AMAZING THAILAND

Fasten your seatbelts! A Thai airline that hired transsexuals as flight attendants to set itself apart from competitors has taken to the skies.

Murky floodwaters are receding from Bangkok's inundated outskirts to reveal some scary swamp dwellers who moved in while flooded residents were moving out — including crocodiles and some of the world's most poisonous snakes.

The best way to catch a crocodile, says Praiphan Thienthong, is with patience and electric shock. Mr. Praiphan, a crocodile catcher at Thailand's Department of Fisheries, is working overtime to help chase down more than 100 of the reptiles believed to have escaped from crocodile farms as Thailand's worst floods in half a century washed over their pens and swept them downstream to Bangkok's northern suburbs.

Thai authorities have put a bounty on the heads of more than 300 crocodiles that escaped when floods swamped their enclosures on farms around the ancient temple city of Ayyuthaya.