How to Catch a Stolen Snake

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The rescued python meets the media.

Here’s a story from Perth, Australia sent along by my friend Pat Sullivan. Seems that someone stole a python from a wildlife center in Perth. The thieves no doubt thought they had made a clean job of it, but the snake did not cooperate. The six-foot long python swallowed a woylie, which this article describes as an endangered marsupial.

Turns out that the woylie had been fitted with a tracking device by the wildlife conservation department. So the police simply used the signals from that device to find the python with the woylie still inside. No doubt the crooks were shocked when the police stormed into the house where they were keeping the snake.

Preachers, there is a good sermon illustration here. And for the rest of us, let’s remember what the Bible says. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23).