Guns, not charm, expel snakes from police hub
Power hoses, AK-47 rifles used on 400 cobras, vipers in Sierra Leone station
FREETOWN - Power hoses and AK-47 assault rifles have succeeded where Sierra Leone's snake-charmers failed by removing 400 cobras and vipers that overran a police station.
Authorities in the southern district of Bo called in police, army and fire fighters after the snakes scared away police officers and residents reporting crimes.
"We have forced water into the building and some of the snakes trying to escape were shot by our men carrying AK-47s," said Brima Kontu, head of the police station in Gerihun.
About 250 of the estimated 400 snakes who had made the station their home have been killed.
"Hopefully the combined force will be able to free the house from the snakes by next Tuesday," Kontu told Reuters.
Sierra Leone is slowly recovering from the effects of the 1991-2002 civil war and villagers frequently have run-ins with wild animals in areas of the country that were deserted during the years of fighting.
Sounds like fun! :jester:
Sounds like they need an army of mongoose.
Wouldn't that be mongeeses? :biggrin:
What is the plural of the mouse you use with your computer? Everyone know it is Meeses.
Well, if I was concerned about efficiency, sure I would use a shotgun. But come on, you're gonna let me go into a police station and shoot an AK (presumably a fully automatic one) at 400 moving targets? You wouldn't even have to pay me for that day!:biggrin:
Personally, I have a very rational fear of snakes... I'd use an AK 47, an M-1, a 9mm, hammer, 2x4 or whatever else is handy... that bugger is gonna die...But it also seems to me like over kill. Granted some people have an irrational fear of snakes.
I'm thinking a can of gas and a match would work the best!
Probably wasn't very structurally sound to begin with.I just thought about it that when they get through with the snakes by flushing them out with water and them using them for target practice with the AK-47's I have serious doubts that the police station will be structurally sound enough to use. :no:
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