
The Daily Tulip — International News From Around The World
Thursday 20th July 2017
Good Morning Gentle Reader…. The Costa del Sol is full of tourists from all over the world, cars with license plates from all over Europe fill the roads and highways, bringing with them their bad habits and terrible driving manners.. Fat Cat’s in their Lamborghini’s, Ferrari’s, what ever screaming past on the highway oblivious to the law, Oligarchs in their black Mercedes with Russian plates park on crossings, on the sidewalk and in no parking zones, leaving a minder to guard the car, people from the UK falling out of the bar and getting into cars, when the clearly have had to much booze, we see it all, the bad side of the tourist that comes to spoil a beautiful country…
CUSTOMS OFFICERS SEIZE PACKAGE FILLED WITH LIVE SNAKES, LIZARDS…. Customs officials in New York said a “snakes on a plane” situation wasn’t discovered until later, when five live snakes and three geckos were found in a package. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers at the John F. Kennedy International Mail Facility investigated a package from Hong Kong on June 29 that was labeled as containing a “plastic tray” but appeared to contain snakes in round containers when X-ray images were taken.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel were called in to open the outer box, which revealed Styrofoam casing with rows of holes for apparent ventilation. The FWS officials discovered the parcel contain five juvenile king cobras and three geckos, all of which were alive. “Our CBP officers perform numerous daily tasks to protect the United States from potential dangers. This seizure demonstrates our wide ranging responsibility in protecting our borders and our partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,” said Leon Hayward, acting director of CBP’s New York Field Operations.
SWIMMING RATTLESNAKE ATTEMPTS TO BOARD BOAT IN CALIFORNIA LAKE…. A group of friends boating in California Folsom Lake captured video of a swimming rattlesnake that attempted to get on board their vessel. Anthony Baciocco tweeted a video captured by friend Jeremy Evans while they were boating with a few others in Folsom Lake last week. The video shows a rattlesnake swimming beside the boat and bumping the sides as if looking for a way to get onto the vessel. The snake swims to the rear of the boat and nearly succeeds in making it to the deck as the boaters put the engine on full throttle. The snake is eventually washed away from the boat, which speeds to safety. “No more boating on Folsom Lake this year,” Baciocco tweeted.
BURMESE PYTHON CAUGHT IN FLORIDA WITH 73 EGGS INSIDE…. A Florida python hunter bagged a 14-foot, 62-pound female that he said was carrying 73 eggs at the time of its capture. Dusty Crum, one of 25 hunters employed by the South Florida Water Management District to catch invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades, said the mother snake was one of five pythons measured Monday in Homestead. “The problem is that the reproduction rate on these Burmese pythons — the big snake had 73 eggs in it, and it’s explosive to the population,” Crum told WPLG-TV. “So we need to take as many as we can out, because they’re harming all of our native animals and they’re eliminating food sources for our native predators.” The district pays the hunters the state minimum wage of $8.10 per hour, plus $40 for each snake up to 4 feet and an additional $25 for each foot beyond 4 feet. Crum previously made headlines in May when he was filmed capturing a 17-foot python with his bare hands.
AUSTRALIAN MAN PLANKS NEXT TO ENDANGERED SNAKE IN THE ROAD…. An Australian man who spotted a massive endangered python slithering across a road did the most logical thing — planking next to the snake. Tracey Heimberger posted a photo to Facebook on Tuesday showing Matthew Bager planking — lying flat on his stomach — next to a Pilbara rock olive python slithering across a road in Western Australia. “Matthew Bager you’re a legend!!” Heimberger wrote. “For those of you who aren’t aware- the Pilbara Rick Olive Python is an endangered species. Matthew waited with the python until it got off the road safely. For those of you who aren’t from the local area- this road is very busy especially at shift changeover & during the day (with tourists & general public).
Being aware of the environment you work in is important. Especially when the environment is on Traditional Owner Country & everything on the country connects to Aboriginal culture. Pilbara Rock Olive Pythons are protected & important to Pilbara Traditional Owners. In fact pythons created all the water ways in Australia, according to all of our groups ancestral stories about creation.”
GEORGIA GAS STATION CUSTOMER FINDS 3- TO 4-FOOT SNAKE HIDING AT PUMP…. A couple who stopped at a northwest Georgia gas station to fill up their tank sought assistance when they discovered a snake in the nozzle holder. Loren-Stacie Fleener said in a Facebook post they were at the Cowboys Shell gas station on U.S. Highway 278 in Cedartown when they noticed something amiss about their gas pump. “We stopped at Cowboys, and Matthew was trying to get gas and noticed a snake up inside the pump handle. We moved to another pump and a guy Brandon Radke came over and got it out,” Fleener wrote in the post, which included video of Radke’s snake extraction. The video shows Radke, with a shirt wrapped around his hands for protection, move the 3 to 4-foot snake around with the gas pump nozzle and grab it behind the head. “Once you grab behind the head it can’t really reach around and get you,” Radke told WSB-TV. Radke said he took the serpent, a non-venomous rat snake, to the woods and released it.
“Caution! Look carefully before picking up those gas handles,” Fleenor wrote. https://www.facebook.com/mcfleeclan/videos/10213374291899827/
Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, Thursday morning… …
Our Tulips today are some incredible Purple ones I found while looking for Tulips and Snakes…
A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it’s always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of “Colombian” Coffee and wish you a safe Thursday 20th July 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…
All good stuff….But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in
Be safe out there…
Robert McAngus
