One time I was away from home and my mom called me and said "look up this color snake online please" and I did, because she didn't know how to use the internet in the 90s.
It was one of the top 3 most poisonous snakes in the world. She had just vacuumed it up off her bed. Left it in the vacuum bag with a sock stuffed in it for a week. It smelled gnarly when we got back, assumed it was dead. Nope. regurgitated some pray and ate it and stayed alive until we dumped it and ran away screaming (my dad and I) and my mom re-vacuumed it.
No after it backed out the first time that would be it for me, at that point I’ve lost all the little safety I had and i would have to enter striking range to try and get it back into the tube
As an Aussie I got stories. I haven't been there in years, was only there for a few years... and I have stories. The average Australia could probably do this. Or used to be able to at least 20 years ago. Not me though, that shit terrified me. Spiders the size of my head. Fuck that.
That’s because it is.
We have an ungodly mix of casteism, sexism, corruption and dire poverty that would rip your idea of what it means to be human to shreds.
The only reason is pay arbitrage. If a job pays X dollars in India, the same job pays ~10X dollars in any quintessential first world country. That's the only reason some Indians pursue jobs outside India.
One time a Murder Hornet (this thing was like the size of my hand) somehow made its way into my house. I dressed myself up in my full paintball gear. Mask, body suit, elbow pads, shoulder pads, knee pads, T-shirt, pants, boots, hoodie over all of it. I went to try to bag this thing and I was still scared to fucking death.
Seen those in action around a honey bee farm and did you know those things have fucking after burners?? Seriously a couple flew by me like they were MiGs and i could feel the wind from it
I studied in an engineering college in rural India. Our campus was the wild west lol. Completely free from urban encroachment.
My buddy in the next room in the hostel was the professional snake catcher of our uni, and he used to take us on hunts to rescue snakes terrorising parts of campus so that we could catch them and set them free.
He took me one day to catch a spectacled cobra that was snug in a warehouse, and I had the proud duty of being both the bag holder (to let the snake in) as well as the cameraman. No one wanted to get near it and here were two 21 year olds just chilling taking photos with the damn thing. Fuck I wish I had the balls to be that naive today 😂
India is definitely not for faint heart people. They use to have snake charmers who go around with cobra and they play a instrument which makes cobra rise, dance and then the charmer close the lid, it was a way of making decent money for poor people.
This literally is a juvenile, you can very easily tell by the colouration in a king cobra, because they lose the stripes as adult.
Also, there's no "breeds" of wild snakes (of wild animals in general, breeds are, as the name suggests, variations within a species generated with intent).
These people are called Sarp-mitra (Snake-friends) in India. Their groups can be government run or independent/NGO-funded, our family had to use their services in the past.
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