Solidly in the "HOLY CRAP" File... shiver

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SAfrican couple drives 170km with spitting cobra in car
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A couple drove 170 kilometres (100 miles) from South Africa's famous Kruger National Park with a highly venomous spitting cobra in their car, the Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Gordon Parratt, 69, felt the 85-centimetre (33-inch) long snake wind itself around his leg while he was driving.

At first he thought an insect had brushed his leg and swiped it away, but when he looked down he saw the snake next to his left foot, the report said.

"Fortunately I'm not the panicky type. My wife immediately put her feet up on the dashboard," said Parratt.

The Pretoria couple made several stops to remove the snake but could not find it, until it wrapped itself around Parratt's leg.

"Its head came up to my knee," he said.

Finally the couple managed to call a snake expert to remove the cobra, the report said
 
O M G !!!!!!!! I would have freakin flipped out and screamed until I passed out. Bugs, snakes....I'm outta there!
 
You should see some of the snakes I used to ride with... a Cobra's nut'n!

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Yeah Boss I know what you mean -some of the snakes I 've come into contact with even had legs and different names .lol
Teresa
 
lol lol lol
 
I'm okay with bugs... lizards and the like. I don't care how many legs it has as long as there is at least one.

That car could have been in the ditch and I'd be dead, and not from the snake bite.

V
 
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Make that man an airplane pilot immediately! Nerves of steel, what an asset.
 
I think i would have just froze and said something like

" get it off get it off get it off get it off" in a high shrill voice, expecting a super hero to come to my rescue...

Yeah, V, i would be in the ditch with you i think...
 
Just goes to show you how much we have in common ,the ditch would be full lollollol.There's another good reason to come to Ireland as St Patrick cleared the place of snakes ages ago so we're a snake free zone .Flowerchatters especially welcome to come to the Emerald Isle and join the party for Paddys Day . I promise we'll look after you .Green is great .
Teresa
 
Really Teresa?? Shooot, I 'm there!
 
Well you know what they say "All work and no play .... " ,I think we work too hard sometimes Aileen so we deserve a little fun now and again .Would we get time for fun though ?I'd say we just talk and talk flowers all the time .
Teresa
 
I don't mind if I'm working in Ireland for my vacation!! Wouldn't be a prob for me!!
 
Ok so meet you at Shannon (the airport not our Shannon on FC lollollol)
Teresa
 
I'm actually working towards visiting Ireland again. :) It's a wonderful place.

V
 
Iris Eyes said:
Just goes to show you how much we have in common ,the ditch would be full lollollol.There's another good reason to come to Ireland as St Patrick cleared the place of snakes ages ago so we're a snake free zone .Flowerchatters especially welcome to come to the Emerald Isle and join the party for Paddys Day . I promise we'll look after you .Green is great .
Teresa
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Will you take me to Clane so I can finish my Kelly's genealogy and then to wherever the Whirty Family is??? (somewhere in Ireland?)
 
I think I would have screamed so loud that the snake would have exploded (like the bird in Shrek...when Fiona sang). I definitely would have been in the ditch with you all...or at least on the side of the road having jumped from the moving car.
 
Too funny!!!
 
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