For the last 30 days, residents of Bazaar Street in Ulsoor have been spending anxious days and nights. Most houses remained shut and shopkeepers kept an eye on the road and doors of houses all the time. All this in fear of a six-foot-long serpent which kept appearing at different houses and shops until it was caught by snake rescuers on Tuesday night.
The snake was first sighted at a house opposite Krishna temple on Bazaar Street but before snake rescuer reached there, the snake slithered into another house. Over the next two weeks, it surfaced in six other houses on four different streets. In the last four weeks, the snake was spotted in at least two shops and 10 houses. It was then that the residents decided to follow the snake next time it surfaced. A social worker from the area, Khushbu sighted the snake in her backyard and kept a watch on it even as other residents called BBMP for help. The snake climbed an eight-foot wall and settled near the water tank of a hotel.
BBMP Forest Cell volunteer Mohan K., who finally rescued the rat snake, said it was his fourth attempt in the last three weeks. “There are many old-styled houses in the area and hence the snake was able to move from one house to other across the roofs,” he said. Snakes are known to coexist in human habitations. Take the latest case of a snake rescue from a house in Nandini Layout. For the last 15 days, the house inmates were sighting the cobra, the attempts to corner it went in vain. On Wednesday morning, the cobra was finally picked by a rescuer after it was found under a pillow. Now that’s creepy!