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SAfrican couple drives 170km with spitting cobra in car
breitbart ^ | March )4, 2009

Posted on 03/04/2009 7:03:22 AM PST by Joiseydude

A couple drove 170 kilometres (100 miles) from South Africa's famous Kruger National Park with a highly venomous spitting cobra in their car, the Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday. Gordon Parratt, 69, felt the 85-centimetre (33-inch) long snake wind itself around his leg while he was driving.

At first he thought an insect had brushed his leg and swiped it away, but when he looked down he saw the snake next to his left foot, the report said.

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1 posted on 03/04/2009 7:03:22 AM PST by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude

Things that make you go . . . OH MY GOD, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!


2 posted on 03/04/2009 7:06:09 AM PST by BipolarBob (When do we call Obama "Dear Leader" and learn the new salute?)
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To: Joiseydude

Gosh, I miss Steve Irwin now lol (8-l


3 posted on 03/04/2009 7:08:30 AM PST by Spacetrucker (Annie, get your gun)
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To: Joiseydude
The Pretoria couple made several stops to remove the snake

I'd have made one stop and not ever gotten back in.

4 posted on 03/04/2009 7:09:24 AM PST by bgill
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To: BipolarBob

I never would have lived long enough to call an expert. I would have died of fright and deprived that snake of delivering a lethal bite. Either that or I’d only have one leg today.


5 posted on 03/04/2009 7:13:36 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: Joiseydude

So, they KNEW there was a cobra in the car, but they got back in because they weren’t sure where in the car exactly?
No Darwin for them today, but...someday.


6 posted on 03/04/2009 7:14:28 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: Joiseydude

You have an idea for a sequel? I think I could do that.

7 posted on 03/04/2009 7:14:45 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: Joiseydude

If it were me I think the Snake would have slid off of my Leg because there would be plenty of brown stuff coming down my Leg, I’m just sayin.


8 posted on 03/04/2009 7:14:52 AM PST by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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To: Joiseydude

“Fortunately I’m not the panicky type.”....

or to smart type either.....


9 posted on 03/04/2009 7:15:23 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Spacetrucker

Gosh, I miss Steve Irwin now lol

KRACKY!


10 posted on 03/04/2009 7:18:42 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Rappini

if it were me, I would have probably done both a mix of brown and yellow stuff flowing everywhere.

I am not a snake person, especially one that spits.


11 posted on 03/04/2009 7:23:54 AM PST by vin-one (REMEMBER the WTC !!!!!!!!)
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To: vin-one

I am not a snake person, especially one that spits.

...or is tied around your leg.


12 posted on 03/04/2009 7:27:48 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Joiseydude

I nearly wrecked the car when a cricket crawled up my pant leg (didn’t know what it was, but knew it was a bug). Got out of the car and stripped in front of my hysterically laughing kids. God only knows what I would have done with a snake, much less a cobra!


13 posted on 03/04/2009 7:49:46 AM PST by lula ( If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?)
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To: Joiseydude

I’m checking my truck from now on! (shudder)


14 posted on 03/04/2009 8:33:09 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Joiseydude

I thought only dogs humped legs.


15 posted on 03/04/2009 9:30:19 AM PST by Moltke
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To: Moltke

“Are we there yet?” takes on a whole new meaning when I read these kinds of stories.....


16 posted on 03/04/2009 9:31:43 AM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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