Big Python dancing outside Jurong flat

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‘It was knocking on my window pane’: Python rescued from Jurong West HDB flat​

A reticulated python had made its way up to the second floor of an HDB unit in Jurong West on Dec 8. PHOTOS: MR MUKLIS, ACRES SINGAPORE

Angelica Ang
Updated

Dec 09, 2024, 11:14 PM

SINGAPORE – Mr Muklis, a Jurong West resident, was jolted awake from his midday siesta on Dec 8 by the urgent shouts of two passers-by, who asked him to close his windows and doors immediately.

“My living room door was open, and they came up to the lift landing to tell us to close our windows as there was a snake,” said the 54-year-old sports trainer, who wanted to be known only by his first name.

Mr Muklis quickly sprang off the couch, closing the windows in his kitchen and master bedroom.

The two passers-by had witnessed a reticulated python slither up the stairs to the second floor of Block 925 Jurong West Street 92, where Mr Muklis’ three-room flat is located. The snake then found its way to a ledge outside his window and ended up on his air-conditioner compressor unit.

“My wife of course panicked, but for me, I watch a lot of National Geographic programmes, so at least I have some knowledge,” said Mr Muklis.

He then heard a knock in his master bedroom.

“It was knocking on my window pane. I think if my window was open, the snake would have gone into my room,” he said.

After ensuring that all his windows were tightly shut, Mr Muklis called the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) hotline. The Acres wildlife rescue team arrived about 20 minutes later, with a ladder in tow, he said.

“The python was at a height of about 3.5m, which made the rescue a bit tricky,” said Mr Kalaivanan Balakrishnan, co-chief executive of Acres.

An Acres staff member climbed up the ladder and removed the python.

By then, a crowd of about 50 curious onlookers had gathered around the block.

According to Mr Balakrishnan, the python will be microchipped before being released into the wild.

Mr Kamalakannan Raja, president of the Herpetological Society of Singapore, a reptile and amphibian interest group, said that despite such encounters, pythons are not to be feared.

“They are adapted to using our drain networks for movement and sometimes to obtain food. And by feeding on rats and other rodents, they offer us a natural form of pest control,” he said.

Though pythons are non-venomous, the public should maintain a safe distance if they encounter these snakes, he added.

“It is vital to remember that these are wild animals, and some pythons can grow to large sizes,” said Mr Raja.

Instead of attempting to remove the snake themselves, members of the public are encouraged to call the Acres wildlife rescue hotline on 9783-7782, or contact the National Parks Board’s Animal Response Centre on 1800-476-1600.

“Improper removal attempts may result in stressing or hurting the animal, sometimes fatally. These attempts could also result in the persons involved getting hurt as the stressed python could get defensive,” Mr Raja said.

 

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[mahjongking]

omg, so big.......i like.....knn

 

[laksaboy]

Pythons are harmless creatures and should not be a concern unless you have babies or small pets.

 

[bobby]

If any Bangala or Tiong catch it…..

 

[Balls2U]

There are also many big Bangla snakes dancing in a particular unit in Jurong East everyday.

 

[ginfreely]

There are also many big Bangla snakes dancing in a particular unit in Jurong East everyday.

K Shanmugam Sc I see the parliament news today 22 November 24 on internet bullying, Singapore government seems to restrict internet bullying to youth phenomenon when this is far from truth. Many internet bullies are not youths at school but adults or even old people like the lazy idle Cantonese bullies in a rat hole forum that take salary don’t work but spent working hours ganging up to abuse me everyday and when you fight their bullying and sexual harassment, a self admitted Cantonese man in the group shamelessly turned around to repeat lies that I want to have sex with him.

Six days ago I made a post that documented these adult bullies ganging up to bully me « Unfortunately there are many criminal bullies hiding in rat hole forum brazenly doing defamation crimes to me everyday and for years. Their profile is self claimed Cantonese or Hakka that used Cantonese vulgarities on me and one such brazen and proud Cantonese criminal with self admitted Cantonese dirty slut mother just took my life story and twist into a cheap slut whore mistress story when I am a virgin with annulled marriage. « .

Subsequent to this post, not only did the brazen Cantonese criminal bully proudly doing defamation crimes of me showed no signs of remorse but he proudly churned out mass of daily chicken and mistress threads and gang up with other Cantonese and Hakka bullies in the group to make sleazy and insulting comments of me either directly or indirectly using insinuating insults.

And everyone knows it’s Chinese culture to refer to prostitutes as chicken and this brazen Cantonese bully actually started a thread before in March 24 to explain why are prostitutes called chicken so it’s definitely not innocent but evil intentional harassment of me.

And this brazen Cantonese criminal serial liar and other bullies ganging up in the rat hole forum have the audacity to do defamation crimes and harassment crimes to me then act innocent and turned around to call me mad. They think their identity is unknown and can hide in rat hole to abuse me for years to feel good in their jealous sore loser life, such evil people should be severely punished.

Update 3 December and 10 December 24 the evil arrogant Cantonese bullies continue to do defamation crimes on me smearing and insulting me as slut prostitute and one of the Cantonese bully with latest nick @sbfuncle that spewed much Cantonese vulgarities on me previously and self admitted a thief that committed CBT in office and was jailed for buying illegal goods made defamatory baseless false accusations of me cheating money of my family members and relatives to buy condo, don’t wear bra and panties and that’s why get whistled etc defamation and character assassination of me.

Actually what happened to me is like what happened to the Malaysian influencer that committed suicide and died with people making lewd comments and more. In fact what I encountered is much worse both online and offline with these vicious Cantonese and other bullies hiding in rat hole forum and offline bullies that made whistles and knocks.

Update 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 December 24 AND EVERYDAY FOR YEARS WITH LATEST NICK @Franjipani the evil lowlife Cantonese criminal bully in the rat hole stole hundreds and thousand of hours of his salary paid time to create so many outright prostitute and chicken threads to harass me that just listing a fraction of his threads took hours and he still created more today with his Cantonese bully pride to persecute me with the evil intention to make me kee siao go commit suicide, which is what his Malaysian accomplice in the forum openly admitted too. However this crafty unremorseful Cantonese lowlife bully is whitewashing his crimes by starting ONLY chicken threads now WITHOUT sleazy comments and dare not start prostitute threads for a few days (restarted on 9 December 24) and sneakily dig out old news last year on Jurong East dirty massage joints and capitalise on other bullies latest insulting words - like superglue to seal private part - to create thread to invite his fellow Cantonese bullies to make sleazy and chicken slut comments and insults such as 福建老残鸡there clearly with the evil intention to smear and insult me chicken. Where is justice?

Update 6 December 24 another Malaysian Cantonese that has for years up slut whore mistress threads around me and was gloating of causing people slow death did the same evil dirty trick again up a thread with title promiscuous to harass me with his bully pride. And subsequently many Cantonese bullies in that rat hole forum up the thread many times using innocuous comments too.

 

[ginfreely]

There are also many big Bangla snakes dancing in a particular unit in Jurong East everyday.