Pair of insolent cobras still at large

In true B-horror movie style, in a Saathip neighbourhood near Pattaya, Thailand, two king cobra snakes have been effectively terrorizing the village children since the end of August.

The fact that the two deadly snakes were purportedly chasing down local children in the street was first made public when 60-year old Pratuan Wuttipo contacted the local radio station to request assistance in capturing the cheeky reptiles who she said had hunting down kids on August 27th.

She told the Rochana Thammasathan Foundation Radio Center that residents were staying indoors after dark for fear of the marauding ophidians. The response by rescue workers was to clear away the thick grass from beside the roadside with an excavator, but when the machine broke down during the process, the eagerly superstitious locals were sure it was the work of the demon serpents.

One report states that Pattarpol Kongbuntam, a 10-year old neighbourhood boy was peacefully riding his bicycle home from school when the roaming reptilian freebooters lunged form the street-side and rose and hissed at the boy.

Sightings have been reported on a daily basis of the pair of malevolent crusaders slithering across roads, under houses, yet remain under the protection of whichever baleful spirit sent them as they remain at large.