Cobra on the loose in Raleigh

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In all seriousness, that is scary as heck in a suburban neighborhood
 
Blaze said:
We have some good friends who live there. I'm sure they are worried, haven't talked to them yet today.
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Maybe you should do a wellness check.
 
A neighbor if mine at my old house was a crazy snake person and this exact thing was my biggest fear. She was an exotic reptile rescuer and she kept a lot of the crazy mess she "rescued". Woman had 2 or 3 king cobras, a little anaconda, a baby alligator, an albino copper head and a pygmy rattlesnake. When they moved in my wife told me something was weird about them, she had seen them moving in a bunch of glass cages. I was deathly afraid that a tree would fall on that house and a while gaggle of snakes would escape. I was a little hopped up on sauce one evening talking to her husband in the driveway. She knew I didn't like those snakes and she walked over to aggravate me a little with a python she had just gotten. I told her that folks like her should have to register with the county so first responders like myself know wtf were getting into in an emergency. It should be criminal for their house to catch on fire and we bust up in there to put the fire out and unknowingly knock over a tank and get bit by some deadly snake. She thought I was joking and said, for real though, what would you do if my house caught on fire. I told her dead serious, I'd stand outside with a shotgun and make sure nothing escaped... She said, what if I came running out carrying one of my snakes?! I said, I'd shoot your ass too! She didn't talk to me for a month after that :lol:
 
I had a friend into exotic snakes in the 80s. He had a bunch of them. He sold lots of tobacco and had large parties about every other weekend. At one party he wanted to show everybody his new badass snake. I think it was mamba or a cobra about 2'. He put the snake in a grass basket in a 55 gallon drum w wood chips in the bottom. He bred rats/food for his snakes and he dropped one in the barrel to show us how fast the snake would kill it. A bunch of us surrounded the barrel watching the snake but nothing happened for about 5 minutes, the snake didn't move and the rat barely moved. Then the snake started to move slowly towards the rat. When the snake was about to strike it that rat jumped about 3' high and came down and bit the snakes neck/head and held on as the snake twisted all around. The rat killed his expensive snake and he was not happy at all w all the teasing from us.
 
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awheelterd said:
If people are allowed to have non-native venomous or crushing snakes as pets, why can't I own a machine gun without a stamp? This world is so backwards.
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I've been advocating for recreational nuclear warheads for well over a year now.
 
Man, this is a crazy story. My Father in law used to breed boas. I have always been deathly afraid of snakes, so you can imagine the first time I met my in laws, of coarse he takes me upstairs to his snake room. This dude had the entire room lined with cages from floor to ceiling all filled with snakes. Now, I know Boas aren't venomous, but they will wrap themselves around you quick and stuff to constrict. I can't tell you how many times he was bitten and constricted and had a hell of a time getting them to uncoil. He made really good money from breeding these boas and was the 4th person in the world to hatch a Sunglow boa, which is pretty cool I guess.

Needless to say, I had a hard time being at there house the first couple of times I was there.
 
Cherokeekid88 said:
Man, this is a crazy story. My Father in law used to breed boas. I have always been deathly afraid of snakes, so you can imagine the first time I met my in laws, of coarse he takes me upstairs to his snake room. This dude had the entire room lined with cages from floor to ceiling all filled with snakes. Now, I know Boas aren't venomous, but they will wrap themselves around you quick and stuff to constrict. I can't tell you how many times he was bitten and constricted and had a hell of a time getting them to uncoil. He made really good money from breeding these boas and was the 4th person in the world to hatch a Sunglow boa, which is pretty cool I guess.

Needless to say, I had a hard time being at there house the first couple of times I was there.
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Have you ever told him that his daughter was good at handling snakes too....
 
Loganwayne said:
hold on folks this aint your normal run of the mill cobra this is a 5ft death spitting cobra. This sob can hit you in the eyes from 6.5 ft away.
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It's a good time to be a guy with glasses.
 
RatLabGuy said:
It's a good time to be a guy with glasses.
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I remember Steve Irwin wearing sunglasses when he was messing with a cobra. “You’re a grumpy boy…”
 
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