Posted on 09/21/2004 8:41:32 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Austrian man sees off police with cobras ... and gets bitten
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VIENNA (AFP) - An Austrian man chased off policemen who had come to arrest him with two cobras, before being bitten himself by one of his venomous snakes, police in the southern city of Leoben said.
The mentally unstable unemployed man of 40, who owned more than 50 venomous snakes, had holed himself up after threatening to kill himself by allowing the serpents to bite him.
"When we broke down his door, accompanied by a doctor and a snake handler, he chased us down the stairwell brandishing two venomous cobras," said one policeman, Franz Moisi.
The man was bitten by one of the cobras after retreating police shot him in the leg to stop his advance. He is now in hospital in a critical state.
"We were in danger of death," Moisi told AFP. "Pepper spray had no effect on either the man or the cobras."
Unemployment benefits in Austria must be pretty substantial. Cobras aren't cheap.
Don't bring a cobra to a gunfight.
Maybe they didn't like that pepper spray and that's why they bit the goof, lol!
Wimpy Cobras!!! Just TRY and get by me and my pet Scorpions!!!
True enough.
I was lucky enough to attend a 'fight of the century' between a humongous hunting spider and a scorpion in the boondocks of Belize a few years back. The spider had a leg spread (front to back) of at least 5" and the scorpion was about 4" long and black. At the big event, we place the two jars together and slid out the cardboard - the scorpion trashed the spider in seconds. All the spider did was run around and gesticulate 'No mas! No mas!' until the scorpion had done it's sewing machine imitation on it about 20 times.
Scorpions are the true bad boys of the insect world.
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