...courtesy of Ms. Schnakenberg, who works for the dpa and gets to read all the good stuff, comes this story about a man who found an interestingly stupid way of removing himself from the gene pool.
Ms. Schnakenberg said when she first saw the headline, she assumed this was a reporter's way of getting around the prohibition on the word "penis."
But no.
Trouser snake proves the death of 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.
2 comments:
My question is whether Ms. Schnakenberg insists people call her by her name as an alternative to caller "Ms Trouser Snake Burg."
Ja. She vill cause you immediate and serious pain if you do not address her in a respectful manner. You vill not be insolent vith her.
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