Man Bites Snake to Death

Man Bites Snake to Death

In an interesting twist of event, a cobra, known for its poisonous bite, was bitten to death by a person.

A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake subsequently bit the snake to death, a local Nepali newspaper reported on Thursday, August 23.

After being bitten by the snake, which was identified as cobra, while he was working in his rice paddy on Tuesday, the 55-year-old farmer named Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, caught it and bit it until it died, the Annapurna Post reported, according to Reuters.

"I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry," Miya was quoted as saying.

Miya, who lives in a village some 125 miles or 200 kilometers southeast of the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, was receiving treatment at a village health post at the time of the news report and was not in danger of dying from his snakebite. He will not be charged with killing the snake, a local police official said, because cobras which are called "goman" in Nepal, are not listed as endangered in the country.  Thus, Miya is free to go and he became somehow a local celebrity for his act of biting the poisonous snake to death.

This could be a record: a poisonous snake has died of man bite.

Posted by James Fried on Friday August 24 2012, 6:47 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0