Working Conditions That Really Sssssuck
By Wyatt Earp | June 15, 2009
You think your office is bad? At least you’re not a cop in Sierra Leone.
FREETOWN – Police in Sierra Leone have called in the army and fire brigade to try to take back control of a police station which has been overrun by hundreds of poisonous snakes.
Wow, and I bitch when our soda machine is out of Diet Pepsi.
Snake charmers have tried in vain to lure the beasts, mostly cobras and vipers, out of Gerihun police station in the southern district of Bo. Attempts to smoke them out also failed.
Officers and residents wanting to report crimes have grown too afraid to come to the building.
“Even during work time when statements are being taken, these snakes can come out in dozens. Inhabitants have found it difficult to report cases to the police,” station spokesman Brima Kota said. (H/T – )
Well, being a professional police detective, I would have done the truly brave and honorable thing:
Taken my vacation the second the first snake reared its ugly head.
Yeah, I’m a team player like that.
Topics: WTF? | 15 Comments »
June 15th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I officially have the heebie jeebies. *squeal*
June 15th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I vote they turn the police station into the new jail.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
RT – Yeah, it make my skin crawl, too.
Deanna – Wow, nice idea! I second that!
June 15th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
One word: Napalm.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Wow…..I guess I will just man up and stop sniveling about the occasional roach in the station, and the rats in the back parking lot……
June 16th, 2009 at 2:02 am
You think that sssssucks? Try transplanting that scenario from work to home! Hell, I had to kill a snake just less than 16 hours ago that was inside the house! If I had given it a chance, the SOB would’ve been between the walls! And I just got back from vacation!
June 16th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Raptor – Good for what ails ya!
Jeffro – It’s exactly why we need a Death Star.
Deputy Polarbear – Considering the alternative, those are almost pets!
Morgan – Where do you live? I want to cross the location off my “Move There” list.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Once in an apartment complex that I used to live in, someone lost their python, and suspected it was in the wall in their bathroom. Management, knowing I was a former snake owner, called me in to see if I could catch it. I went in their bathroom and immediately looked at their light fixture/medicine cabinet. I opened the medicine cabinet and there was a hold up near the light and next to the wall. After getting a flashlight and looking in, I could see the snake coiled. I tried tapping my fingertips on the wall to simulate a mouse’ footsteps, but he apparently wasn’t hungry and didn’t come out. So I told them to leave the bathroom light off and put a lamp on the bathroom floor, and he’d eventually go to the heat there. And he did.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Uhh…that should read “hole” not hold.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Thank you, Dragonlady474. Now I know where to come.
However, we only have one native poisonous snake in the UK (Vipera berus) and I have never seen one – they rapidly disapeer as soon as anyone comes near. Only 14 known fatalities since 1876.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
“Police in Sierra Leone have called in the army and fire brigade to try to take back control of a police station which has been overrun by hundreds of poisonous snakes.”
Hell, that’s nothin’. Our nation’s capitol is overrun by politicians. I’d rather have poisonous snakes any day, at least you can hit them with a stick.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Northeastern Indiana, home of garter snakes, and on the very rare occasion, copperheads! Come right on over! I live out in the country, so if you’re lucky, you might be able to catch a sighting within a week!
June 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
DL474 – Snakes. Not my cup o’ tea. Oh, and Heh, heh, “hole.”
Alan B – So, those fatalities are on a pretty exclusive list?
BobG – Although our politicians bite. Boy, do they bite!
Morgan – Maybe when NASCAR is at the Brickyard. And I’ll bring my snake repellent.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I just saw an article where it said they just decided to blast them with gunfire…which of course worked. Sure, they take the easy way out. lol