Snake-Slaying Fest
Fies-bizarre Fotostrecke auf Wireds Raw File über das ein texanisches Schlangen-Schlachtfest:
Prior to his trip to the Lone Star State, his work was all about sex, drugs and partying in Kentucky where he attended college. […]
In Texas, Kasnic encountered a new type of revelry. The annual event in Sweetwater is the world’s largest rattlesnake cull with approximately 10,000 snakes dismembered and milked. Members of the public can handle snakes (after signing a waiver), skin snakes, eat snake meat and swig beer from snake-skin koozies.
“This was partying on a whole different level. Beers, smokes and snakes. Usually it’s just the first two,” he says.
Gory Snake-Slaying Fest Is Strange New Revelry for Rowdy Photog
Drunk Dude buys stolen Python that nearly ate his friend
Das kommt davon, wenn man betrunken Riesenpythons kauft:
A boozy dad bought a 15ft PYTHON from a gypsy before taking it home where it tried to EAT his friend “in a scene from a Guy Ritchie film,” a court heard.
Hungover Dwayne Matthews, 29, awoke the morning after a heavy drinking session to find the huge snake “rearing up with it’s jaws open” ready to pounce on his pal who was asleep on the sofa. Matthews had bought the 14kg beast, called Bruce, the night before from a traveller with the intention of selling it on to fund his new guttering business.
Drunk father bought 15ft python from a gypsy before it tried to EAT his friend as he slept
Pink Cobra Soundsystem
The sound systems of Northern Colombia, stammt wohl aus einer Fotoserie von Deborah Hernandez Paccini, über die ich vor zwei Jahren schonmal gebloggt hatte. Die Cobra in Pink war damals allerdings nicht dabei (und ja, offensichtlich ist das Teil im Original rot und hier stimmt irgendwas mit dem Gelb-Film nicht, aber egal.)
Snake Sweater
Ein selbstgestrickter Pulli für ‘ne Schlange von Stephanie Christine Davidson. Yep. (via Neatorama)
Getting High Injecting Snake Venom
Ich hatte hier schon öfter Meldungen über Leute, die sich mit Schlangengift druffschicken, jetzt hat Vice einen schönen Clip über Steve Ludwin, der sich das Zeug seit 20 Jahren injeziert.
Milking an array of deadly snakes including rattlesnakes and monocled cobras, with a few vipers thrown in the mix, Steve has been injecting what would for any normal human be fatal amounts venom into his body since the late 80s.
The basic principle—laid out by pioneer herpetologist Bill Haast, who died last year at the age of 100—is that regular exposure to the venom develops an immunity. Steve claims to never get ill, and that cobra venom is the ultimate pick-me-up, with effects lasting days after injecting, making Steve stronger, faster, and more resilient.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Getting High on Snakebites
Delhi-Raves high on Cobra-Bites
Giant Cobra made from frozen Bullshit
Mikhail Bopposov hat in Sibirien eine 400 Kilo schwere Riesenkobra aus gefrorener Kuhscheiße gebastelt, damit die Kids was zum Spielen haben. Dit is’ doch mal was.
“I made it so the kids could play around and have some fun,” the native of the Siberian republic of Yakutia told RIA Novosti by phone Friday, speaking about his 400-kilogram creation. The snake – coiled, with head upright and hood widened – is on display in the village of Yolba, about 300 kilometers east of the republic’s capital, Yakutsk.
The installation was created to mark the coming of the Year of the Snake, which begins February 10 according to the Chinese calendar, Bopposov said.
Dung Cobra Sculpted in Russia’s Coldest Region (via Arbroath)
Eric, the Snake Cake
Oh, look at this! Laura made this wonderful example of a Snake Cake two years ago. Those eyes remind me of a lawyer!
Eric was carved vanilla madeira sponge cake which was then covered in sugarpaste, each scale individually imprinted, his skin handpainted and each scale highlighted before receiving his shiny coat.
Being a corn snake I made him a bed of soil amongst the withered leaves and stems of the corn plantation.
Giant Gummy Python-Candy
Eine 13 Kilo schwere, zwei Meter lange Gummibärchen-Python und ein Commercial hat’se auch:
Youtube Direktgummy, via Nerdalicious
Folks, the Party Python is about as ridiculous as candy can get. Simply put, it is a demanding piece of confectionery that blurs the line between food and art. Tipping the scales at nearly 27 pounds, this huge candy snake packs over 36,000 calories into its nearly 8-foot-long frame.
