Idiots. Why the hell should people be allowed to keep a non-native, highly posinous snake?

It will be looking for a warm body to snuggle up to tonight

Issue everybody in that neighborhood a long handled garden hoe.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
Mongeeses?

They hate mongeeses to pieces!

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
A 2 foot long snake could be really hard to find.

That's what she said...

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Originally posted by entropy:
Marlin Perkins: "While Jim hunts the ferocious cobra, I'll get a better vantage point from inside the Waffle House."

Bawawawahah!

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:

...If anyone sees the snake, they should remain at a safe distance...

I'll just wait here in northern Illinois until they catch the little fucker.

Me too!
Every once and a while, living here does have its perks.

Someone gonna soil their shorts...

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
someone is going to get a surprise

and the owner should be billed for the costs in the search

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:

...If anyone sees the snake, they should remain at a safe distance...

I'll just wait here in northern Illinois until they catch the little fucker.

Me too!
Every once and a while, living here does have its perks.

Well in two weeks all the non-natives go north, I'll be sure to send the Cobra up with one of the Illinois Nazis heading north.

What are the legal ramifications if I call the number after I chop the cobra into a hundred pieces with my long handled garden hoe.

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If anyone sees the snake, they should remain at a safe distance and immediately call the FWC’s Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-3922 or *FWC or #FWC on cell phones.

Translated-"if you see that son of of b&$@h, call us after you shoot his a$$!"

Something similar happened in Richmond, VA, mid 90's.

Guy had several venomous snakes, and was attempting to pull the eyecaps off his cobra, because when it shed, the skin didn't come off the eyes. So he used tweezers.

He ended up getting life flighted to VCU, and had something like 37 vials of anti-venin injected. Plus he had to pay for the helicopter ride.

It's been awhile, but I think his bill was around $37,000.

An expensive lesson in stupidity.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
What are the legal ramifications if I call the number after I chop the cobra into a hundred pieces with my long handled garden hoe.

Nothing. "Officer, I found the missing Cobra. Some sick bastard chopped it into a hundred pieces and threw it on my lawn. Can you come clean up the mess?"

Ok, I thought there was another loose Cobra in Florida in the past. It was in 2015 and was a King Cobra.

Missing king cobra snake found under dryer near Orlando

http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...er-near-orlando.html

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Originally posted by RichardC:
A Taurus Judge for EDC doesn't seem so silly now.

Yeah, I was thinking if that happened to me, I'd be walking around with a 12 gauge.

Pfft, everyone knows Cobras come in 40 ouncers, not 2 lbrs.

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Originally posted by olfuzzy:
Ok, I thought there was another loose Cobra in Florida in the past. It was in 2015 and was a King Cobra.

Missing king cobra snake found under dryer near Orlando

http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...er-near-orlando.html

Ok, that big scary bastard warrants a 10mm, who the fuck would want a super venomous and pissed off snake that's as thick as Hillary's kankles and 8 ft long?

I'm still laughing over the visual of pecking at a venomous snake with tweezers.

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Originally posted by Wayniac:
Temperatures here are dropping into the 30s for the next 2 nights, and into the 20s on Thursday. If this critter is outside, he may not survive.

Time for Floridians to put away the shorts and flip flops.
 

A "google" search of "florida escape cobra" gave 521,000 hits. There's a lot of duplication, but on the first two pages, separate incidents in September of 2015, November of 2015, and August 2016 popped up. That's a hint that maybe Floridians should give up that particular hobby.