I saw this on HLN this morning and just HAD to find out more details *shudder* …Gordon and Ilda Parratt got the scare of their lives yesterday when a they found a hitchhiker in their car. The Parratts were driving through Kruger National Park in South Africa when he felt a insect on his leg. When he leaned down to brush it away he saw a Mozambique Spitting Cobra staring back up at him.
He didn’t panic but told his wife that they had a passenger in the car. Ilda took one look and put her feet up on the dashboard. Cool as a cucumber, Gordon continued driving, eventually reaching a reptile park. They emptied the car but couldn’t find the snake.
The staff told them to leave the car and find another way home. No way, he told them, so the Parratts accepted some stretch plaster that they could use as a tourniquet in case the snake bit one of them and continued on their way.
Several times during the drive, the snake reappeared and wound itself around Gordon’s leg. Each time the snake appeared, it was not convenient to stop as they were on an expressway. And when they did manage to stop, the snake would disappear.
Eventually they were able to inquire about a snake expert, found Hein Geldenhuys, and drove to his house. Geldenhuys searched for, found and safely removed the snake, which began spitting venom all over the place.
The expert, of course, was more concerned about the condition of the snake (an “oom”) than he was about the Parratts.
I kid you not.
3 comments:
Nerves of steel!
GROSS!!!! I would have had a heart attack and died on the spot.
I would have left the dadgum car with the reptile place. That was idiotic.
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