Boasting incredible details including intricate eyes, extensive and blended coloring, ridged coils, and thousands of individually carved scales, the Party Python will steal the show at any party.
Rattlesnake and Rabbit Sausage with Jalapeño
„Buttery but mildly spicy.“ Kann man hier kaufen für 18 Dollar das Pfund.
There is equal amounts of Rabbit to Rattlesnake in this sausage and the Jalapenos add a much welcomed bite (Yes this is a pun) to the already flavor packed sausage. Very interesting and pleasing flavor profile, as rabbit and rattlesnake compliment each other.
Rattlesnake and Rabbit Sausage with Jalapenos (via Arbroath)
This Snake Cake is no Amelanistic Burmese Python
Ganz, ganz grandioser Kuchen von North Star Cakes. Könnte man nur noch grandioser machen, in dem man der Kuchenschlange ein Stück Toterattekuchen aus’m Maul hängen lässt, aber das muss ja nun auch nich’ sein. Fantastischer Kuchen, ich bin begeistert! Zum Futtern eigentlich viel zu schade. (via Ronny)
Delhi-Raves high on Cobra-Bites
In Delhi haben sie eine Gang festgenommen, die ein paar Kobras und ‘nen halben Liter Schlangengift auf einen Valentinstag-Rave schmuggeln wollten. Vor fast genau einem Jahr hatte ich schonmal ‘ne Story über Leute, die sich mit Schlangenbissen draufschicken. Scheint mir so ein Februar-Ding zu sein.
Delhi police arrested a gang of snake smugglers on Monday and recovered four cobras and about half-a-litre of venom after a tip-off from an NGO People For Animals (PFA). According to police, the venom extracted from these snakes was to be used in high-end raves planned for Valentine’s Day in and around the Indian capital.
Snake smuggling for skins or species value is common. However, smuggling cobras for venom meant for raves has alarmed the police. They have arrested two alleged smugglers and booked them for illegally carrying cobras. According to police, venom and snake bites are preferred by drug addicts in raves these days. They suspected that the four cobras were being smuggled to bite junkies.
Police said this new found drug is popular in Delhi raves. Snake bite thus joins morphine, cocaine and the rest as a sort of exotic stimulant.
Cobras and venom meant for making drugs for use in Valentine’s Day rave parties seized in Delhi
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Getting High on Snakebites
Praying with Snakes
Time hat eine tolle Bilderstrecke mit Gläubigen im Süden Amerikas, die mit Schlangen beten. Darüber hab’ ich mal ‘ne Doku gesehen, das wird heute (soweit ich weiß) nur noch in Kingston, Georgia praktiziert, hier ein etwas zu reißerischer Clip dazu. Vom Time Mag:
“They shall take up serpents,” reads the Bible’s Gospel according to Mark, “and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.” Inspired by passages like this one, people the world over have long demonstrated the strength of their beliefs by handling poisonous snakes during emotionally charged religious services, gatherings of faith healers, and revival meetings. Here, LIFE.com offers a look at this unique form of worship in pictures from the American South taken in the 1940s by photographers Tony Linck, Francis Miller, and Thomas McAvoy.
Snake Handlers, Faith Healers of the 1940s (via Boing Boing, Vorsicht falls Ihr das bloggen wollt: Die Bilder stammen sämtlichst von Getty Images. Verkleinerte Bildausschnitte gehen allerdings klar, denke ich.)
Cobras in the Tax Office
Youtube Direktsnakes, via Boing Boing
Ein angepisster Schlangenbeschwörer namens Subhash Mani Tripathi hat in einer Steuerbehörde in Indien seine Cobras auf die Beamten losgelassen, weil die ihm das versprochene Land nicht zugewiesen hatten, auf dem er seine Giftschlangen halten wollte.
Local bureaucrats leapt onto their desks or ran out of the building in the Northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh when Hakkul let his snakes, including some poisonous cobras, out of their bags.
“He had applied for a plot of land to keep his snakes,” Subhash Mani Tripathi, the head of land revenue administration, told AFP news agency. “But there is no provision for such a business. Instead of seeking a written reply, which we would have issued, Hakkul created panic by letting loose a bunch of snakes all over the office.”
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