Snake cost taxpayers R240000

[Edwin]

"...two policemen from the Waterpoort police station started a fire on August 31 2000 to destroy a snake."


Link:
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[Slannesh]

Oh.... My... God....

I'm sure there's a darwin award in the future for those two.

I do believe that is the single stupidest thing I have ever actually read.

[reptiguy420]

Why on earth would anyone start a fire to destroy a snake?Also these guys were police wtf?Cant even think of anything to say besides WOW!Oh, if you mods are listenin we need a smiley that shakes his head from side to side:)

[marisa]

LMAO omg! How embarassing for that police force considering any one of us could have probably caught that snake in minutes using a hook and a bag no matter what species it was.

Marisa

[Siretsap]

Hey Edwin, where do you get all those stories? lmao you must spent quite some time surfing the net ;-)

[HeatherRose]

if you mods are listenin we need a smiley that shakes his head from side to side

I wish it was up to us which smilies we could choose from :p Until then...http://www.pitbullforum.com/images/smiles/pissed.gif

[Matt_K]

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[BoidKeeper]

Nice Matt, I like the head agaisnt the wall one.
Cheers,
Trevor

[munchy]

real good.

gotta love the po-po...

[Tim and Julie B]

What friggin morons.

[DragnDrop]

R240,000.00 South Africa Rand = $48,402.25 Canada Dollars or $41,130.40 United States Dollars .... doesn't seem quite as bad now, but still a lot of money for a stupid way of getting rid of a snake. :)
(conversion rates as of 2004.11.28 04:20:58 GMT. : XE.com's Currency Converter (http://www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml) )

[beagle]

Lol....It reminds me of a time when a farmer had a nuisence fox killing his chickens. He had finally trapped the fox alive and decided to teach it a lesson by strapping a stick of lit dynamite to it and letting it go. When he let the fox go the first thing it did was run for the nearest cover which just so happened to be under the farmers truck.

[rwg]

What I dont get is how they can print that it is the snake that's costing taxpayers this big bill, when clearly the snake didn't cause any property dammage at all. A couple of idiot humans did.

[Vengeance]

Totaly off topic bnut fun anyway, more fun emoticons.

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[King Cobra Fan]

That poor snake. They were morans.