Posted on 06/25/2019 9:33:13 AM PDT by george76
FALLS, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman used a shovel to kill a cobra she saw slithering on the patio of her apartment.
Kathy Kehoe says the squawking of some blue jays outside her unit caught her attention Monday. When she looked outside, she saw a 4 to 5-foot-long serpent.
Kehoe, 73, says she noticed the lateral spot commonly found on cobras and nudged its tail. When it rose and spread its hood, she realized it was a cobra.
Her apartment complex in Falls, Wyoming County, just northwest of Scranton, is the same one where officials removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials aren’t sure if the cobra had escaped from that unit.
LOL, you spotted my joke.
This is a spreadin’ “adder” doing a cobra imitation...though this one is very dark and doesn’t show the big eyespots like the ones we had in the Ozarks.
Break out the Wah-Wah pedal...
Get a cat.
Date them?
Mainly they eat toads as they are equipped to deal with toad toxin.
A 90 year old man married a voluptuous 25 year old woman. Then a horrible tragedy occurred and he predeceased her. She described the awful moment as follows:
“We had a wonderful life together and our love life was really great. We made love every Sunday morning to the tune of the church bell, until that awful day when a fire engine came by ringing its bell.”
oops, my error, it’s the speckled kingsnake that eats copperheads
WOW, she’s got guts......
And don’t forget to check your black mamba.
She’s fortunate it wasn’t a “spitting” cobra .... they can spit 5-8 feet & aim for the face/eyes.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2005/02/news-cobras-venom-eyes-perfect-aim/
Had a friend, Snakey Steve, lets call him. Used to run a venomous snake show at fairs. He was the one that trained the trainers. Anyway. He had a 17 foot King Cobra, at the time, America’s largest King Cobra. He got in on loan. He knew the snake from some years before as he trained it when it was a young-un.
Now here is the story: Snakey Steve was traveling the midwest in a converted bus with his snakes behind partitions, glass, etc. He went to a filling station and forgot to put chokes underneath the tires because the air brakes weren’t so good. It looked level, so he figured what the heck.
The bus started rolling. and his four year old daughter (long story there) waved as the bus went by. “HI Daddy!” She waved.
The bus rolls to the end of the parking lot and hits a brick wall and stops. Snakey Steve and the station attendant run to the bus. The doors were still open. He grabs his daughter and hands her to the attendant and closes the doors behind him...
It is now dark in the bus and it is loaded with some of the most venonmous snakes known to the world. steve always said it was the Pakistani Woodland Cobra that usually kills the trainers.
He grabbed his flashlight and began scouring the scene. Michael Jackson’s taranula was no less of wear and tear, (yet another story). The Goliath Bird Eaters were okay. The snapping turtle was just fine and Wally the five foot alligator was still relaxing up on the dashboard.
Snakes on a Bus. Most of the “cages” were fine, but some enclosures were rattled about and some snakes got free from the first safety enclosure and were trapped between the first and second safety glass partitions, inclusing of course that Pakistani cobra.
The King Cobra was just fine. Snug as a bug in a rug... The western diamond back rattlers were okay...as well as the cottonmouths and corals. But the Paki Cobras were slithering between two sheets of glass. With a flashlight and years of experience, he reached down, grabbed the snake/s and put them in the enclose. As he was doing this he looked down and saw that indeed, one of the Goliath Bird Eaters was walking between his legs...
In the end, everything was fine and he made it to the next fair.
Currently, Snakey Steve has built and runs a Zoo in the Philippines.
I got me one of them ... ;-)
At least a cobra is much safer to have around the house than a socialist.
Springfield, Mo cobra outbreak. True story.
I take mine in the front door, not the servant’s entrance.
Oh...I see the ‘b’ now mamba...
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