Travelers in the northeastern provinces who encounter any dying albino squirrels should immediately stop and render aid, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but to avoid any chance of Nagas returning to murder everyone – again.
A Udon Thani cop who used a twig yesterday to resuscitate an electrocuted albino squirrel was celebrated by grateful residents who hold to folklore that a serpentine Naga King once slaughtered inhabitants for cooking and eating his lovestruck son. It’s a long story, but the Naga prince was masquerading as a squirrel while in town.
Kumphawapi police 2nd Lt. Yongyuth Thitanon came to the rescue of the little rodent by grabbing its tail in one hand and diligently pumping the stick into its chest until its clenched body relaxed and could move again. The cop said he later released it back to the wild after it lived to scamper across…
