“Cobras generally do not bite unless they are highly provoked. And after 8 p.m. they’re generally dormant,” a police inspector in India said.
To kill his wife with a cobra, the man he was investigating had to push the snake’s fangs into her arm and “milk” its venom into her, after knocking her out with sedatives.
To convict him, the police set up “an experiment to demonstrate whether a cobra would strike a sleeping person.” A cobra “was thrown on a bed with a mannequin at night. The video shows the snake slithering away several times and only biting into a chicken breast tied to a limb when repeatedly provoked.”
They brought in a champion snake-catcher (the guy in the photo below) to testify. “He told the court that during his 30-year career he had been bitten … 340 times by cobra,” and has only minor wear and tear from it (he lost part of a finger and can’t rotate a wrist).
I don’t care. No snakes for me! No thanks. The World Health Organization says, “Snakebite deaths are not rare in India, with 1.2 million such fatalities from 2000 to 2019.” That’s almost 3x as many people as India has lost to Covid-19, albeit over a long time period.
To be completely safe, I avoid unvaccinated people and anti-maskers, too.
Read story here.
Photo below: I don’t care how docile cobras are after 8 p.m., or any other time. You won’t see me doing this. I’m too squeamish.
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