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Who civilized and who is de snake?
By Michael Benjamin
All is mine! The snake ‘owner’ being pursued by two of the many claimants to the prized catch.
Around 14:00hrs yesterday, several young men came upon a giant anaconda nestling in the grass in the vicinity of Delph Avenue, Campbellville.
Recognising that there was a chance to make some extra money the lads joined forces and captured the giant reptile. With smirks on their faces, they decided to search for a buyer and share the proceeds equally.
But life is never that simple! Suddenly, one of the captors decided that he was the owner of the snake. The problem, though, was that he lacked the expertise to charm the reptile. He did manage to somehow, thrust his catch inside a salt bag. Securing the mouth of the sack with a piece of twine, he threw it over his shoulder and set off in search of a buyer while his ‘friends,’ who had initially assisted in catching the reptile, fumed at his indiscretions.
Kaieteur News attempted to capture a picture of the snake but the man, by now suspicious of anyone attempting to go anywhere near ‘his’ snake, ranted and raved. All this time, his ‘friends’ who had assisted in capturing the reptile walked behind him attempting to persuade him to change his mind and give them a cut of the eventual profit. He remained adamant that the snake, and any cash derived from its sale, was his.
Kaieteur News, while attempting to snap a shot of the snake, came in for a share of his vitriol. One of his ‘friends’ attempted to explain his stance. “He frighten the snake so he ent gon tek it out de bag!”
In the end, all that we could get from the situation was a picture of the man trudging through the streets of Cambellville, with his disgruntled ‘friends’ in tow.
In the meantime his ‘friends,’ with no chance of collecting from the sale of the anaconda, were left contemplating on the question asked by the Tradewinds, “Who civilized and who is de snake?”
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