[QUOTE]A chef preparing a dish made from cobra flesh died after the snake bit his hand - 20 minutes after he had severed it from its body.Peng Fan from Foshan, Guangdong province, southern China, had been preparing a special dish made from Indochinese spitting cobra, a rare delicacy.
It was as he went to chuck the cobra's head in the bin that it bit him, injecting Mr Peng with its flesh-killing, neurotoxic venom.
The snake was being diced up to be made into snake soup, which is a delicacy in Guangdong and a much sought after dish in the province's high-end restaurants.
Restaurant guest Lin Sun, 44, who was in the restaurant with his wife Su at the time said: "We were in the restaurant having a meal for my wife's birthday when suddenly there was a lot of commotion.
"We did not know what was happening but could hear screams coming from the kitchen.
"There were calls for a doctor in the restaurant but unfortunately by the time medical assistance arrived the man had already died.
"After we heard that we did not continue with our meal."
Police say Peng died before he could be given life saving anti-venom in hospital. Victims of the Indochinese spitting cobra generally asphyxiate after the neurotoxin paralyses their respiratory system.
A police spokesman said: "It is a highly unusual case but it appears to be just an accident. The man had a very severe reaction to the bite.
"There was nothing that could be done to save the man. Only the anti-venom could have helped but this was not given in time.
"He prepared the snake himself and was just unlucky. It was just a tragic accident."
Snake expert Yang Hong-chang - who has spent 40 years studying cobras - says all reptiles can function for up to an hour after losing body parts, or even their entire body.
"It is perfectly possible that the head remained alive and bit Peng's hand," he said.
"By the time a snake has lost its head, it's effectively dead as basic body functions have ceased, but there is still some reflexive action."
"It means snakes have the capability of biting and injecting venom even after the head has been severed."
Indochinese spitting cobras are indigenous Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Burma.
Their flesh is a much sought after delicacy and the skin is used to make expensive designer goods, a trade which has no doubt contributed to their "vulnerable" conservation status.
Snake meat is really good for us. It is not so easy to get and is expensive but it has spectacular health benefits
Residents of the Guangdong province have a long history of enjoying snake meats of all sorts in local culinary dishes.[/QUOTE]
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That snake is metal as fuck.
Serious note though:
That is probably the worst way to die. Being bit by a snake is one thing, being bit by a decapitated snake is leagues worse.
I've seen this once, although it wasn't 20 minutes later. We were out camping and spotted a rattlesnake so my neighbor blew it to bits with a shotgun. 10 minutes later it would still jerk its head and bite
[QUOTE]"After we heard that we did not continue with our meal."[/QUOTE]
Wow how rude, least you could do was finish the man's life work you ungrateful fuck!
On a more serious note, I'm pretty amazed that the snake was able to bite so late after getting the head lobbed off. You'd think the oxygen needed in the blood to drive the muscles and so forth would be gone by then, even if reflexes and nerves were intact to trigger it.
Jesus Christ on a bicycle. Maybe this will encourage safer means of disposing of dead snake heads, at least in restaurant environments.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45826152]Jesus Christ on a bicycle. Maybe this will encourage safer means of disposing of dead snake heads, at least in restaurant environments.[/QUOTE]
How often do people eat snake heads in New Zealand? Should just use tongs and put them in a specific bucket, like disposing sharps.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45826152]Jesus Christ on a bicycle. Maybe this will encourage safer means of disposing of dead snake heads, at least in restaurant environments.[/QUOTE]
I doubt most snakes stay conscious from the shock of beheading, like anything else, but I'm surprised it had any power left after so long. Determined, vengeful little bugger
[QUOTE=dai;45826485]I doubt most snakes stay conscious from the shock of beheading. Determined vengeful little bugger[/QUOTE]
I know but better to be safe than sorry. The chances of something like this happening aren't high, but it's safer if we try to be a bit more careful going about preparing such things as snakes for dinner.
