Trains = Death Too

     Thanks to Chief-Editing-Person-In-Charge Jay for pointing out another story to reawaken my snakophobia. This time it's on a train in a place where I spent some time: Vietnam. A lot of the headline writers have been having fun with it. "Snakes On A Train", you know.

     Anyway, here's the CBS TV Report about the discovery of living samples of the world's largest venomous snakes in a bag under a seat on a passenger train.

     I couldn't find any pictures of the snakes in the story, but this is me in Vietnam in 1970, and I kinda look like I'm wondering what's causing the ripples near my feet. I was young then, and had not yet developed my mature snakophobia...explaining why I am willingly standing in water that is surely infested.

(The photo also explains why I was never drafted into my unit's basketball team, and why the team has such a short season.)

Yard Snake

Chief Executive Blog Editor and Photo Selecting Person Jay spotted this this during a hour house tour and couldn't wait to share it with me, knowing my snakophobic nature....

....are they trying to scare the little kids to keep 'em off the slide????

Busted!

     The missing cobra at the Bronx Zoo is missing no more....he was found just in time to make a trip this weekend's Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp!

     That link is to the TIME magazine story, which includes a sidebar about the ten best zoo escapes.



[Thanks to Chief snake and foreign-Correspondent Jay for alerting me to the arrest!]

Esssssssssssssssssssscape.

     Last year it was Zoo Atlanta losssing track of a deadly snake.

     Now it's New York's Bronx Zoo.

     The folks up in NY say they are confident the snake is still inside the viper palace, but that's the same thing the Atlanta folks said and their escaped killer was found on the lawn of a family living nearby.

     Tim's snakeophobe motto is: presume they are all deadly and out to kill you until proven otherwise.



[Thanks to Chief snake correspondent and VP for pay wall development, Jay, for the tip.]