FILE PHOTO: A white-lipped pit viper snake is seen at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
BANGKOK (Reuters) - In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the rafters of a home in Bangkok, and quickly grabs its head with his bare hands.
"I need to remain steady and calm," says the 50-year-old, as he pulls the fat snake, almost five meters (16 ft) long, off the roof and wrestles it into a rice sack.
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