EDMONTON SUN (Alberta) 21 September 04 Cops shoot snake man
Leoben, Austria (AP): Police shot a man in the thigh after he wrapped himself with two deadly cobras and threatened to commit suicide, then swung the snakes at officers who had rushed to his home in southern Austria, officials said yesterday. One of the cobras bit the 40-year-old man in the hand during Sunday afternoon's standoff in Leoben, Austrian state television reported.
He had emergency surgery for the snake bite and the gunshot wound and remained hospitalized in critical condition yesterday.
Police said the man was intoxicated.
Cops shoot snake man