Trouser snake kills Cambodian man

Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian man who took off his trousers, tied the legs at the bottom and wrangled a 2-metre cobra into them died when it bit him through the fabric, local media reported Monday.

Khmer-language daily Koh Santepheap quoted police as saying Chab Kear, 36, saw the reptile swimming in a river just outside the capital last Thursday during a drinking session and captured it in the hopes of selling it later in the day.

He tied the animal inside his trousers and a scarf around his waist, but as he continued carousing the enraged snake managed to get its fangs free and bite Kear three times on the stomach.

The newspaper reported Kear's last words as being "don't worry - it's nothing a drink can't fix" before he succumbed to the cobra's venom.

From the Bangkok Post today.

Wise words before he died. Must have been something he eat that killed him.

Double entendres in the Bangkok Post? Very funny! Surely a darwin award nominee!

How's the Snake doing?

How's the Snake doing?

It has a hangover but it will be ok.

How's the Snake doing?

It has a hangover but it will be ok.

Is it insured for trauma?

If I got stuffed down any blokes trousers (nationality unimportant) I'd bite something first and then look for compensation.

Sounds like the voice of experience Thaddy ?

Only as an eye-witness and then with ferrets.... they have some odd habits in my place of origin.

If I got stuffed down any blokes trousers (nationality unimportant) I'd bite something first and then look for compensation.

Sounds like the voice of experience Thaddy ?

If, Thaddy tried to get his head into my trousers one drunken night. I didn't bite, though I may have smacked him about a bit.

Only as an eye-witness and then with ferrets.... they have some odd habits in my place of origin.

Norwich?

Only as an eye-witness and then with ferrets.... they have some odd habits in my place of origin.

Norwich?

No, that was Nicolas Parson's. I suppose he was kinda like a posh talking ferret though