Couch Cobra: Lady loses it when she realizes she’s lying on top of snake

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Sanook

 

PHETCHABURI: -- During family time in front of the television, a Thai woman freaked out when she realized she was lying on top of a cobra, who was hidden in her living room couch last night.

 

Kalayaporn Kaoplod, 48, said she was sitting on the sofa watching TV with her family at their Phetchaburi home yesterday. As she lay down, she felt something soft at her neck, moving under the blanket that covered the couch. She got up, removed the blanket, and lost it when she found out it was a meter-long cobra.

 

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I know they just put the price of electricity up but surely they could have turned the light on just to capture it !

Wife read this and asked me if I was out last night. 

Going to bed will never be the same for her :-)

poor lady ....  that would give anyone nightmares ....

I hear she's put up a GoFundMe page for a new pair of undies.

 

I'd have had to change mine...

 

One appeared in the open front doorway of our house one evening and my wife took off after it with a brush. The cobra made its escape but her shouting at it alerted neighbours who continued to hunt for it as there have been a few deaths nearby from cobra bites in the last couple of years. Others have been bitten and lived thanks to the close proximity of a hospital.

And don,t be fooled by size, newly hatched cobras are about 6" long, an eighth of an inch in diameter, incredibly cute looking but totally capable of killing an adult human !

A friend of mine in Min Buri last year found two baby cobras in his car port then three more the next day.All in all there were 18 in total over a weeks time.Call the snake people out and they pointed out the openings in his slab foundation of his house and that the mother was under his house.Poured new concrete around the base of the foundation and has had no more snakes this year.

5 hours ago, Bantex said:

One appeared in the open front doorway of our house one evening and my wife took off after it with a brush. The cobra made its escape but her shouting at it alerted neighbours who continued to hunt for it as there have been a few deaths nearby from cobra bites in the last couple of years. Others have been bitten and lived thanks to the close proximity of a hospital.

 

The Thais are claiming that the national total is about 10 a year (IIRC) Seems low. 

Edited May 24, 20179 yr by Craig krup

I would rather share my sofa with a cobra than some of the faces I see in reports today here on TV

7 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Wife read this and asked me if I was out last night. 

Probably thought one couldn't get that big

4 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

And don,t be fooled by size, newly hatched cobras are about 6" long, an eighth of an inch in diameter, incredibly cute looking but totally capable of killing an adult human !

Is that right? Thanx for the heads up, because during a family meal last night, i found one of the dogs playing with a baby snake with the exact description that you described.I lifted it over he wall and it was gone this morning.Fank thuck i did, if it was what you say it was.

 

Adolescent cobras can be deadlier than adults.  Adults can meter the amount of venom they inject and sometimes will even do "dry" bites.  They don't always feel the need to waste their venom, apparently, if not in dire peril.  The adolescents which haven't yet acquired that technique always deliver a full dose of venom with *every* bite.

Edited May 24, 20179 yr by wpcoe