Going cheap: A house full of snakes

သေပၸါေတြနဲ ့ၿပည္ ့ေနတဲ ့အိမ္...

This house where thousands of snakes dwell, is on cheap sale
ေလွ်ာ ့ေစ်းနဲ ့ေရာင္းမယ္ ....ဒါေပမယ္ ့ေၿမြေတြကေတာ ့ေထာင္နဲ ့ေသာင္းနဲ ့ခ်ီၿပီးရွိေနတယ္...

အေမရိကန္နုိင္ငံမွ Chase Bank ဟာ Idaho ၿပည္နယ္၊ Rexburg အရပ္ရွိေဒၚလာ ၁၇၅၀၀၀ ခန္ ့တန္ဖိုးရွိ
သည္ ့အိမ္တစ္လံုးအား ေဒၚလာ ၆၆၀၀၀ ေစ်းေလ်ာ ့ၿပီးေရာင္းေနပါတယ္....ဘာေႀကာင္ ့လည္းဆုိေတာ ့အ
ဆုိပါေနအိမ္တြင္ ေၿမြမ်ားေထာင္နဲ ့ခ်ီၿပီးေနထုိင္လွ်က္ရွိလို ့ပဲၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
အိမ္ပုိင္ရွင္မ်ားၿဖစ္သည္ ့Benjamin ႏွင္ ့Amber Sessions တုိ ့ေဒ၀ါလီခံ၊ လူမဲြစာရင္း၀င္သြားခဲ ့ႀကလို ့အ
ဆုိပါေနအိမ္ကုိလည္း ဘဏ္ကသိမ္းယူခ်ိတ္ပိတ္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
" ယခင္အိမ္ပုိင္ရွင္မ်ားက အိမ္ဖုိးေငြအေက်မေပးခ်င္တာနဲ ့ဒီအိမ္မွာေၿမြေတြအမ်ားႀကီးရွိတယ္ဆုိၿပီးလုပ္ႀကံ
ဇတ္လမ္းလုပ္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္တယ္လို ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့ကုိေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..." လို ့Benjamin Sessions
ကဆုိပါတယ္...

ေမ်ာ ့ႀကဳိးေၿမြေတြဟာ အဆိပ္မရွိလို ့လူကုိေတာ့အႏ ၱရယ္မၿဖစ္ေစနုိင္ပါဘူး...
Garter snakes are not poisonous and are harmless to humans

ေၿမြေတြတစ္ေကာင္မွမရွိေအာင္လဲ အေသးစိတ္ႀကဳိတင္ၿပဳလုပ္ထားပါတယ္လုိ ့လည္း၎တုိ ့ကုိေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့
တယ္လုိ ့ ထုိဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံကဆုိပါတယ္...
၎တုိ ့အေနၿဖင္ ့အိမ္ၿခံေၿမပဲြစားကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့သည့္အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားအား အမွန္ၿဖစ္တယ္လို ့ယံုႀကည္
ခဲ့ႀကပါတယ္...
ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာေတာ ့သူတုိ ့ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံဟာ ေၿမြေတြရွိတယ္ဆုိတဲ ့ဇတ္လမ္းဟာ လုပ္ႀကံဇတ္လမ္းမဟုတ္ပဲ
တစ္ကယ္ ့ၿပႆနာတစ္ခုဆုိတာ သိလာရပါေတာ ့တယ္...
ထုိအိမ္အတြင္းရွိေနသည္ ့ေၿမြမ်ားဟာ အေမရိကန္နုိင္ငံတစ္၀ွမ္းေတြ ့ရေလ ့ရွိသည္ ့ေမ်ာ ့ႀကဳိးေၿမြ တစ္မ်ဴိး
ၿဖစ္တယ္လုိ ့ယံုႀကည္ရပါတယ္...
၎ေၿမြမ်ားဟာ အဆိပ္မရွိပဲ လူကုိအႏ ၱရယ္မၿဖစ္ေစနုိင္ပါဘူး....ပုိးမႊားတိရိစာၧန္ဆုိင္ရာ စစ္ေဆးသူတစ္ဦး
ရဲ ့အဆုိအရ ထုိေနအိမ္မွာ ေၿမြေပါင္းေထာင္နဲ ့ေသာင္းနဲ ့ခ်ီၿပီးရွိေနတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္...

ယခုေတာ့ အမွန္အကန္အိမ္ရွာရန္ အိမ္အက်ဴိးေဆာင္ကုမၸဏီမွ Todd Davis အတြက္ကေတာ ့ထုိအိမ္ကုိ
၀ယ္မည္ ့သူ ရေအာင္ရွာဖို ့ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲႀကဳိးပမ္းေနရပါတယ္...
၎အေနႏွင္ ့အိမ္မႀကီးႏွင့္အိမ္ေရွ ့မ်က္ႏွာစာနံရံအႀကားေၿမြေတြေထာင္နဲ ့ခ်ီၿပီး အၿပည္ ့ရွိေနတာကုိ မၿငင္း
နုိင္ပါဘူးလို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...
" ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့အထင္ေတာ ့ေၿမြေတြအဲဒီအထဲကုိေရာက္သြားၿပီး အဲဒီမွာမွာ အသုိက္လုပ္ကာေနေတာ ့မယ္
လို ့ဆံုးၿဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်လိုုက္ပံုပါပဲ...အခုေတာ ့သူတုိ ့ရဲ ့မိတ္ေဆြ၊ သူငယ္ခ်င္းေၿမြေတြအားလံုးကုိဖိတ္ေခၚၿပီးအ
တူေနႀကပံုပါပဲ..." လုိ ့သူကဆုိပါတယ္...
" ဒီအိမ္ကုိ၀ယ္မယ္ ့သူဟာ ေၿမြခ်စ္သူၿဖစ္ယင္ၿဖစ္ မၿဖစ္လို ့ကေတာ ့ေၿမြပါေတြအမ်ားႀကီးေမြးထားတဲ ့သူပဲ
ၿဖစ္မွ အဆင္ေၿပမွာပါ..." လို ့Davis က အိမ္၀ယ္မယ္ ့သူနဲ ့ပါတ္သက္လို ့ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္....


