Snake lover killed by one of his 24 king cobras

Telegraph UK ^ | June 30, 2011 | Nick Britten

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A snake conservationist who kept one of Europe

[Cincinatus]

Darwinian Natural Selection in action!

[LibWhacker]

Some people want that doggone Darwin Award and they're not willing to stand in line. Here's another one who favors the dangerous reptile approach:

[Ronin]

I guess that’s how he expected to go someday.

[Pinkbell]

You know, I love animals, am all for conservation, and I'm sorry that he died, but when you play with fire, or snakes in his case, there is a good chance you are going to get burned/bitten.

“These king cobras know I provide them with food and fresh water so they’re not going to go out of their way to do harm to me when I do no harm to them whatsoever. People say I’m mad but it’s better than saying that you’re bad and everything I do is good.

They aren't dogs, you know? You were mad to think that you could have that kind of relationships with snakes.

[Pinkbell]

Speaking of cobras, here is a guy that has a job from hell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIMigVo1pyA

[21twelve]

I’m not so sure - from the photo it looks like he was a bit too comfortable with his snakes. Sad - sounds like he was picking up steam with his projects. OTOH, luckily he didn’t subject some poor visitor to his almost-opened shop to harm. (”Oh, it’s okay - you can touch him”)

[Teacher317]

The second story about 7.5’ Boa is ridiculous. First, larger snakes often do not eat for several weeks at a time. The journalism major wants to make it sound like the snake is desperate and starving. However, their digestive systems are built for such long waits between meals. Second, a 7.5’ snake would have trouble with a barely-medium-sized dog like a beagle. They are ZERO threat to any humans except for possibly infants who are not yet crawling. Third, boas do not “pounce”. My 8’ boa was the laziest eater around. He’d barely bother to move, seemingly preferring to wait until the rat or rabbit practically climbed into its mouth.

[101voodoo]

Now she clutched him to her bosom, "You're so beautiful," she cried Now she stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed and held him tight But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite "Take me in, oh tender woman Take me in, for heaven's sake Take me in oh tender woman," sighed the snake

"I saved you," cried that woman "And you've bit me even, why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die" "Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin "You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in

[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/al-wilson-lyrics/the-snake-lyrics.html]

[AlexW]

Don’t know of any Cobras here, but I did visit a Python
over on Bohol.(Philippines)
It was 600 lbs, and the family that has it lets the kids
curl up with it.
It was allegedly caught close to their home, and now a road side attraction.

You can do a search...just type “Bohol Python”.
There are numerous hits.

[DeaconRed]

Live by the snake - die by the snake! ! ! !
Should have had a dog

[mikey_hates_everything]

I guess the cobra didn’t love him.

[djf]

Lucky dude.

If he had 24 girl friends, he’d a been dead and gone a long time ago!

[Jack Hammer]

There are more and more of these characters around these days, suffering from Walt Disney Syndrome.

They think that if animals “are just understood and loved” they’ll be friendly.

Often they come to a premature demise.

There was that Australian guy who loved crocodiles, who was stung to death by a ray; and, of course, the bear guy who got eaten (along with his girlfriend) up in Alaska.

The latest thing is swimming with Great White Sharks; how long before one of them becomes a snack for a fish?

People used to know better, but now they seem to think that, “Hey, if I just ‘project’ friendliness, the wild animals will rspond in kind.”

Crazy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Quite a people with exotic pets, or obsessions with wild animals (bear eats bear obsessed guy and girlfriend) are killed by them. I remember a report on a fellow who kept komodo dragons in his apartment and they grew — and eventually they attacked and ate him — grim discovery after he was missing from work for awhile.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I was just commenting on that above.

Good name — “Walt Disney Syndrome.”

The cute cuddly panda on yogurt cups (starting about 1970) have twisted people’s thinking about the danger of wild animals, as well as their need to “care” for them.

[BigCinBigD]

Good. One less moron on Earth is never a bad thing.

[PLMerite]

This is where I get to say “he died doing what he loved.”

Bleeding from the eyeballs.

[Ronin]

Wasn't too long ago that a Kumbaya type hippy climbed into a rhino enclosure at a zoo to become one with the baby rhino.

Alas, she didn't clear it well enough with mommy rhino who turned her into toe-jam.

When Roy of "Sigfried and Roy" got chomped up by a tiger that he had raised since kitten-hood, a lot of people said the tiger went crazy. Somebody, I don't remember who, put it in perspective.

He said, "No, that tiger went tiger."

[SunkenCiv]

Yeomans, 45, insisted he kept the snakes at his home in Eastwood, Nottingham, to ensure "the survival of the species"

Seems like that species is doing okay. Scratch one useful idiot.