This is the moment firemen catch a huge python after it strangled a fighting cock worth more than 1,5000GBP.<br /><br />Rooster owner Sutthibuth Boonchu, 30, was woken up by nightmarish howls from the bird as the snake suffocated it in Chachoengsao, Thailand, last Friday (August 16) night.<br /><br />The shocked farmer leapt from his bed and dashed into the garden with a torch where he was devastated to see the python wrapped around the bird.<br /><br />Rescue workers arrived and caught the 16ft-long serpent which was made to release the bird from its clutches.<br /><br />Sutthibuth said: "The dead gamecock was worth over 55,000 Baht so this has upset me a lot.<br /><br />''But I'm still relieved that the snake didn't get my most valuable roosters. That would have been very bad.''<br /><br />The python did not put up a struggle and was released back into the wild.
