Trouser snake kills Cambodian man

[Squatch]

:rofl:

Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian man who took off his trousers, tied the legs at the bottom and wrangled a 2-metre cobra into them died when it bit him through the fabric, local media reported Monday.


Khmer-language daily Koh Santepheap quoted police as saying Chab Kear, 36, saw the reptile swimming in a river just outside the capital last Thursday during a drinking session and captured it in the hopes of selling it later in the day.


He tied the animal inside his trousers and a scarf around his waist, but as he continued carousing the enraged snake managed to get its fangs free and bite Kear three times on the stomach.


The newspaper reported Kear's last words as being "don't worry - it's nothing a drink can't fix" before he succumbed to the cobra's venom. (Bwahahaha :rofl:)

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[NYVet]

1. Darwin award nominee?? (NT)

[shadowknows69]

4. I'd second that nom

famous last words indeed.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. So, they have their share of "Hey, fellers! Watch this!" Bubbas in Cambodia, too.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Trouser snakes are long known for getting men into trouble.

[CT_Progressive]

8. Someone forward this post to Larry Craig.

:rofl:

[terisan]

5. I'd laugh but it seems like a metaphor for dem hopes for the 2006 election. Bush being the snake nt

[ccpup]

6. out of respect for the dead

I'll continue discreetly giggling into my hand over the sentence "trouser snake kills man" instead of spewing my coffee over my keyboard like I usually do.

Man, those trouser snakes will get you every damn time!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. ow, that must be so painful, poor man.

[Botany]

9. Famous Last Words

The newspaper reported Kear's last words as being "don't worry - it's nothing a drink can't fix"
before he succumbed to the cobra's venom.

[liberal N proud]

10. Who write this stuff?

A trouser snake?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Vidar]

11. If kharma holds, he could be reincarnated as a pissed off cobra.

[SidDithers]

12. K&R for the title alone ...

:hi:

Sid

[Squatch]

13. Thankya, kindly!

[Javaman]

14. Monster in my pants...

Monster

I saw it officer,
it looked prehistoric ...

There's a monster in my pants
And it does a nasty dance
When it moves in and out
Everybody starts to shout

Monster, aaaah monster, aaaah
Get outta here monster!
Monster! Monster!
Get outta here monster!

There's a monster in my pants
And It does a nasty dance
When it sees the light of day
You can here the people say

Oh no, a monster! Oh no, a monster!
Oh no, oh no, oh no a giant monster
Monster! Monster!
Oh no, a giant monster!

Shut the window, bolt the door!
Don't wanna see that monster no more!

There's a monster in my pants
And it does a modern dance
When it comes into a room
People hit it with a broom

Take that monster! Take that monster!
Take it! Take it! Take that you awful thing!
Take that aaah! Take that aaah!
Take it! Take it! Take that you naughty thing!

And they don't wear pants on the other side of France
But they do wear fleece to protect them from the beasts

Monster! Monster! Oh gee, a great big monster

There's a monster on the run and it wants to have have some fun
When it flies hup in the air, all the people stop and stare
The guys give a yell and the girls start to shriek
When they see its giant claws and it razor sharp beak

Gosh would you look at that thing
And I thought dinosaurs were extinct

Aaaaah!

[htuttle]

15. "Here, hold my Ruou Thot Not and watch this!"

If there's anything that unites the human race, it's our capacity for stupidity...

[depakid]

16. Reminds me of the kid who stole a Gaboon viper from the National Zoo

Louis Morton had just exited a Washington bus with two of the highly venomous snakes in a plastic bag slung over his shoulder when he felt the bite. The bus driver radioed for help and antivenom was subsequently rushed to the capital from zoos up and down the Eastern seaboard. The 16-yearold was off the critical list by the weekend. The police planned to ask him how the deadly snakes got from the National Zoo and into his possession.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E5DE1F39F933A25757C0A965948260&n=Top%2FNews%2FScience%2FTopics%2FSnakes

What is it about people that they can't just leave poisonous snakes alone?