—”They are also adept at quickly slithering ip a stick or a hoe handle. They will be on you before You can react.”
A friend of my brother collects venomous snakes and he said that a mamba would be a crown to his collection.
He is the scion of a successful family and would buy one if he could locate one for sale.
I no longer drive down the street where he lives and avoid his neighborhood whenever possible.
I used to have a buddy who had a number of venomous snakes at his house, including a King Cobra named King (imagine that).
King was particularly agressive, attempting to strike whenever he saw a person.
One day my friend was out in the yard with his young son and was shocked to see that King’s cage was empty. He yelled to his son to get in the house and he ran towards the house himself to get his gear to capture King.
His son dashed into the house and locked the door, leaving my friend pounding on the door yelling for his boy to unlock it. His boy wasn’t about to unlock the door because King was out there somewhere.
He did eventually capture King safely.