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Panic as 200 Deadly Snakes Escape From Farm in China
Evening Standard ^ | 10/12 | Michael Howie

Posted on 10/12/2016 11:38:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A hunt is underway for dozens of highly-poisonous snakes after a mass escape from an unlicensed breeding farm in China.

A hunt is underway for dozens of highly-poisonous snakes after a mass escape from an unlicensed breeding farm in China.

About 200 monocled baby cobras escaped from the farm in Nanjing. So far about 150 of them have been caught or killed.

Monocled cobras are highly poisonous and their venom can prove fatal if not treated.

The snakes escaped in August, but the authorities only became aware when a villager discovered one in his home earlier this month.

Snake parts are used in a variety of traditional Chinese medicines.


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: china; snakes
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To: nickcarraway

August?


21 posted on 10/12/2016 12:21:05 PM PDT by Osage Orange (PNA....my butt)
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To: Tax-chick

If they’re “poisonous”, all people need to do is not lick them.

:)


22 posted on 10/12/2016 1:15:32 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Chickensoup

LOL


23 posted on 10/12/2016 1:16:17 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Salamander

Good point.


24 posted on 10/12/2016 1:16:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: dangus

It’s great as unintentional comedy.

Most of the snakes are CGI.

However, to see grown people fleeing in terror as a flipping *Ball Python* “chases” them down the aisle is delightfully bizarre.


25 posted on 10/12/2016 1:19:26 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Daffynition

Wow!

Now that is talent!


26 posted on 10/12/2016 1:20:44 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: nickcarraway

Grab a flute, sit down cross-legged, and start playing.


27 posted on 10/12/2016 1:24:06 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: nickcarraway

Snippets from Mark Twain’s “Roughing It”, about some neer do wells who were turned in surveyors and sent out in the wilds.

“They brought in great store of prodigious hairy spiders—tarantulas—and imprisoned them in covered tumblers up stairs in the “ranch.”

“The surveyors brought back more tarantulas with them, and so we had quite a menagerie arranged along the shelves of the room. Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish. If their glass prison-houses were touched ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute.”

There was as usual a furious “zephyr” blowing the first night of the brigade’s return, and about midnight the roof of an adjoining stable blew off, and a corner of it came crashing through the side of our ranch. There was a simultaneous awakening, and a tumultuous muster of the brigade in the dark, and a general tumbling and sprawling over each other in the narrow aisle between the bedrows. In the midst of the turmoil, Bob H—— sprung up out of a sound sleep, and knocked down a shelf with his head. Instantly he shouted:

“Turn out, boys—the tarantulas is loose!”

Holy Toledo! I can’t think of any other midnight shout that would get someone’s attention REALLY fast. :-) Whenever I knock something over, I yell “Turn out boys!” - family Joke, but some others look at me in a strange way..

The chapter is at: http://www.online-literature.com/twain/roughing-it/22/


28 posted on 10/12/2016 1:31:37 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: nickcarraway

So are the snakes poisonous or are they venomous? Crucial difference there.


29 posted on 10/12/2016 1:45:53 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Tax-chick

I’d like to know the evolutionary reason why the monocled cobra survived and dominated the bi-focal cobra.


30 posted on 10/12/2016 1:58:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Bill and Hillary for ADX Supermax!)
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To: nickcarraway

How awful!

I walked out on my drive a few years ago and thought I had walked up on a cobra!
I got my snake book out, after I killed it of course, and discovered I had killed a spreading adder!


31 posted on 10/12/2016 2:03:22 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Salamander
Kinda, sorta steampunk


32 posted on 10/12/2016 3:08:39 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Donald Trump represents the WILL of the PEOPLE.*~ Don King 09.24.16)
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To: Daffynition

I like it!


33 posted on 10/12/2016 4:16:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Rebelbase

Saved money on their vision correction? Still works if you lose an eye?


34 posted on 10/12/2016 4:18:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: nickcarraway

Snakes on a plain?


35 posted on 10/12/2016 4:53:36 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools" Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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To: Daffynition; Tax-chick

That’s a zipper!

More wild ideas for me!

:D


36 posted on 10/12/2016 5:08:41 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Moltke

Lick one and let us know.

:)


37 posted on 10/12/2016 5:09:31 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Salamander

Like you needed more wild ideas!


38 posted on 10/12/2016 6:51:21 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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To: Tax-chick

I live for them.

:D


39 posted on 10/12/2016 7:03:14 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: Salamander

I have some children like that.


40 posted on 10/12/2016 7:14:32 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer."~VDH)
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