15 pythons per house - how the capital of Indonesia lives (6 photos)

If you calmly go to the toilet in a hotel in Jakarta or Bangkok, then one thing is clear - you don’t read much news. Because guess who is number one in terms of the number of men who have been bitten on their penises by pythons that suddenly emerged from the toilet?





Yes, it's Bangkok in Thailand, but Indonesia is constantly competing with it. In general, snakes in warm Asian countries are a much bigger “household problem” than spiders or rats. It’s not for nothing that the tale of Riki-tiki-Tavi takes place in India, when Nag and Nagaina thought of biting a man and taking over his house. For us it is terribly exotic, but in fact everything was painted from life.

15 pythons per home

It is surprising that snakes do not leave crowded places, shifting their habitats deeper into the forest. They thrive in sewage rivers, and most importantly, in pipes. It’s as if a highway was invented for them to travel around the capital.



I like to say it: “Hello, I am your new phobia.”

In South Jakarta, one of the daily duties of firefighters is not to put out fires or rescue cats from trees. They often call her here to get rid of pythons in your water supply.

In the most notorious case, firefighters recovered a ball of 15 pythons that had multiplied inside the plumbing system of one small house. At the same time, the longest one (the matriarch of the family) has already grown to 4 meters.

Yes, pythons will not poison you. But this doesn’t make it any easier; they don’t bite the penis like poison.





Jakarta firefighters in fireproof suits arrive to the call... and then there's the python again!

Firefighters had to break the drain pipes under the house to get everyone out. Obviously, even if you fill everything with poison, the pythons will simply die inside the pipes and clog the entire drain tightly. So they can’t think of any other way except to catch pythons alive while they are crawling.

Secret snake society and its lobby

Actually, snakes live secretly in all the hot cities of Southeast Asia, the water supply is humid and good, and over the years they adapt.



Workers found the python near the river in the park. Well... perhaps I should eat it?

But such cases are most often written about in the foreign press and tabloids. Because a snake crawling out of a toilet is the worst advertisement for the tourism industry, and many countries receive almost a third of their income from it.

With the advent of Instagram, YouTube and camera phones, it has become increasingly difficult for every person to “hide the awl in his bag.” And the government, what a horror, had to take over the work of garbage collection services.



I don’t understand why they are decreasing! Because they're trash pythons, they don't taste good?

Because snakes are multiplying due to the fact that there are many mice and rats in the city. And there are a lot of them, because heaps of garbage take weeks to be removed from some area, and a whole family of mice manages to pop up there. The food supply for snakes is luxurious, and they, following the mice, reproduce uncontrollably.

The authorities had to very harshly revise the garbage disposal policy, but this will have its effect only a few snake-mouse generations later. And who knows how many of these same generations have already passed in their pipes?



I have already written that in Taiwan they turn on a hologram of a shaming deity for those who create messy heaps in the wrong place. Anything to avoid taking out the trash more often!

In general, keep an eye on the toilet and always close the lid when visiting in Asia. Although this will not save you from python, ha ha!