Smaller than 4 feet or so there'd be no real problem so long as you had the angle on it.Would you grab one?
If it's bigger than that (the one in the OP looks about 6') and it's facing you, there's nowhere to grab it. You're going have teeth or claws biting/scratching the shyt out of you. It's not worth it.
If it's facing away from you and is small enough to drag, you could grab it by the tail. The monitor will likely just try with all its might to keep running away, it'll be hard to maneuver but it's unlikely to turn and attack you so at least you'll be away from the teeth/claws. Then you could pull it out of the store or whatever that way - I think that would be pretty doable with the one in the OP in that store cause he couldn't get any traction on the floor and would just be skidding. "Unlikely" to turn on you doesn't mean impossible though, if it turned towards me I'd probably yank the tail hard to maintain control or just drop it knowing that it would dash away.
It's difficult to fully control with just your hands though. You could grab the back of the neck with one hand and the hips just above the legs with the other, and you'd pretty much have control of the claws/teeth, but then it would start whipping that tail around and give you welts from the lashes, probably fukk up your eyes if it connected. If for some reason you absolutely had to catch one then you'd probably have to drop a hand or both hands on the back of its head and then just put your full weight on its back and pin it to the ground until you had someone else's help to pick it up.
They eat a lot of weird stuff in Thailand but they don't eat those guys cause culturally they're considered bad karma since they eat dead shyt.you know they ate that lizard right?
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