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.
Maybe it’s time to buy a mongoose.
I KNEW I forgot something!
That’s big for a copperhead!
I’m witchoo.
Some folks have an irrational fear of snakes.
Interesting point.
I suspect that a 9-ft copperhead is the longest copperhead on record by several feet.
Did she eat it afterward? Never let a good snake kill go to waste.
Yes, that’s my 275GTB4. I wish.
I think that’s a TR6 on the right and a Morgan in the foreground.
I’d forgotten about them.
I wonder if it could have been a hog nosed sake. The first time I saw one I was positive it was a cobra. They raise up and flatten their heads to look bigger. If you have never seen one, it could scare the bejebus out of you.
You got that right... When you are bass fishing in NC the cottonmouths will swim a hundred yards to climb into the boat with you... Often 2 or 3 of them will come from different directions simultaneously...
Over that past 60-years, my bass boats have all ended up with lots of pockmarks from defending my "territory"...
I never do.
I actually lurk and eagerly wait for someone to express their relief that snakes can’t fly.
:D
How often to you get to pounce?
Quite likely.
9 ft Copperhead? Either someone needs a new tape measure or that belongs in the record book. They rarely exceed 3 ft.
Hi.
“...the cottonmouths will swim a hundred yards to climb into the boat with you... “
First time it happened to me I was fishing on lake Okeechobee when I was 12. Me and my buddy were watching it coming towards our boat going, “it’s not going to get in the boat...it’s not going to get in the boat is it..it’s getting in the boat!!!”
Had to fight the damn thing with an oar.
5.56mm
Yes they’re very territorial and aggressive.
Got the joke. Just affirming the ludicrousness of the journalista.
Different strokes for different folks, that’s for sure. We have Eastern Rat Snakes, Hognose Snakes, Northern Black Racers & Copperheads on our place. About an hour and a half away, we find Timber Rattlers & I’ve had occasion to run into quite a few of them. The most impressive/awesome TR I’ve seen was a Black Phase about as thick as my forearm with a huge head .... right next to the trail & it sounded off when we stopped for a break & it got a bit nervous as to why we’d stopped right there next to it (never saw it ‘til it rattled). All relatively “tame” snakes to you I would imagine, but that’s about all I ever want to see .... no spitting cobras on my “want to see” snake bucket list! Good luck with yours & may you be blessed with never having a bad incident with your snake(s) (I’m guessing you have more than one venomous .... :-)
“A cottonmouth is an asshole and will want to f*** with you.”
Truer words have rarely been spoken.
Think of the cottonmouth as the raging SJW of the snake world.
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