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Farmer Bites Snake to Death

Fangs a lot, says cobra

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 24, 2012 12:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – That's one gutsy farmer. A Nepalese man bitten by a cobra in his rice paddy turned the tables on the creature and repeatedly bit the snake. "A snake charmer told me that if a snake bites you, bite it until it is dead and nothing will happen to you," Mohammed Salmodin explained to the BBC. Salmodin has been released from a local hospital after treatment. The snake is dead. Don't try Salmodin's stunt at home. There are some 20,000 cobra bites in Nepal each year, resulting in close to 1,000 deaths

Fangs a lot, says cobra.
Fangs a lot, says cobra.   (Wikipedia)
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HANKHILL
Aug 25, 2012 12:12 PM CDT
did it work? i want to see myth busters try it!
Aitchondo
Aug 24, 2012 3:27 PM CDT
From my experience, it must not have been either a King Cobra or a Krait. I might be wrong but I can't remember anyone I heard of surviving one of their bites. Probably not a King Cobra anyway since most of the time they kill other snakes including cobras and eat them. Anyway, ain't enough beer in India to make me want to bite a cobra of any kind.
Reader38
Aug 24, 2012 8:24 AM CDT
The Honey Badger has already proven this to be true.  Honey Badger don't care.
 

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