Posted on 05/21/2008 1:07:45 PM PDT by girlangler
Guess I’ll be looking A LOT closer at the ground after reading this. I am not near this area, but that would keep me out of the woods if I were.
This is wild! Armadillos in the south still baffle me, and now this!
Mark 16:17-18
I used to live at the gate to Ft. Bragg as a youngster when my Dad was stationed there. I was about 9 or so. In the part of the base adjacent to where we lived we “discovered” a rice paddy and village replica and a zoo of jungle animals. We befriended and fed the coati mundi. It was near the fitness trail if anyone was there in the early seventies. Maybe it escaped from there.
Also, in my neighborhood was an exotic animal dealer. He sold the record King Cobra for the movie SSSSSSSSS. I saw it in his basement and it scare me to death. Huge snake.
Yikes! That is spooky. Doesn’t sound like this guy is some kind of a nut and it looks like the wildlife agents are taking it seriously. Hope they get it, and soon.
I can just imagine a security cam video of the interview as he bends his leg behind himself to kick the King Cobra exhibit sign behind a table. Meanwhile, he's leaning on a tarp covering an obviously broken aquarium-type enclosure, the break not visible to the cameraman but certainly to us, the viewer.
Eeek! I’m not afraid of critters much, but this would be truly unnerving!
(Snake is really good to eat. Like a poor man’s lobster.)
I’ve got you beat.
In my town, there’s an exotic animal dealer next to a daycare center, and last year they painted 12 huge cobras on the side of the building on a hill right above the daycare’s outdoor playground.
It’s absolutely hilarious to drive by and see all of the kids playing in the sadows of such an evil looking mural.
Vernon Byrd was on an all-terrain vehicle in a field off Johnson Road last Tuesday.....
Maybe he should stay off the Cobra beer??
Oh man!!! My parents took me to the drive-in to see that movie when I was like 6 years old and it scared the HELL out of me! My parents were young and dumb and saw no harm in taking me to see movies like “SSSSSSSSS”, “Death Race 2000”, “The Devil’s Rain” and of course my favorite, “Phantom of the Paradise”! I still bear the psycho-logical scars to this day!
I've always read/heard that King Cobras are by nature reclusive, and will avoid contact with humans whenever possible...if true this seems very uncharacteristic. They also are, in terms relative to other poisonous snakes, much slower moving...a mongoose that can generally outmaneuver and gain an advantage over a cobra will be dead meat up against some other vipers.
Yet we keep letting them get imported as pets/research subjects etc...
Rikki-tivvi-tavvi bump!
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