As I said ....if you wanna muck with venomous snakes stick to local species. There is no need to import much more venomous exotics from overseas ...especially when your state doesn't have anti-venin.
Dumbo! I'm sorry he bought the farm, but who goes totting around venomous snakes?!?!?!?!?! Especially such a collection .I've played with my share of snakes .....until a kid I knew got tagged by his puff adder and bought it. However, I would never have gone with 2 mambas,a vine snake and a cobra. Well, let me say maybe the cobra and the vine snake ....but definitely not the mambas. The only two snakes I am afraid of are the mole snake (impossible to hold since they can unhinge their fangs ....not just mouth but fangs ....and bite your hand even if you are holding them behind their head), and obviously the several species of Mamba.
IF he was bitten through the bag, as the cops are trying to say, then what killed him was the black mamba. They have a penchant for biting through the bags herpetologists put snakes in. It wasn't the cobra (fangs relatively short), and not the vine snake (back fanged). Hence that leaves the green mamba and the black mamba ....with the probable suspect being the black mamba since it doesn't get placated when placed in a dark space (like a bag) but continues to try to bite.
And it has long fangs for an elapid.
Another one bites the dust due to our dear friend Dendroaspis Polylepis. And that says one thing ....the guy was an amateur. No professional (at least the ones I've met who deal or have dealt with Mambas) would ever place one in a bag, and continue to hold that bag. They normally hold the bag with their snake tongs ....they give the bag the same respect they'd give the snake.
Dude made too many mistakes ....mistakes that are ok for a cottonmouth but disastrous for a Mamba.
Thanks for the bump.
Very interesting.
Ahaaa.......interesting. He droppped off the snakes on his way to the airport??
I think you should toss the Australian TIger Snake and the Taipan in that list. All Elapids with highly toxic venoms and a bad attitude.
Anybody keeping or purchasing snakes like this should have a supply of anti-venin around specific to the snake, some adrenalin in case they go into anaphylactic shock from the horse serum, and well-prepared last will and testament.
Impressive animals but definitely not for the amateur. Vipers and even Cobras are a lot easier to handle.
How did they know it was a Scotsman? Was he wearing a kilt?
Does ANYTHING NORMAL ever happen in Arkansas??