For those of you who don't know, I have a terrible fear of snakes. I don't know why, but there have been occasions where even seeing a rubber snake has reduced me to tears. I refuse to enter the snake house at the zoo, as even before the first Harry Potter movie, I had nightmares of the zoo scene.
So obviously, I made a great choice in moving to Taiwan. Rumor has it that during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in WWII, they stockpiled a wide variety of species for testing and breeding purposes to try to make new "super-snake weapons." With the allies rapidly approaching, though, they released the snakes into the wild. The Taiwanese climate, which is a snake's paradise, led to a snake population surge.
While that story may be viewed skeptically, and even a cursory internet search reveals no definitive sources, there certainly are a lot of snakes here! And now, the scariest thing I can possibly imagine, has been reported on the island. Yikes!
Read: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54A5WL20090511?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69
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I've heard of that happening in America too...
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