Some idiot in Texas got bit and killed by his pet Cobra, now snake is on the loose..
 

Texas police still seek cobra believed to have bitten, killed man - CBS News

So they found this guy dead in a Austin Home Depot parking lot with a bite mark on his hand. He was transporting a deadly Cobra snake along with some other shit. The snake is missing and on the lam..

I'm trying to feel sorry for him ................. Nope can't do it.


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Yea.. I could understand if it was at some zoo or something like that whom had a poisonous snake like this, but wtf is just a normal dude doing owning a snake like that.

I know one thing, I wouldn't be shopping at that Home Depot until that thing was caught..

Cancelling my flight

i guess he was stupid enough to get bit and just sit there and die. i don't think that snake venom would instantaneously incapacitate an adult size male, seems odd he didn't try and help himself.

I'd assume he must of called 911 for them to already know that he was carrying the snake and that it bit him.

i didn't get that impression from the couple of articles i read.

According to Austin-Travis County EMS, crews responded to police welfare check request around 9:30 p.m. to the Lowe's parking lot in the 13000 block of the southbound Interstate 35 service road. Police found Grant Thompson of Temple unresponsive in his vehicle.

Thompson was pulled from the vehicle and appeared to have puncture wounds on the wrist.

Cobra unaccounted for after man dies from possible snakebite

That's pretty strange then, as it seems it takes a bit of time for the venom to kill a human. Like an hour or more according to Wikipedia.

suicide by snake?

Kill it before it lays eggs.

How long before the liberals start a snake control campaign?

Probably about as long as it takes the Coservatives to blame it on the illegals waiting for construction jobs in the Home Depot parking lot

He was stupid enough to not have the anti-venom.

http://www.snake-antivenin.com/sites...gus-hannah.jpg

pair of pliers rip his fangs out :2 cents::2 cents:

Assumption is what separates crockett science from real science.

Seems to work.

Once again, a baddog drive by with nothing added to the topic.. Someone should put the poor old dog down, he's in such misery..

I have learned to keep it simple when you are involved.

I was at Home Depot today.

Thankfully there are about 50 in Austin.

Found a picture of baddog posting on GFY..


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/201...gshaming-1.jpg

"pet cobra"

The fifty+ people who told the guy to choose a different pet are now all saying "I told ya so"


to no one in particular, since, you know, the guy is dead.

it was a teenage pet store worker

How many hours it does take for a Cobra venom to kill a human?

The Idiots are taking over!!

Thats pet not play with it

Can take da snake out da jungle but ya can't take the jungle out da snake. :2 cents:

Innocent animals always have to die for humans stupidity. Really, our race is just idiotic sometimes.

News story said his family owned the exotic pet store. The cobra was a pet snake at his home. Before he died he posted to Facebook, saying: "I'm sorry"...

called it.

Let us all take a moment to pray that the cobra doesn't die from hiv or some other horrible disease it may have come in contact with escaping from this asshole! :thumbsup

Nice pic - He seems so happy-go-unlucky... :upsidedow

:1orglaugh i snickered.

They found the snake - it had apparently enrolled at U of Texas and joined a Frat.

http://unspokenpictures.com/wp-conte...obra-snake.jpg

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I watched a documentary a while back about a guy whose job is to basically deal with all the exotic, strange pets people buy then can't handle like big cats, bears, snakes etc. It was shocking not just how many people had very poisonous and dangerous snakes, but how many people just let them go when they couldn't take care of them. In one case he got called to house because some kids were playing with a big snake that wandered into their garage. The snake turned out to be a puff adder, one of the most dangerous snakes in the world.

It died by being a snake in the road when a car comes along.

Found it.


http://www.cobracountry.com/cobra4sa...1a-640x384.jpg

WOW that's nice!

Lucky guess? They are now investigating this as a possible suicide..

What a car!

i put a little thought into it, it wasn't all luck. :1orglaugh

When I was 11 or 12 I told my dad I wanted a Cobra when I grew up; his responses was that I could not afford the insurance on one.

It has only gotten worse since 1964/1965

Interesting way to do it.