If anyone remembers watching the early series of Ultimate Survival, Bear Grylls always said to bury the snake's head after killing it - you can get "bitten" by just stepping on it.
Yes, that is why the Berbers on that episode of Man vs Wild bury the head or burn it.
It's also weird how the muscles still spasm and the body contracts long after the head has been removed
[QUOTE=Stopper;45826545]If anyone remembers watching the early series of Ultimate Survival, Bear Grylls always said to bury the snake's head after killing it - you can get "bitten" by just stepping on it.[/QUOTE]
Looks like we both watched the same thing
Now this is something scarier than spiders. Undead cobra heads.
snakes dead but its still got its reflexes
That's why the rule in survival is if you have to kill a snake, at least bury its head or something. That bastard can still bite the piss out of you even after hes dead. Really shitty that it happened to be a cobra in this case.
I understand the whole "survival" thing doesn't work given the setting, but at least consider putting the snake's head in a container or something.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45826498] The chances of something like this happening aren't high, but it's safer if we try to be a [B][U]bit[/U][/B] more careful going about preparing such things as snakes for dinner.[/QUOTE]
eheheheheheheh
[QUOTE=Riller;45826147]Wow how rude, least you could do was finish the man's life work you ungrateful fuck!
On a more serious note, I'm pretty amazed that the snake was able to bite so late after getting the head lobbed off. You'd think the oxygen needed in the blood to drive the muscles and so forth would be gone by then, even if reflexes and nerves were intact to trigger it.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of that Club Dread scene where the villain, even after being cut in half, still attacked the guys, full of rage.
I still have no idea how it reacts to the snake head biting itself. I mean I get muscle spasms but there isn't anything telling the body what to do so how does it react so differently (hell, at all) when it bites the body?
Would've never known this without this article. Watch this like ten years from now save my life or something.
[QUOTE=dai;45826485]I doubt most snakes stay conscious from the shock of beheading, like anything else, but I'm surprised it had any power left after so long. Determined, vengeful little bugger[/QUOTE]
As I kid I was taught that snake's muscles can automaticly start twitching and contracting upon their death, regardless if they are still conscious or not. Because of that there is a very real risk of still getting bit by a dead one, as likely happened in the article.
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;45827124]I still have no idea how it reacts to the snake head biting itself. I mean I get muscle spasms but there isn't anything telling the body what to do so how does it react so differently (hell, at all) when it bites the body?[/QUOTE]
if the fangs bite deep enough to penetrate the skin IIRC, that's about enough pressure to squeeze any venom in the sacs into the victim.
[QUOTE=Wandaltz;45826684][video=youtube;WaJnSvsx7lU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJnSvsx7lU[/video][/QUOTE]
This must be one of those newer snakes with built in wifi.
This is quite incredible, I honestly never would've thought a decapitated Snake head can be this dangerous. I knew about headless chickens still being able to run around and (try to) eat, but Snake heads biting ? That's on a whole new level.
This is some crazy stuff and I've seen chicken running around without their heads in my backyard.
[QUOTE=usaokay;45827309]This is why you should always destroy the brain even after decapitating the head.
I learned that from Evil Dead and The Walking Dead.[/QUOTE]
Isn't this more about muscle reflex, not the brain telling the snake to bite?
But I guess smashing the brain would lead to smashed head.
If there's one thing Dwarf Fortress taught me, it's always properly dispose of butchered animal parts, lest they return to life and FUCK YOU UP.
[QUOTE=CrimsonChin;45827267]This must be one of those newer snakes with built in wifi.[/QUOTE]
And it's deffective. Where's the fucking quality assurance on these things?
[QUOTE=Wandaltz;45826684][video=youtube;WaJnSvsx7lU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaJnSvsx7lU[/video][/QUOTE]
That's some scary fucking shit. Imagine traveling through the countryside and seeing a snake head trying to bite its own body.
I wouldn't even know what to think and feel.
misread as "chef decapitated by cobra"
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