Undoubtedly released by someone that thought it would be “cool” to have a pet cobra. Good for this old woman!
Good that she was able to kill it, before it hurt her.
Smart, brave lady.
Of course not. There are so many other, perfectly reasonable, explanations for a cobra on a Pennsylvania patio.
PETA will be demanding that she be charged with killing an endangered species, no doubt.
This is how pythons invaded Florida. Now they are everywhere. This lady might have stopped a new invasion.
Deadly poison, but a cobra does not appear to me to be half as quick as a rattler or a cottonmouth.
Smart woman. I used a cast iron skillet on a snake in our living room. Thought about shooting it but didn’t think that’d be a good idea in the house.
There’s a local forum where people post police calls and there’s always someone calling about snakes in their yards. I get in trouble for telling folks to buck up and kill them without bothering the cops.
My cousin.
Tough old broad.
I’m surprised she didn’t catch it to sell.
Think I’ll give her a call.
5.56mm
Paging Riki Tiki Tavi.
A shovel is a good way to kill a snake. Done it a few times.
Since they used a file photo instead of a photo of the actual snake, I suspect what she actually killed was an Eastern hognosed snake...a ‘spreading adder,’ a harmless snake that when afraid flattens out its head into a hood - which has spots on he back of the hood- and acts tough like a cobra. But if this ruse fails, it will then roll over and play dead without the aid of a shovel.
“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.”
I was wondering where a cobra was coming from in the Appalachians.
Short article. It doesn’t say if she needed ‘forty whacks’
to kill the snake or what happened to the carcass.
What was a Cobra doing there anyway?
Are they common in that part of the country?
WOW, she’s got guts......
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.
Springfield, Mo cobra outbreak. True story.
Maybe it’s time to buy a mongoose.
Did she eat it afterward? Never let a good snake kill go to waste.
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.