DMUK: An eight-year-old Indian boy killed a cobra that had wrapped itself around his arm and sank its fangs into his skin by biting it back in a miraculous tale of survival.
The boy, known only as Deepak, was attacked by the snake in the remote Pandarpadh village in India’s central Chhattisgarh region on Monday, it was reported.
The cobra latched on to him while he was playing outside his family home and wound its body around his arm, before rearing back and biting down to inject its deadly poison.
Fighting through the pain, Deepak furiously shook his arm but couldn’t release the reptile, at which point he decided to give the attacker a taste of its own medicine and viciously sank his own teeth into its body, successfully killing the animal. more
Never stop fighting.
A lesson for us all.
The boy formerly known as Deepak. He’s Mongoose now.
Be careful doing that to a Hillary.
aircubed
NOVEMBER 5, 2022 AT 11:29 AM
“The boy formerly known as Deepak. He’s Mongoose now.”
…or Tom McEwen…
https://axleaddict.com/cars/Mongoose-vs-The-Snake–The-Greatest-Rivalry-In-Drag-Racing
(from the Wayback Files)
SNS, I still have an early 90’s t-shirt commemorating “The Snake” hitting 300 mph.
In 1994 a FedEx cargo crew was assaulted with hammers and spear gun by a fellow deadheading pilot who was going to get fired. Despite being totally surprised and with severe bleeding and brain injury, they fought for control of the aircraft and even destabilized the man by doing aerobatic maneuvers IN A CARGO PLANE until they successfully landed and police could enter.
https://youtu.be/LKO7k0Kh7Nw
Never.
Give.
Up.
Another example from the aviation world, albeit with a less optimal outcome, was when Alaska Air Flight 261 lost control of their horizontal stabilizer due to poor maintenance and the plane flipped completely over on its way to crashing into the Pacific. The crew never had a chance, but they also never gave up the fight.
https://youtu.be/BqvTCbDSiJo
…nearly the last thing one of the pilots said was this;
“1620:38 CAM-1 gotta get it over again… at least upside down we’re flyin.”
https://tailstrike.com/database/31-january-2000-alaska-airlines-261/
…there was no quit in either of them.
That’s how we all should be.
And that’s one less thing to be ashamed of before the throne of God.
BOY BITES SNAKE – Should be a frontpage headline, an updated version of MAN BITES DOG.
@SNS
A similar thing happened on an Air Alaska flight a little northwest of LA and flying over the Pacific. The screw that made the horizonal stabilized move broke, the pilots lost control, and the aircraft took a dive into the Pacific – nobody survived.
I don’t if that was lack of maintenance or a faulty screw. But most errors like that can be traced back to human error.
@ SNS That transcript was chilling.
@ Tim Horiz. stabilizer was operated by jack screws.
I was Q Mgr. of an aerospace supplier that made similar products for the airline industry at that time. As I recall they failed due to insufficient or deferred maintenance related to a “hot turnaround.”
Tim Buktu
NOVEMBER 5, 2022 AT 2:05 PM
Tom Dually
NOVEMBER 5, 2022 AT 6:21 PM
The beginning of the transcript has a full description and images of the jackscrew.
There was a Cobra in a herpetarium that was given a live rat for lunch.
Rat promptly climbed up the snake & bit it, then retired to his corner.
Snake lost interest & died the next day.
Deadly, but fragile.
I see Chuck Norris has been gettin’ busy in India 🥸🤣
Gingivitis is no laughing matter.