"There was nothing that could be done to save the man. Only the anti-venom could have helped but this was not given in time."A snake expert said: "It is perfectly possible that the head remained alive and bit Peng's hand... By the time a snake has lost its head, it's effectively dead as basic body functions have ceased, but there is still some reflexive action."
August 24, 2014
Chef dies of a bite from the severed head of a cobra.
This is news from Guangdong, China, so maybe it's fake, but the story is that Peng Fan, making some delicacy, had cut off the head, picked it up to throw it away, and it bit him.
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A theme today of biting back?
Henry Rollins' audience bites back on him.
The earth bites back on Napa.
Man bites back on coerced Starbucks generosity.
Snake bites back at chef.
And we may find out if ***** bites back at ********.
"news from Guangdong, China, so maybe it's fake"
I suppose that in China, they say, "news from Kansas City, so maybe it's fake"
Moderation is back. Althouse bites back at a commenter behaving badly.
While cobras are scarce in this neck of the woods, the same rule applied to rattlesnakes, water moccasins, and other local fauna. The head ain't dead until it's smashed.
If it's fake, they may have been watching too much Princess Mononoke. "Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite..."
Karma
Why would anyone want to eat cobra meat?
When in doubt go to youtube
My father taught me better than that when I was a kid. There're no cobras in Texas, but there're plenty of things it's better not to be bitten by.
More proof. Sometimes you just need a tool to communicate.
"More proof. Sometimes you just need a tool to communicate."
So a vibrating dildo is an emergency Electrolarynx.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
If true, that's pretty bad news for Peng Fan.
Well, I guess that blows his chance of being on Diners,Drive-Ins & Dives!!!!
So I had to watch the flipping Youtube video. Now I'm going to have nightmares.
I'm sure it's true. I had the exact same thing happen to me.
---I suppose that in China, they say, "news from Kansas City, so maybe it's fake"
They probably say "news about Holder from Ferguson, so maybe its fake"
A friend of mine cut off the head of a copperhead in his garage and was bitten when he tried to pick it up and throw it out. It's a good thing we don't have cobras.
Would this qualify as delicious(?) irony?
It seems to me that if you think you know enough to make a cobra stew, you would know to be dammed careful about the handling of the business end of the cobra.
For me, it's a black letter rule: any ingredient that begins with "spitting" is a no-go. And for that matter, any ingredient that ends with "cobra" is simply off the menu.
-Krumhorn
Jeff Suchard wrote a letter published in the NEJM in 1999
Can a venomous snake really poison someone after it is dead?
The answer is yes, according to a letter to the editor appearing in the June 17, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The letter detailed the history of, and presented new data on, people bitten by rattlesnakes after they thought the snake was dead. Drs. Jeffery Suchard and Frank LoVecchio of the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix wrote the letter and presented their findings....
The doctors' review of literature cited a 1972 study that showed rattlesnake heads can remain dangerous for up to 60 minutes after decapitation. It also showed at least two references to people who suffered a significant envenomation from dead, preserved snakes. One came from a preserved head while the other was a skin prick from the fang of a freeze-dried prairie rattler's head.
Oh and Jeff Suchard lost a close game to Ken Jennings during Jennings's famous winning Jeopardy streak.
Step barefoot on a dead wasp and it can still sting you.
William said...
Why would anyone want to eat cobra meat?
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Because Chinese eat almost anything, and the rest they call medicine.
My brother in law was fishing on a sport fisher out of San Diego many years ago. One of the other fishermen on the bought had caught a blue shark--about five feet long.
The shark was lying on the deck--supposedly dead. My future brother in law dropped something on the deck next to the shark, reached down to pick it up--and the shark gave him a healthy bite. Fifty plus years on, he's still got scars on his forearm and wrist.
These days they don't bring sharks on the boats if they haven't hit them in the head with a "bang stick". That's a device with a 12 gauge shotgun shell at the tip.
Apply it to the shark's head and there's a reasonably good chance that the shark is really dead.
My sainted grandmother (dead, alas, since1953) was a country girl, and said if you cut off a snake's head it won't die until sundown. Maybe she was right.
Note to self: ...
I suspect this incident was not about eating snake meat, but about "snake wine", which is rice wine infused with the blood of a cobra. Sometimes they put the whole damned snake in there.
As obsessed as Americans are about ever more bizarre sexual practices ... well, the Chinese are like that about food and drink.
If you like retsina, you might wish to try "snake wine". Me? No, thank you.
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