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Man bitten by snake in lodge shower
2012-03-16 11:28



Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal man says he got the fright of his life when a deadly spitting cobra crawled up a drain and into his shower at a game lodge and attacked him.

Marketing director for uShaka Marine World, Grant Adams, said it was like a scene from a movie, reported the Daily News.

Adams was taking a shower while visiting the lodge with family on Saturday when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle.

He jumped out of the shower and turned around to see the deadly snake about half a metre out of the drain pipe.

Game rangers identified the snake as a Mozambique spitting cobra and Adams was rushed to hospital.

A snake expert told his wife that he had three hours. The nearest hospital was in Richards Bay - an hour and a half away.

They arrived at the hospital 55 minutes later and Adams was given antivenom two-and-a-half hours after he was bitten. He was already starting to feel nauseous and hot.

Adams said he was lucky to be alive and was grateful that one of his children had not been in the shower when it happened.

He was discharged from the hospital on Monday.


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While I never had a snake in my shower in Zimbabwe, I did have a few frogs hang out in there.

A lot of people seem to worry about snakes in Africa. In Zim I killed a boomslang with my 44 Mag, a mamba with my pocket knife, and I stepped on a couple of Cobras while running after Cape Buff...
I am not afraid of snakes, as I live in Texas and we have rattle snakes, copperheads, corral snakes, and the most aggressive of all cottonmouth water mocossins.

I do respect them, but they do not scare me.

Only 2 things scare me, Women and the Police... shocker

Well maybe three things, spiders scare me too. sofa


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I got up at 3 in the morning while in Chete, Zimbabwe, getting ready to go to a leopard blind.

I was on the toilet, when I felt something crawling on my foot!

It was dark, but I had a torch.

I turned the torch on, and there was the biggest, blackest, scorpion I have ever seen, sitting half way on my right foot!

I was hoping to get a dangerous game animal that morning, but not in bloody toilet!

There was a metal holder we used for our tooth brush, probably made about 100 years earlier, as it was very heavy, thank goodness!

I had to aim correctly, because I did not want to damage my foot.

I clobbered the scorpion, making such a loud noise, cutting it in half.

My wife woke up at the nose, and asked from the bed "What is happening?"

"Nothing, go back to sleep, I will see when we come back"

"Good luck with the leopard"


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While I never had a snake in my shower in Zimbabwe, In Zim I killed a boomslang with my 44 Mag, a mamba with my pocket knife, a

What, do tell, was the mamba doing while you wielded a pocket-knife about, inflicting mortal wounds upon it? Eeker
 
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I would like to know that one as well. I wont raise the BS flag just yet. I will allow you to tell your story. A statement like that is pretty hard to swallow but strange things do happen.


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Was told a story of a pretty girl getting bit on the arse in the toilet and how she ran out of the hut bottomless and needing to have the bite attended to. Was told the story in Zambia on the banks of the Zambezi in a safari camp.

One never knows how true such a story is, and how much it is the fantasies of the PH. Wink


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I reckon being pecked on the arse in a toilet would pretty much leave one in the shit, so to speak. Whistling
 
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Yoo-hoo, Scriptus! This one's right up your alley ...

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
While I never had a snake in my shower in Zimbabwe, In Zim I killed a boomslang with my 44 Mag, a mamba with my pocket knife, a

What, do tell, was the mamba doing while you wielded a pocket-knife about, inflicting mortal wounds upon it? Eeker




The PH pulled up next to it in the Land Cruiser, and pinned its head to the ground with the shooting sticks, I jumped out and pulled my pocket knife, ran around to the snake, grabbed it behind the head and cut its head off.

The PH and the cameraman were a little upset saying that that was very dangerous. shocker shame

I reminded them that I was from Texas, and we had real agressive snakes like rattlers and water moccosssins. knife


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I have to admit that I think about this happening every single trip.
 
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I have to admit that I think about this happening every single trip.


What? cutting mamba's heads off with a pocket knife? Cool

The PH pulled up next to it in the Land Cruiser, and pinned its head to the ground with the shooting sticks,
Jeez, even the PH is a bit more than DAFT! Eeker
 
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The PH remained sitting in the Land Cruiser, he was handed the shooting sticks by one of the trackers in the back, He never opened the door.

Actually the most suprising thing to me is that the snake allowed the Cruiser do drive right up beside him.

I have pinned down, by the head many a rattler, and a few Cottonmouths and picked them up.
Depending on where this was, I either let them go or cut their heads off.

With Rattlers fairly easy, with cottonmouths a lot more dicey, they are much more agressive.

If you miss their head with your stick, they are liable to climb up it.

I never ate a cotton mouth, or a copper head, but a rattler tastes like a cross between chicken and fish. Pretty good actually.

Just do not ask me to catch a spider. shocker

Unless it is a trantulla, they are not too bad. I cought a bunch of them for a college class once. BUT I did not touch them with my hands, and would NOT let one walk on me...


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A lot of people seem to worry about snakes in Africa. In my opinion they are not a big deal. yes they are snakes in Africa.

But you are in far bigger danger of being bitten by a rattler or a copper head IN camp at my deer lease in Texas.
We kill several of them most every year.

When I go to Africa the ONLY thing I REALLY worry about is my guns and luggage getting stolen when in the "care" of the airlines.


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