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Large python saves Riza and twins
National News - December 30, 2004
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
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01-11-2005, 02:19 AM
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What do you think??
Good snake publicity.
Large python saves Riza and twins
National News - December 30, 2004
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
A few survivors of Sunday's calamity have a snake to thank for being alive.
Riza, a 26-year-old clothes vendor, said that at about 8 a.m. she was enjoying the holiday in bed when suddenly she saw walls of water, mud, rocks and branches rushing into the neighborhood. People were screaming and running. Riza, who was living in a rented house near the coast in Banda Aceh with three friends, dashed up to the second floor of a neighbor's house and stood on top of a cupboard.
But as she told Antara from a makeshift shelter on Wednesday, the current swept her and her friends off their perch. As Riza was drifting, she saw her neighbors, two girls -- twins -- and their mother.
Riza, who can swim, managed to help the girls. She saw that their mother was badly injured.
"The mother shouted, 'please help save my children. Let me be, but please save my children,'" Riza recounted, in tears.
As she struggled for her own life and that of the twins, she said a large snake as long as a telephone pole approached her. She and the nine-year-olds rested on the reptile, which was drifting along with the current.
"Thank God, we landed on higher ground where the water level was only about a meter deep. The twins, who were badly injured, were safe." Riza then slapped her face to make sure she wasn't dreaming.
Riza, who is currently taking refuge in the Bandar Blang Bintang area, plans to go to her relatives' house in Medan, North Sumatra.
"God still loves me," she said, adding that she would never forget the tragedy.
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01-11-2005, 03:36 AM
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I bet that snake's name is Lassie. 
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01-11-2005, 07:49 AM
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WOW! Finally a news story involving a snake that helps awareness!
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01-11-2005, 09:10 AM
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Great story,,,,pythons as surfboards ??? could be the next addition to the X games
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01-12-2005, 01:15 PM
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wow I never would've expected a story like that. thanks for sharing. 
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01-12-2005, 01:20 PM
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thats an awsome story
ya think maybe it did it on purpose, like dogs do sometimes
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That is great to hear. A little good publicity is a start.
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01-24-2005, 03:59 PM
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I heard about that, its a great story. I love it when they post stories of snakes doing good things rather than having a 50 foot anaconda eat a family of 4.
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