Posted on 09/30/2007 9:51:12 PM PDT by killjoy
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.
A Cambodian Trouser Snake
Was pulled from a dirty brown lake
Bit the guy in his thigh
As he said with a sigh
My girl said my own was a fake!
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ROTFLMAO
Reads like the lost verse of my second favorite Dr. Hook song.
How did I miss your post before? I guess I was still on my first coffee. (See #40 at 5:05 AM ET)
Darwin Awards in KH? I always thought that's why Michael Hayes ran The Police Blotter in every issue of the PP Post. Unbelieveable the stuff I've read there, not to mention what I personaly saw when I lived in Phnom Penh.
From a family of 5 riding on a single Honda Dream or Sangyang 85cc moto, to the thief who confidently swipes a moto from Psah Tuol Tom Pong at 12 noon (and is instantly stopped and beaten to death by a crowd of 25 people), Darwin Awards were a daily feature of PP life.
How about the guy who tossed a couple grenades into the front room of a well-known Western-owned guest house, then sat on the sidewalk until the "Flying Tigers" arrived moments later and shot him dead? Or the meth dealers who started an afternoon shootout with the PP Police on Plou Sihanouk by Psah Lucky, the holed-up in a nearby storefront until the police finally tossed a few grenades into the shop and did them in? The FUNCINPEC soldiers selling their M-16s to foreigners for $75 to $100? The midnight AK battles in front of the Allston Hotel on Monivong?
That's just the tip of the iceberg, everyday life in PP when I was there.
Too bad I arrived just after the mayor had declared it illegal to walk around downtown PP with an AK hanging from your shoulder.
Make that best headline of the year
Isn’t Thighland near Chapaquickdick?
Slings, Martin, what about the Industrial Strength Humor ping list?
Never did he make a worse mistake
Down his pants, stuffed a cobra to take
Once bitten, he did think
He'd be cured by a drink.
Yes, he died from his *own* trouser snake!
ROFLOL!!!!
Um.
Rapidly choke it. With both hands if necessary.
It would seem he caught teh gheyz. :P
In competition for headline of the new millenium.
It is probably advisable to use an actual belt, rather than a scarf, to hold up your pants when walking about with a trouser snake.
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