We needlessly tend to think of snakes as dangerous and disgusting. This is a view that has been reinforced by Bollywood and Hollywood as well. The sort of overreaction we have to snakes of all sizes, hues and levels of venomousness, it is really no wonder that snake videos and ‘news’ involving snakes routinely grab headlines.
Girl opens fridge, finds King Cobra inside, said the headlines. There is the creature, curled up in the fridge, cool as you please. When the man extracts it, it simply goes on and on! Hard not to stare at that!
That is (ugh!) huge – I get that people find it difficult to tear their eyes away from that! All that bunching and slithering is kind of fascinating, I grant you.
This cobra deciding to lay her eggs at entirely the wrong place also caught the attention of publications in India and elsewhere.
What is more riveting than a dangerous venomous reptile? The promise of more dangerous, venomous reptiles! One Australian woman found a snake behind her fridge. Turns out the snake was pregnant and then proceeded to lay eggs.
There were snakes under a home in Texas, and there were 45 of them! So why is this fascinating? Quite simply because this is a nightmare come true!
A bathroom is where one expects to be alone. But sometimes snakes have all the wrong ideas about relaxation and privacy.
OK, so this isn’t as ghastly as the possibility of a reptile literally biting one in the behind. But this guy would most certainly shatter the expectation of a peaceful, relaxing tub bath.
In Cape Town a shopper was clearly not shopping for what she found when she reached for the yoghurt: a 12 ft python! That story went viral because… it teaches us to be careful at supermarkets?
Yes, they found an adult human inside this python. I know most snakes are not poisonous and a python actually killing and swallowing a human is rare in the extreme. But the thing is, it can happen. Just knowing that can and will give us nightmares… is it any wonder that the images and videos that make our flesh crawl in disgust do also fascinate us? It really is the same reason that horror movies are made and watched isn’t it?
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