You thought you had a bad day at the office last week? Not compared to this guy you didn’t.
An African cobra capable of projecting its venom 10 feet sank its fangs into the finger of a 26-year-old local pet store employee Friday, an accident that tapped a little-known store of antivenin at the Houston Zoo.
The nonfatal incident was the third bite delivered by a poisonous snake this year in Harris County, which, other than the city of Houston, has no prohibitions against selling, breeding or keeping dangerous reptiles, according to local experts and a county animal control official.
The other two bites were inflicted by snakes in the wild.
The employee, whose name was not disclosed, was cleaning out a display case Friday morning at Pets-A-Plenty The Ultimate Reptile Shop at Texas 6 and Bellaire when a red spitting cobra attacked.
Man. And all I have to worry about is getting offshored.
Thankfully, the bite was dry, meaning no venom was discharged, and the employee is doing well. But still. That’s gotta suck.
Well, you see…what happened was….
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Well, you see…what happened was….
Some things to ponder as I linger over my coffee early on a lazy Sunday morning: Jo Fish gives us yet another good reason to hang Saddam Hussein’s inert body on a pike in the village square: the attack on the USS Stark (FFG-31) in 1987.Chuck Kuffner t…
It doesn’t suck. It bites. 😉
Does this guy get a raise for hazardous duty?
There will be calls to ban the sale of the animals, and such a ban is the likely outcome. But that is not the solution. The solution is not to put people doing stuff they’re not trained for or that they don’t take seriously.