A python needed to be carefully cut free after getting tangled up in fence netting.<br /><br />The snake slithered into the grounds of a rice processing factory before being snared in the net used to keep birds away from the land.<br /><br />Factory owner Seksan Khamsamruay, 55, found the exhausted reptile struggling to escape from the situation in Uthai Thani, central Thailand last Sunday (March 15) morning.<br /><br />He contacted the rescue team to help untangle the python. They used a knife to cut from some of the string but it was wrapped so rightly around the python's neck that they were unable to slice through.<br /><br />They then used scissors slowly cut the net instead and could eventually release the python.<br /><br />The rescuers found the 7ft long python had recently eaten a wild bird, which was still half digested in its body.<br /><br />The factory owner said he installed the net because the factory was always visited by birds coming for the snack he dried under the sun.<br /><br />Seksan said: "The purpose of the net is to prevent birds to fly in and nibble the snack that we dry outdoors.<br /><br />"We think that a bird might have become trapped in the net, which attracted the python and it was then tangled up in it.<br /><br />"I think it was probably stuck for about four days as its mouth smelled very bad from the half digested prey in its throat.''<br /><br />The snake was put into a sack and taken away to be released into the wild.
