Dave Parker played for the Yankees? Who knew?
Posted on 03/28/2011 12:09:59 PM PDT by Immerito
It's deadly, and it's out there, waiting.
That might sound like the trailer for a campy monster flick, but it's a real concern at New York's Bronx Zoo, where officials and staff are scrambling to find a deadly Egyptian cobra that slithered away from its home last Friday and hasn't been seen since.
The zoo's Reptile House remained closed Monday as a precaution while workers searched for the runaway reptile, a zoo spokeswoman confirmed to FoxNews.com.
While the roughly 20-inch-long Egyptian cobra -- armed with a massive dose of lethal venom that it injects into its victims -- has been unaccounted for since Friday afternoon, zoo officials say they're confident it hasn't gone far and isn't in a public area. Its enclosure was in an isolation area not open to visitors.
"To understand the situation, you have to understand snakes," zoo Director Jim Breheny said in an email Sunday.
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Sounds like the same guys at DHS who are "confident that no terrorism was involved", even before the smoke settles.
As long as they don’t have any planes, they should be OK.
Don’t worry there are a bunch of folks going around the Snake House calling “here, cobra buddy, here.”
"There are TWO kinds: Rattlesnakes and cobras. If it DOESN'T have rattles at the end of its tail then it's a cobra".
;-)
The cobra is probably going to die from exposure to the cold weather.
Definitely terrorism. I was recently at an aquarium among the usual family groups when here came four young, well-dressed Middle Eastern men. Hmmmmmm....p.s. there were deadly snakes at this aquarium. I really got the feeling they were looking for opportunities.
Dave Parker played for the Yankees? Who knew?
Over 50,000 die in alcohol-related traffic events, and we’re excited about finding a cobra that hasn’t struck anyone yet.
“The missing cobra is an adolescent of its hooded species....”
Great. A teenager with poisonous teeth has run away and is hiding. Probably sulking because he got grounded. No good can come of this. When he bites someone, it will be a cry for help and we will need grief counselors or some such.
Your dad forgot the deadliest snake—the dreaded progressive.
Honey Badger don’t give a #^**! (hat tip to Ace of Spades)
Of course then there would be a honey badger on the loose in the Bronx.
Oops! I’m sorry. When I read that a snake had escaped, I thought we were all talking about Obama sneaking out of the WhiteHouse...
...and NOBODY wants that.
Do they have rattles at the end of their tails?
No?
Cobras.
And there is the dilemma...
The Bronx Zoo has brought in a Free Range Chicken to handle this. The Free Range Chicken makes a nest out of Cobras.
Perhaps by escaping the cobra was just trying to get back to the “Hood!”
All thiings being equal, I think I’d rather face the cobra.
After all, the Honey Badger IS a bada$$ animal that just don’t give a sh!t.
According to a press agent the snake is just hiking the Adirondacks, however there are Internet rumors it was spotted wearing a hat and dark glasses while changing flights in Atlanta.
Cobras are a woman’s second bra?
Zebras are 25 sizes larger than A bras?
Don’t look too hard in the White House where it may have been carried.
Just leave it alone.
So who wins: Honey Badger or Chuck Norris?
its headed to the Catskills, boning up on snake/plane and egypt/de-nile material.
Did you see the Honey Badger video someone posted on here it was hilarious some gay guy was doing the commentary. I will see if I can find it I think it was a youtube video.
Janet Napolitano claims New York's Bronx Zoo has never been safer.
Was it the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga? They have a great collection of eastern North American snakes, both poisonous and no-poisonous.
That just scared the BEEGEEBIES OUT OF ME!!!!
Drench your keyboard with soap. You’re being horribly disrespectful to snakes by equating them with the Illegal. I, for one, will never call Moochelle a “b***h” out of great respect for the mothers of my two wonderful dogs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
You may find this more informative (NSFW at high volume) ;)
Cobras don't drive, so we should be okay.
Until the guy tells me otherwise in a video on Chuck Norris I’m going Honey Badger...
If your snake ever hides out in your typewriter and doesn't want to come out just aim your wife's hairdryer at the snake's tail, the snake will come out. This will also work for snakes in sofa springs.
This solution to one of life's little problems has been tested and proven!
Toonces does, though....so be careful.
I’d look at the snack bar. I hear cobras like burritos. Probably wash it down with a coke.
Oh, thath’s justh craaaaazyyyyy...
Remember that scene in “Death on the Nile?” Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is freshening up in the tiny bathroom in his cabin, and he notices a cobra inches from his leg. He taps out an SOS on the wall, and within seconds, David Niven arrives. After assessing the situation, Niven whips out his sword and impales the snake before it can strike. Hilarious movie.
Just follow the trail of dead bodies.
Should we stop all civilization until we eradicate all serpents?
Grow a pair.
P.S. Coal, Oil rig fires and electrical plant accidents kill more folks than cobras...
Do you feel silly there in your environmental utopia? You should.
Jack ass.
Have they checked the weather? Unless it’s indoors, or near a heat source, it’s dead.
Ah yes, the circle of life.
P.S. Coal, Oil rig fires and electrical plant accidents kill more folks than cobras...
nope cannot agree in India I read there are 10,000 people per year killed by cobras and that is just one country.
Notice that Drudge has a lede that says the snake “...remains on the crawl...”
I suspect they mean ‘slither’
It’s been so long since I’ve seen that movie I don’t recall that. I’ll have to watch for it on TMC.
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