Youth catches giant anaconda in neighbour's yard

Youth catches giant anaconda in neighbour’s yard

Feb 25, 2010 News

Seventeen-year-old Richard Mohan, of 661 Toucan Drive, South Ruimveldt Gardens, after being brave enough to ensnare a gigantic anaconda that could have possibly made a meal of him is now calling a sale for the imposing reptile.

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Mohan, who snared the reptile in a neighbour’s yard, along with friends in the community, is planning to begin a hunt for others believed to be living in the alleyway aback of his home if they can find the market for the reptiles.
Yesterday about 5:45 hrs residents in Toucan Drive awakened to the sounds of dogs barking frantically in the area. Upon looking outside Mohan’s neighbour raised an alarm after she saw the large reptile in her yard and Mohan along with his father responded.
Mohan said, “Like he eat something and so he was just lying there stretched out and my father take a spear and pin he down. Then I lasso he by he head and tie he up.”
Yesterday, just before noon several youths in the environs gathered as they decided on what to do with the reptile.
“We catch some in the areas before and some were even bigger than this one but we didn’t keep them nor sell them. We just skinned them but now we ain’t want to kill this one. They plenty in this area so I looking for a sale,” the young man told this publication.
Other residents said that the area is bordered by cane fields in the south and several un-serviced canals and alleyways. It is prone to reptiles. Shona Hinds, who also lives in the area, said that she is often greeted by caimans on her bridge when she gets home and that she often has to use her neighbours’ fence to get in her yard. “Buddy is like if them things does got lime in here” she jokingly added.
On the subject of snakes Mohan related, too, that he watched three weeks ago as a much larger anaconda crushed and swallowed a dog in the alleyway. (Mondale Smith)