MERI NEWS (Palam Vihar, India) 31 March 08 Man bites snake
An inebriated cook of the Jamuria police station canteen chanced upon a cobra, which had been clobbered by a group and was dying. The cook Subhas Banerjee (26) on his way home to Ikra village picked up the five foot long snake by the tail and bit into it even as the group tried to stop him last weekend. The snake was bitten into two. The cook apparently told onlookers that he wanted to bite the snake to find out how it feels.. Soon after, however, Subhas foamed at the mouth and fell unconscious. The man was removed to Asansol Sub-divisional Hospital and has survived his misadventure.
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DAIJI WORLD (Mangalore, India) 31 April 08 Man Bites Snake to Death to 'Give Taste of its Own Medicine'!
Burdwan (PTI): It was a role reversal of sorts. Instances of snakebites and even deaths due to it are not uncommon in these parts of Bengal. But it was the turn of a poisonous cobra being bitten to death by a human.
A drunken man cut the snake into two pieces in Ekra village on Friday night, saying that "it should have a taste of its own medicine".
Subhas Banerjee, who works at a canteen in Jamuria in Burdwan, was returning home in Ekra in a drunken state on Friday night.
On the way, he heard some villagers talking about a cobra that had been found in the locality, police said.
Banerjee went to the spot where the snake had been found, hit it with a stick, bit it and cut it into two with his teeth. When shocked bystanders tried to desist him, he told them that a snake should know how it feels like to get bitten.
Soon after, though, he fell unconscious and had to be taken to a hospital. Banerjee has recovered now.
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