On Sun, 30 May 1999, Eugene Kridler wrote:

> I'm not too surprised that the Brown (Rat) Tree Snake may now be in
> Hawaii.

I had someone tell me that two of them were killed on the
tarmac at the airport as they crawled out of the wheel
wells on a big jet. One was caught just as it made it into
the grass.. I suppose if that's true, then it's not
unreasonable to assume one or more got away..

Actually, I think it was a TV special..48 hours or something
like that.. where a TV journalist held up a coupld of glass
gallon jars with 2 pickled Brown Tree Snakes..they were the
ones that were killed on the tarmac.


> It will only be a matter of time when it makes its way here to the
> Mainland. Sad, sad, sad.

I also remember a story from that TV special about
a Brown Tree Snake being killed on the tarmac at an
AF Base in S. Carolina...THAT was really scary..

Tom