keeping them in cruel conditions and he was looking at multiple sentences of 25 years each. 'It would seem he wanted to take another route out and his spitting cobra provided that. There is no blame on the police who could not have suspected what he would do. 'The officer called the hospital later to check on him and was told he was dead' he said. The Bloemfontein Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals were called in and found 70 illegally kept animals, most of them snakes, and called in snake removal experts. Stephanus Fourie and David Hayter removed 62 snakes including a variety of exotic and local cobras, mambas, anacondas, pythons, rattlesnakes, puffadders and vipers. As well as several deadly rinkhals snakes there were also exotic hedgehogs and ferrets, a Nile crocodile, African bullfrogs, Iguanas, Nile and Rock monitors and 3 sugar gliders. They also carefully removed the two exotic Indochinese Spitting Cobras and said the one which bit Joubert was a fully grown adult nearly 5 feet long and highly dangerous... . .

Red-tailed Hawk today...

Speaking of Alaska... Shrinking Arctic ice redraws the map for internet cable connections A new 14,500-km subsea cable in the Arctic could reroute data traffic away from vulnerable choke points. https://www.politico.eu/article/shrinking-arctic-ice-redraws-map-internet-cable-connections-climate-change/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Facebook . . .

Pattaya rescuers were called in early Sunday morning to assist a foreign man who was critically injured by a spike on the fence at the gate of his home and had a deep wound in his stomach. It happened in Chokchai Garden Home Village 2 in Nong Prue Subdistrict, Bang Lamung District, Chonburi Province. Before transporting Michael, a 65-year-old British man, to the hospital, rescuers provided first aid. The reason was that he was so drunk that he failed to use the key to unlock the door. Subsequently, he attempted to climb the fence to gain entry into the house, but his ascent proved unsuccessful, resulting in severe injuries. https://www.facebook.com/KhaosodEnglish . . .