"don't worry - it's nothing a drink can't fix"

Trouser snake proves the death of Cambodian man
Posted : Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:22:09 GMT

Phnom Penh - 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.

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