Posted on 11/04/2022 3:27:33 PM PDT by algore
An eight-year-old Indian boy killed a cobra that had wrapped itself around his arm and sank its fangs into his skin by biting it back in a miraculous tale of survival.
The boy, known only as Deepak, was attacked by the snake in the remote Pandarpadh village in India’s central Chhattisgarh region on Monday, it was reported.
The cobra latched on to him while he was playing outside his family home and wound its body around his arm, before rearing back and biting down to inject its deadly poison.
Fighting through the pain, Deepak furiously shook his arm but couldn't release the reptile, at which point he decided to give the attacker a taste of its own medicine and viciously sank his own teeth into its body, successfully killing the animal.
'The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in great pain,' Deepak told The New Indian Express.
'As the reptile didn't budge when I tried to shake it off, I bit it hard twice. It all happened in a flash,' he said
Dry bites are often administered by adult snakes who have full control over the deployment of venom from their glands.
Snakes use venom to kill their prey, or when fighting off dangerous predators. Dry bites are often delivered when the snake is trying to warn or scare off animals, rather than kill them.
The Jashpur district where Deepak had his tussle with the cobra is renowned for serpentine activity – there are more than 200 species of snake living in the region.
A recent study found that of the 63,000 people estimated to have died from snakebites in 2019, 51,000 were killed in India
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Now *that* is seriously, Chuck Norris level badass.
Boy Bites Snake...and lives to tell about it!
Impressive but look at the set of choppers on that kid.
Man Bites Dog.
Boy Bites Snake.
Cobra asks for anti-Deepak
I wonder what that tastes like. I once had cobra gallbladder bile when in HK, but never cobra meat. Does it taste like rattlesnake?
Well, apparently this kid was more venomous than the cobra. Bet if that snake had to do it over again, he wouldn’t pull his punches.
You knew damn well I was an ankle biter named Deepak before you took me in
Reserve an H1B visa for Deepak when he grows up to work at Twitter.
“...of the 63,000 people estimated to have died from snakebites in 2019, 51,000 were killed in India.”
Paging St. Patrick...
LOL
Badass of the week.... that kid is going places. Give him a cigar. Apparently he IS old enough.
Bet the snake was banking on that!
You ain't right.
Man bites dog.
It’s a thing … I had to try it for the story. Supposedly, it’s medicinal … makes you potent
So.......ummmm......did it work?
It made me Ultra Giga MAGA
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