Sunday, March 11, 2012


Traffic jamed as long parking at Sukhumvit Rd.
An enormous crocodile creeps from sanseab canal and causes a terrible traffic


By Thippwan Choochauy
Staff report











Bangkok-traffic on Asoke intersection was backed up for nearly 10 kilometers early Friday when crocodile, a 10 meters and 3,000 kilos, creeps from sanseab canal to sleep in the middle of Asoke intersection.

            Somchai who is peddler told police that he saw the crocodile crept pass GMM grammy building to go forward to Asoke intersection.

            “While I was selling a fried beaten egg, I was hearing many people scream and try to escape something. Spmchai said with exciting. “I thought : Oh, what is happen to me, this event like movie scene that people try to escape dinosaur.

            Crocodile was “enormous and terrible” when he passes me. And I also try run quickly as can as possible.

            There were no one got danger from he, Police said. After about 2 hours of chasing the crocodile by people who is expert in crocodile training with the help police, expert began mulling over his options, which include having a veterinarian tranquilize the crocodile.

            About 11 a.m., a group of expert from Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm arrived and decided to use a rope to wrap crocodile’s mouth and legs, and then use a front-end loader to pick up the crocodile and load him back into the truck. Finally, crododile was brought to Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm for taking care with expert and suitable place for crocodile.

            “That crocodile was in no hurry to move,” said Nitipong, the trainer chief at Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm. “ I think he knew where he was being taken, he will meet other friends there, and he was in no hurry to get there.

            Even the police were sympathetic to the crocodile’s plight.

            That crocodile really is motionless a lot of commuters. “I think that this sympathetic stray has some problem or confusion in something to do like this” said Sompol- a driver who meets a terrible traffic at this situation.

            Thippawan Choochauy covers traffic and transportation issues in The Major in Bangkok and Perimeter. She can be reached at thippawan.ch@themajor.org

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