A snake catcher has a tug-of-war with a seven feet long python - after it tried to escape down a hole. <br /><br />Animal centre workers were called after residents spotted the serpent slithering through paddy fields in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. <br /><br />A rescue worker grabbed the serpent as it darted down a burrow in the bank of a wooden ditch.<br /><br />As the snake used all of its strength to hide in the depths, the man yanked it back out to be bagged up and driven away into the jungle. <br /><br />Onlooker Chawin Thodok, 30, who works at the emergency rescue service, said: ‘’The snakes can try to hide but we will catch them. They are strong but it didn’t take a long time to get this one once my colleague pulled its tail. <br /><br />‘’The snake was around 200cm long. <br /><br />‘’The snake was taken to the trees away from homes and put back into the wild without harming it.''
