Posted on 05/25/2008 11:59:28 AM PDT by girlangler
UPDATE: Deadly Snake Still Missing In Onslow County Save Email Print
Deadly Snakes On The Loose Deadly Snakes Still Missing
There has been no progress toward catching the deadly snake that's on the loose in Onslow County.
A resident on Mill Farms Road, that's off Piney Green Road, saw a Monocled Cobra under her back deck earlier this week.
Officials said they believed the snake was released by a group trying to raise awareness in making it illegal for people to own exotic animals.
But the public relations director for the Animal Protection Institute says her organization had nothing to do with the snake release.
Officials say they found a flyer indicating someone lost two cobras, while Thursday night just one was spotted by the resident.
Officials warn these snakes can be deadly with one bite. They urge you to stay away if you see these snakes and immediately call authorities.
Thursday's Story
Officials say the two Monocled Cobras on the loose in Onslow County may have been dumped there by an animal rights group pushing for a ban on exotic animals.
The two cobras are believed to be near Mill Farms Road off Piney Green Road in Onslow County.
Officials say they found a flyer indicating someone lost the two cobras. They believe the snakes were placed there by the group Animal Protection Institute to raise awareness in making it illegal for people to own exotic animals.
In an e-mail to WITN News, Animal Protection Institute public relations director Zibby Wilder said her organization had nothing to do with the snake release.
Wilder says this is yet another example of why North Carolina needs to regulate ownership of dangerous wild animals. "Obviously this is a hoax perpetrated by someone upset about pending legislation that we are involved in," Wilder said in her e-mail to WITN.
Officials warn these snakes can be deadly with one bite. They urge you to stay away if you see these snakes and immediately call authorities.
According to National Geographic, The most deadly serpent aboard fictional Pacific Air Flight 121 is the Monocled cobra. Like many venomous snakes, the cobra's poison affects its victim's central nervous system. But Monocled cobra venom is so powerful that the victim's immune system goes into hyperdrive and actually begins to break down organs and muscles. Death is almost instantaneous.
The Monocled cobra is named for the conspicuous design on its hood that can feature either one or two "eyes." The snake can grow up to 6.5 feet long and hunts mostly at night.
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There ought to be a movie.
I sure as hell hope they're not male and female! Criminy!!!
LOL!! Sure, that'll teach'em!
Hmm. A few weeks ago a zebra was found grazing along an Atlanta freeway. I think it had been injured but is on the mend. I did not hear if the owner ever was found.
Just days later a zebra was found wandering around a school building but that was an intentional prank.
But now this article makes me wonder about the original one.
This means McNut, Osama, and that woman love freak are out there.
campaigning for obama?
They should round up every PETA and AR freak within a radius of a hundred miles and make them search if they are so concerned about animals native to our country.
Am I the only one who is having real trouble following the rational here?
These kooks aren’t rational so it makes sense they would do something so utterly stupid. They ought to make these PETA type freaks conduct the search. Barefoot. Armed with nothing but a burlap bag.
I just hope an innocent person isn’t harmed because of these fools.
Uh...two? ...were they a male and a female...?
If true these deadly cobras were released to “make a statement”, and the “group” is named - they should be “targeted”.
Society has too long endured and suffered fools who NEED killin or incarceration for decades.
The venom is used to create anti-venom serums, and so is pretty valuable. Every once in awhile, the police will shut down an illegal venom milking operation, usually in one of the more rural parts of the country. This is northern Virginia we are talking about, so rural means you have an acre or two of land around your house.
If officials announced tomorrow that we had a breeding size population of monocled cobras (or some other exotic/dangerous species) loose in the county, it would come as no surprise to me.
Snakes under a porch!
Snakes under a mother. . .
Nevermind, it’d never work. . . (grin)
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I doubt that these animals would survive a winter in North Carolina if they even exist. So far, we have one person who claims to have seen one, but someone stoked with a little panic from a sensationalized news story could easily mistake a black rat snake for the cobra shown in the picture. The only thing that's been absolutely confirmed is that someone posted a flier saying that a couple of snakes had been lost. Anyone can download a few pictures from the web and photoshop a flier. I doubt that these animal rights freaks released real cobras. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the whole thing were a hoax perpetrated by the animal rights freaks.
I don't have a problem with a strong permitting system for anyone who wants to own venomous reptiles. I wouldn't want just any idiot with a checkbook to be able to own these animals in my neighborhood, but in reality, the permitting system rarely stops the worst offenders. I still find cobras less frightening than poorly raised children.
The sad thing is that so many people won't be able to see the difference between these high risk animals and the usual pet trade animals like king snakes, milk snakes, corn snakes, small python breeds, and boa constrictors. These small constrictors are less dangerous than most dog breeds and less of a threat to the environment than all house cats. The pythons and boas likely wouldn't survive in the wild in most of the United States. The others aren't genetically different enough from local natives to change the population in any discernible way.
Bill
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