Panic at Riyadh airport as cargo of 300 cobras escapes

Agence France-Presse ^ | August 1, 2002

[sweetliberty]

"Carvelle family reunion?"

ROTFLMBO!

[xJones]

Showing that I have entirely too much time on my hands, I've just mused that if you dropped each cobra into a thick sack, you could then place the whole sack into the suitcase.

There are few things in life that would give me more pleasure than standing (at a very safe distance) with a videocam and taping you dropping 300 cobras into a thick sack and then stuffing them into a suitcase.

[sweetliberty]

"how would one go about putting 300 cobras in luggage?"

Interesting movie material. "Airport 2002'?

[Ax]

We could send Saint Patrick there to clear up their snake problem, but can't have any symbols of Christianity there, can we?

[sweetliberty]

Steve Irwin is amazing! They should have called him in. Hey, that gives me an idea. He's so good at spotting and handling vermin, maybe we should offer him a job as head of airport security.

[sweetliberty]

You have way too much time on your hands too don't you darlin'?

[Prodigal Son]

But this does raise the question of how do you stuff 300 cobras into luggage?

Very carefully...

[Travis McGee]

How could they find the right snakes?

[oldfart]

A primary food source for cobras is other snakes. A mother cobra guards her nest until just before the eggs hatch, which gets her off the scene when the little ones come crawling out.
I don't know how he worked this, but knowing the above, I don't think they were all in a single container. They had to be in separate bags.
By the way, cobras are not immune to cobra venom.

[ZULU]

I'd take my chances with a cobra over one of those burnoosed bandits any day. Too bad they got them all.

[Billthedrill]

He declined to say how many the snakes had slithered free, but eyewitnesses estimated it at around 300.

Pure hysteria. You loose a crummy hundred or so deadly, poisonous cobras in an airport and right away people get upset and overestimate. People panic over every tiny thing...

[RnMomof7]

LOL...

[Thinkin' Gal]

Hmmm, was it a carry-on bag?

[happygrl]

This is obvious. Saudis = venemous snakes.