Quote Originally Posted by Julius Marvelous Rain
Quote Originally Posted by LEGION
Well the cobra doesn't win for sure, as its mouth is sewed shut and the fangs are probably cut out, as is typical in that part of the world. People make money off tourists doing that, and that particular practice is banned in alot of the country, as it is inhumane..

But those people need money so practices like that will always go on. We were debating about that video on a reptile forum a few months ago. Funny, the little bit of money they might make will probably need to be used to take the baby to the doctor after handling that wild animal, with salmonella being a risk to handling reptiles from the wild, and also being that the animal was probably kept in a very moist, unclean basket. And not to mention the germs from the kid crawling around on the ground.

Idiots. I would have paid alot of money for that particular cobra, it is called a spectacled cobra{naja naja} and was one of the finest examples I've seen. Too bad actually.
Impressive bro, you really know your snakes. This is one of the craziest things I've seen, i just hope the parents know what their doing sending their baby out to play with deadly cobras.

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CC #235 back to you Rain

Yeah, the parents know what they're doing, if they didn't that kid would be dead and the parents jailed or even executed for doing some sh#t like that with a "normal" cobra. Like I said, that snakes mouth is at the least sewed shut, and very likely the fangs are yanked out, which will kill the animal within a months time.
99.9% of the time a cobra will not strike you without 1st hooding up, which is a threat disply and telling you to back off. Though venom is easily and quickly renewed after a strike, cobras tend to know instinctually that it is wasting their resources to inject venom and would rather use the venom for prey. But make no mistake, if that one in the video had the ability to open its mouth, it would have flooded that kid several times with venom, and that would have been that!!
Here's a video of a guy in Thailand who did this trick one too many times and died last year if rumours be true. These snakes he used did not have their fangs yanked nor their mouths sewed shut. He had balls of steel to do this, but my understanding is that he took a hit from a King Cobra in the face, and that's as bad a place to take a hit from one, as the venom quickly gets to the nervous system and, well, lights out I don't do this sh#t with mine. RIP for that dude. At least he died doing what he wanted

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzFxHr4t4mY