Thursday, June 01, 2006
Spitting black cobras ... and 10 foot barge pole is suddenly on hand
It's amazing how items we need suddenly become available when we really need them.
You remember watching road runner cartoons and the wiley coyote always seems to have the latest roadrunner killing technology at hand despite living in a desert.
(Thanks to a mail order membership from Acme)
Anyway.. This afternoon my helper came across a rare black spitting cobra doing its thing slithering about on the ground floor outside stairwell.
Naturally it caused her much consternation as - well the creature is extremely poisionous and can kill you quite quickly.. first by rendering you unconscious and then ... well i am not too sure - but the end result is your death.
I was upstairs working and making up with my boyfriend via msn - so I was multi-tasked out at the time - so didnt respond to her call right away.
When I did go downstairs, I found a very dead cobra with its head smashed in in the garden outside - a 10 foot pole rammed into the back of its head.
The funny thing is I have never seen the pole before and it amazed me that in a life and death situation things like that just seem to be available -- They are never available when its just a normal non-life threatening situaiton - like when you need a pair of scissors to open the washing powder box or a can opener for the tin of soup... Usually then u have to resort to improvising with a knife or something - and then you end up stabbing yourself in the hand and risk bleeding to death - but life's like that......
You remember watching road runner cartoons and the wiley coyote always seems to have the latest roadrunner killing technology at hand despite living in a desert.
(Thanks to a mail order membership from Acme)
Anyway.. This afternoon my helper came across a rare black spitting cobra doing its thing slithering about on the ground floor outside stairwell.
Naturally it caused her much consternation as - well the creature is extremely poisionous and can kill you quite quickly.. first by rendering you unconscious and then ... well i am not too sure - but the end result is your death.
I was upstairs working and making up with my boyfriend via msn - so I was multi-tasked out at the time - so didnt respond to her call right away.
When I did go downstairs, I found a very dead cobra with its head smashed in in the garden outside - a 10 foot pole rammed into the back of its head.
The funny thing is I have never seen the pole before and it amazed me that in a life and death situation things like that just seem to be available -- They are never available when its just a normal non-life threatening situaiton - like when you need a pair of scissors to open the washing powder box or a can opener for the tin of soup... Usually then u have to resort to improvising with a knife or something - and then you end up stabbing yourself in the hand and risk bleeding to death - but life's like that......
# posted by Karen @ 11:11 PM 
