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I thought that you guys would enjoy these......disclaimer, not my pics or video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=05mA6swEd0k

In the video, the fun starts at 2:10, again at 3:05, and the last snip is at 4:10.

These pics are from: http://s95.photobucket.com/albums/l129/cdpsnake00/

Nice specks......lol

Shane

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Lifelist

And the Darwin Award goes to....

That one clip is of David Weathers getting bit by a Monocled cobra. You can buy the dvd from Discovery its called "Anatomy of a snake bite". It also shows how Lou Dadono got killed by a big retic.

Lou did not get killed, considering he is the one they were interviewing in the Discovery Channel video. He helped them to re-enact the scene with the snake.

Lou is still very alive.
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Anja Buffalo
Crotalus & Company

Actually he DID die. They brought him back to life though. Its on the video. I just forgot to say they brought him back in the last post.

lol OK, yea ya got me there. He did die but is not DEAD.
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Anja Buffalo
Crotalus & Company

natural selection on that vid

Isn't that a forest cobra?

Weathers it was a Monocled. I was there when it happened.
Ernie Eison

Is the one in the youtube video the same one you are talking about?

Is it the one where Dave gets bit in the stomach ? If it is then yeah it's a monocled . Ernie Eison

I'm pretty sure the sake he's juggling in that video is a forest (doing what they do), then they cut to the scene of him being bitten by the monocled, which you can't really see. Even David probably would have been more carefully if that snake had been acting that way a few seconds before.

The part with the forest also looks like it was cut together to make it looks even more hectic that it probably was...
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

I would tend to think Ernie Eison was correct about it being a Monocled since he was there when David got bit. David also says it was a Monocled on another video i have when he is talking to the guys from Venom 1.

I was not disagreeing with Ernie. Only explaing (trying to) how the editing work had led to confusion.

The snake that David is seen flipping all over the place in this YouTube video seems to be a Forest Cobra, which he is trying to put into a container with a green lid. That is not the snake that bit him.

Then the scene cuts to him being bitten by a snake in a container with a blue lid in a different part of the room. You can't really see that snake because it happens so fast, but I assume it's a monocled as Ernie said.
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

yes, it was all editing that has led to this confusion.

Although I have not met the individual who got bit (Weathers), the footage has been aired all over tv numerous times. The monocled cobra was pinned behind the head and was about to be put back into the rubbermaid slide bin. As he released, the snake sprung back off the rear wall of the bin and bit him in the stomach. The footage shown in that little montage just shows the part where he gets bit.

The snake that was flailing all around on the hook was obviously a forest cobra. The video editor chose to put the flailing forest cobra just before he cut to the scene of him being bit by an entirely different snake (the monocled cobra).

So, everyone is right here. He was being bit by a monocled cobra and that was a forest cobra thrashing around on that hook trying to bite.

On a side note, did anyone notice him shake his hand like he was maybe bit by that forest cobra? I am wondering if it was maybe a venomoid. I know the reputation of the individual who got bit and he isn't a "venomoid guy", so I'm not trying to go down that road. I believe Weathers is a legit venomous handler and not showboating with venomoids. That forest got really close to him on a number of occasions, although it could have been angle. Regardless, that snake was pretty insane. Needless to say, I'm not quite up to forest cobra skill level yet and have never worked with one.

So that's the reason there's so many laws governing venomous snakes. To protect idiots like that? Go figure!
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It is said that 1 out of every 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends, if they're normal, then it's you.

I'm referring to the photos, not the video. I'm on dialup so I haven't seen the video.
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It is said that 1 out of every 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends, if they're normal, then it's you.

Aw, don't be so hard on the chap. Obviously he knew exactly what he could get away with. I mean, it's not like those snakes had any weird little pit-like organs evolved to detect micro-changes in the air compared to something's body temp right? Oh wait... Yeah, he's a tard.
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Chance Duncan
www.rivervalleyexotics.com

LOL!!!

I was young, once, and I thought I was brave. Now that I'm older and a lil' wiser, I realize how stupid I was. But I've just been outdone by this snake charmer.

I've gotta hand it to the fella, though. He's either awfully brave, really stupid, or, a super dangerous mixture of both, brave & stupid.

Another point of view; how many people said the same thing about Bill Haast during his heydays? Although, I don't think this guy's on near the same level as Haast.
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It is said that 1 out of every 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends, if they're normal, then it's you.