All bite and no Venom
One day, 8-year-old Deepak was playing in the backyard of his home in the village of Pandarpadh in Western India. Suddenly, he ran into an unwelcome visitor. An unidentified species of cobra had slithered into the yard. As Deepak unknowingly disturbed the snake, it decided to attack. According to local media, the cobra lunged at Deepak and coiled itself around his arm. Then, it sank its fangs into his hand. “The snake got wrapped around my hand and bit me. I was in great pain,” Deepak said. He tried to shake the snake off his arm, but it wouldn’t budge. So, Deepak did the only thing that seemed logical to an 8-year-old. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a bite for a bite. Twice, Deepak bit down hard on the snake. He must’ve hit a sensitive spot because the cobra soon dropped down dead. “It all happened in a flash,” the boy recalled.
Once he was free of the snake, Deepak told his parents what had happened. His family rushed him to a nearby hospital for emergency care. “He was quickly administered snake antivenom and kept under observation for the entire day and discharged,” said Dr. Jemps Minj, a medical officer at the hospital. Better safe than sorry, but there wouldn’t have been any need for the antivenom. Deepak didn’t exhibit any symptoms of envenomation and went home no worse for wear. But why didn’t the snake squirt out any venom? According to Dr. Minj, this kind of snake attack is called a dry bite. “Deepak didn’t show any symptoms and recovered fast owing to the dry bite when the [venomous] snake strikes but no venom is released,” he explained. “Such snakebites are painful and may show only local symptoms around the area of the bite.” Indeed, venomous snakes don’t always deliver venom to the bite victim. Most of the time they, but if you get lucky, you can get off easy. According to LiveScience, people get bitten by snakes about 5.4 million times every year. Out of these bites, 2.7 million inject venom, causing 138,000 deaths annually. People tend to panic and misidentify the snake that bit them, thinking it’s a venomous one when it’s not. Additionally, even dry bites can be dangerous. They can cause serious infection, which could be mistaken for envenomation. Bizarrely, Deepak isn’t the only kid who has bitten back during a snake attack. Just a couple of months ago, a similar scene happened in Turkey. On August 10, a 2-year-old girl was playing in the Turkish village of Kantar. Suddenly, the neighbors heard her screaming in her backyard. When the neighbors came to see what was wrong, the sight that awaited them took them by surprise. The girl had a bit mark on her lower lip — and a dead 20-inch-long snake between her teeth. She had been playing when the snake showed up. She had tried to involve the reptile in her games, but it decided to attack the girl instead. Or maybe she was just as lucky as Deepak.
Hiss terical puns
Do you know? a King Cobra’s venom can kill an elephant.
Thank God I am not an elephant.
I used to be jealous of Harry Potter for being able to talk to snakes.
But it turns out I’ve been doing it for years.
An old snake is feeling his age. “Doc, I need something for my eyes…can’t see well these days”. The Doc fixes him up with a pair of glasses and tells him to return in 2 weeks.
The snake comes back in 2 weeks and tells the doctor he’s very depressed.
Doc asks, “What’s the problem…didn’t the glasses help you?”
“The glasses are fine, doc. I just discovered I’ve been living with a garden hose the past 2 years!”
You know “Russian Roulette,” but how many of you have heard about Indian Roulette?
They give you a flute and six large deadly cobras.
November 18th Birthdays
1992 – Hayley Law, 1984 – Nayantara, 1962 – Jodie Foster, 1980 – Megyn Kelly
1992 – Nathan Kress, 1981 – Matthew Baynton, 1987 – Daymon Wayans, 1968- Owen Wilson