[11th Earl of Mar]

SHAZZAM!

[vetvetdoug]

OMG!!!! Not one but TWO Mambas. The cobra is a bad MF but at least it gives a little warning. Mambas just raise up and bite you....very little feeling to the bite until you start to feel the pain from the venom and then you die. This means some idiot within a few hours drive from here raises mambas. I will never look at a black racer with indifference again.

[TheBigB]

Note to self: NEVER kick ANY box marked "Live venomous reptile."

[Barlowmaker]

Sounds like somebody brought some souveniers back from South Africa.

The Cobra might have been the most feisty, but those mambas take a back seat to no serpent in its deadliness to man. They were juveniles, because they can get to 14 feet in length at adulthood.

[najida]

What is the last think a redneck says?

"Hey ya'll, watch this!"

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Zoo officials said they haven't decided what they're going to do with the snakes, including the seething cobra. "I don't want it here," Berry said with a laugh. "He's not a nice guy."

The cobra's not the problem, its the TWO mambas that you worry about. Due to security concerns, incidents like this should be handled the same as if they found bomb making materials.

I know I wouldn't want to live near neighbors involved in either of these activities.

[Petronski]

He makes some damn good shampoo, though.

The kind you get in a SAL-on.

[Willie Green]

"I was just going to take it back to work and kill it, but I figure cobras aren't indigenous to Arkansas," Mitchell said. "I knew the zoo would have a snake handler."

Two things in this sentence tell us Mitchell isn't indigenous to Arkansas either:

1. He knows what the word "indigenous" means.
2. He first thought of going to the zoo to find a snake handler rather than church.

[gargoyle]

...You did the right thing, Mr. Mitchell. My only advise to you is, if you find a box full of terrorists with weapons, take them back to work and, naaa, take them to a place to be put in a cage or behind bars...

[el_chupacabra]

Okay, my story pales in comparison but, a week ago, I pulled off the side of the road in Arizona to "commune with nature" (if you know what I mean). I stepped off the blacktop onto some rocks, looked down, and had landed about a half inch from a coiled diamondback. He wasn't terribly big, and I expect I startled him as much as he startled me. Fortunately, he didn't strike me, but he hissed, showed his fangs, and shook that rattle.

It did not cross my mind to kick him, but it sure got my blood pumping.

[aardvark1]

Pizon! I bought one fer ma boy once fer Christmas. You want one fer yer boy. "Rock of ages, cleft fer me..." One of the best scenes ever from an "Earnest" movie.

[N. Theknow]

The Arkansas Bar Association is going to be wondering why their officers are late for the meeting.

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

I hate snakes

[theFIRMbss]

"It's a tale of two great snakes
that snake great together: Giant reptiles
battle to the death — with hapless humans
as the prize! David Hewlett (the new SCI FI Original
series Stargate Atlantis) and Angel Boris
(SCI FI Pictures' Dragon Storm and Epoch: Evolution) star."

"WORLD PREMIERE: Saturday, May 22, at 9PM ET/PT"

[jackbill]

Zoo officials said they haven't decided what they're going to do with the snakes, including the seething cobra.

"I don't want it here," Berry said with a laugh. "He's not a nice guy."

Don't you just love it when these folks are conflicted: I don't want it but I don't want to kill it. Maybe just pass the buck.

Kill the damned SOB for crying out loud. It's vicious and deadly. Get it?

[reagan_fanatic]

Little Rock Resident Suprised By Burning Bag On Doorstep

ASSOCIATED PRESS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - When Rodney Jensen's doorbell rang late last Saturday evening, he figured it was just his cousin Benny returning from a long day of squirrel hunting. "Hell, I was a-goin' to tell him to drop the squirrels on the back porch and sit down with me for a couple of brewskis, you know. It sure as hell wasn't Benny a-ringin, I'll tell you that."

"When I opened up the front door and peeked outside I found this paper bag a-layin there all up in flames. Scared the be-jeezus out of me, you know, so I proceeded to stomp the hell out that thing. Damned if'n some ne'er do well hadn't put a biggest pile of sh*t inside that bag I'd ever seen."

"The minute my foot hit that bag, there was the biggest galdarn explosion of crap I'd ever seen. Sh*t flyin everywhere, all over my jeans and my shoes. Made me madder'n hell, you know. It took me upwards of two hours to clean up that durn mess. The missus even made me move my transmission out of the bathtub so I could take a damn bath. Just wait till I catch those little..."

Although Mr. Jensen has never discovered the identity of his tormenters, he does have a theory. "I think it's those damn trick-r-treaters that come around every Halloween a pesterin me. Well, I got a suprise to drop in their bags, and it aint gonna be Snickers bars, I'll tell you that."

[shaggy eel]

the snakes came into the city illegally

,,, looking for jobs.

[HAL9000]

Update - Box of deadly snakes found near Clinton Library to get new home in Texas