အေမရိကန္နုိင္ငံ၊ ကန္ဆပ္ၿပည္နယ္၊ ေလာရင္ ့အရပ္ရွိ အေမရိကန္ေၿမာက္ပုိင္းေဒသ ကုန္းေရႏွစ္ေထြေန
သတၱ၀ါမ်ားေလ ့လာေရးဆုိင္ရာဗဟုိညႊန္ႀကားေရးမွဴး ဂ်ဴိးေကာလင္းစ္ ကေတာ ့အဆုိပါေနအိမ္ဟာ ေၿမြေတြ
ေနတဲ ့တြင္းအသိုက္ႀကီးေပၚမွာ ေဆာက္လုပ္ထားခဲ ့ပံုရတယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္....
" ေၿမြေတြဟာ ၎တုိ ့ရဲ ့အသိုက္အၿမဳံကုိအထူးပဲ သစၥာရွိႀကပါတယ္...သူတုိ ့ဟာ ထုိအနီးအနားတစ္၀ုိက္မွာ
ပဲေပါက္ဖြားႀကၿပီး အေအးဓါတ္ကုိ ကာကြယ္ဖုိ ့စုေပါင္းေနႀကတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..." သူကဆုိပါတယ္...
ေၿမြေတြကေတာ ့ဖယ္မထုတ္မခ်င္း သူတုိ ့ဘာသာအလုိအေလ်ာက္သြားမယ္ ့ပံုမေပၚပါဘူး...
ၿပည္နယ္အတြင္း ေၿမြတိရိစာၧန္မ်ားအား ကုိင္တြယ္ထိန္းသိမ္းရာတြင္တာ၀န္ရွိသည္ ့Idano ၿပည္နယ္ ငါးႏွင္ ့
ေတာရုိင္း ဌာနအေနၿဖင္ ့ေၿမြမ်ားကုိ ဖယ္ရွားေပးဖုိ ့သေဘာတူခဲ ့လွ်င္ေတာင္မွ ေၿမြအခ်ဴိ ့က်န္ေနခဲ ့နုိင္ကာ
ထုိေၿမြမ်ားမွထပ္မံေပါက္ဖြားၿပီး ေၿမြသုိက္ႀကီးၿပန္ၿဖစ္လာဖုိ ့အလားအလာရွိပါတယ္လို ့လည္း ေကာလင္းစ္ ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အဲဒီေၿမြေတြဖမ္းၿပီး တရုတ္ၿပည္ပုိ ့လုိက္ရယင္ ႏွစ္ဦးႏွစ္ဖက္အဆင္ေၿပဖုိ ့ရွိပါတယ္...

The Chase Bank in the US is selling a house in Rexburg, Idaho, for US$66,000 (RM201,415) less than its estimated value of US$175,000 (RM534,056) because it's infested with thousands of snakes.

The home went into foreclosure after owners Benjamin and Amber Sessions were forced into bankruptcy.
"We were told that the previous owners in there didn't want to make their payment because they made up a story that there were snakes there, that they didn't want to pay their mortgage so they made up a snake story," Benjamin Sessions said.
The couple was also informed that every precaution was taken to ensure there wasn't a snake problem. They trusted the real estate agent that the information they had been told was true.
Later, the Sessions learned that the story of the snakes was not made up, and there was a problem.
The reptile occupants are believed to be common garter snakes, a type found throughout the US.
They are not poisonous and are harmless to humans. But, according to a pest inspector, thousands are living in the house.
Realty Quest associate broker Todd Davis is now faced with the daunting task of trying to sell it.
He said he has no reason to disbelieve the accounts of hundreds of snakes sandwiched between the house and its exterior siding and piles of the reptiles in the crawlspace.
"I think the snakes got into a spot and decided to make it their home, now they’ve invited all their friends," he said.
On his potential buyer, Davis said: "I guess I need a snake lover. Or someone with multiple mongooses."
Joe Collins, director of the Centre for North American Herpetology in Lawrence, Kansas, said it is likely that the house was built on a snake den site.
"Snakes have a great deal of fidelity to the den site," he said. "They’re born near there and they return each fall to den up and avoid the cold."
The snakes are not likely to relocate, voluntarily or otherwise.
Even if the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, which oversees reptiles in the state, agreed to dislodge the garters, some snakes will remain and reproduce, restarting the cycle, Collins said.

Watch the previous owners discussing their snake house - then valued at US$109,000 - here.