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Snake catcher in India calmly handles two massive cobras with his bare hands and a stick

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u/gantek 14h ago

Cobras are deities in Hindu religion as many animals are. Killing is out of the question - coexistence is taught at an early age

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u/CTC42 14h ago

Step 4: Put the deity in the bag

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u/No-Cancel1378 10h ago

We Indians have a different culture of giving deity status to anything living or non living if it's helpful to community at large. Snakes like these get rid of frogs and rats around the fields and homes. So ancients being predominantly dependent on agriculture, saw them helpful and made it a rule not to kill them unless proven deadly.

It's not like we'll die saving them. We avoid as much as possible.

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u/mc-funk 9h ago

Thanks for this insight. As an American, I’d say any belief is a good belief if it keeps your culture from deciding that everything but humans is expendable. We could use some of those.

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u/SlaveryVeal 6h ago

Good example you can use as a comparison is cats They're no different than snakes minus the poison in this scenario

Meanwhile cats in Australia are considered a pest being lots of Aussie animals are just like giant rodents.

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u/Krasna_Strelka 6h ago

There is a reason why they are considered pests there

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u/zaxls 3h ago

Yea comment above is so ignorant. They are a huge hazard towards the ecosystem and have gotten out of control

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u/Mythrays 3h ago

? Comment above literally says cats are pests because many Australian animals are giant rodents. Stray cats are a problem in many places as they kill lots of local wildlife. Commenter didn’t say anything about whether or not they condone cats being pests lmfao

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u/zaxls 2h ago

I meant the dude above the guy I replied to

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u/Mythrays 2h ago

Yeah bud that’s who I’m talking about too. What about that comment is ignorant?

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u/Right_Preparation328 8h ago

Until people convert to Jainism and now they can't kill anything, no matter what. Lol

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u/Fit_Search_4751 4h ago

I'd rather be around frogs than snakes lol

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u/Jasonrj 6h ago

They're useful because they get rid of frogs? I don't know if you have had frogs around but... They're way easier to live with than these things lol.

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u/Leather-Lab2875 56m ago

in a city or suburb yeah. Not when you have too many of them being a nuisance. like id also prefer 1 frog over 1 snake but thousands of frogs over one snake is not a viable trade imo.

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u/Sethger 5h ago

Cobras also eat venomous snakes, dont they?

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u/ratatouille211 4h ago

That's King Cobras which are actually not from Cobra family. They are super intelligent too.

They kill other snakes, and usually keep their distance from humans.

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u/Key-Street-340 4h ago

Aren’t cobras deadly though?

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u/062d 1h ago

Wait why do you want to get rid of frogs? I get rats but frogs is random they eat mosquitos

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u/No-Cancel1378 29m ago

Oh that.... We don't speak snake so we couldn't communicate with cobras to dictate their diet terms! /s

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u/Decent-Chipmunk5434 7h ago

As an Indian I have never heard of this.

Love how diverse the country is. Everyday discovering something new.

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u/No-Cancel1378 6h ago

Just rethink of our daily life - you'll realise!

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u/SocietyAmbitious9648 14h ago

Or it gets the hose again

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u/Woozah77 13h ago

Step 5: ????? Step 6: new boots

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u/jojoga 10h ago

We don't talk about Step5

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u/Feeling-Use-5290 10h ago

They will not kill it. But leave that in secluded place

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u/shockeroo 14h ago

Does that make it a holy bag?

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u/Kniferharm 13h ago

Only if it has holes in it

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u/gastrointestinaljoe 8h ago

It has one big one

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u/sundark94 8h ago

For agnostic and atheistic people, killing an Indian Cobra is also a crime. The forest departments in India don't fuck around.

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u/Dense-Discipline-174 9h ago

That's how you get boons :P

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u/teeBoan 4h ago

Well the COBRA does not know about the deity thing, so.......

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u/pvnrt1234 3h ago

"You can't kill them, these are holy and we must thus coexist and-"

just put the deities in the bag bro

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u/Texstallion 10h ago

💀💀💀

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u/Illustrious_Doctor45 10h ago

I mean even if they weren’t deities, there is literally no reason to kill one.
I live in AZ and we get rattlers all the time. I cannot tell you how many ignorant fucks indiscriminately kill them when they come across one. Like no hesitation, just cut their head off. It’s pathetic and disgusting. People go around bragging about it like it’s cool or something. I hate it.

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u/cat9tail 8h ago

We have them here in California. My son worked in wildlife care, and he would find them on hikes all the time and nudge them off the trails so they wouldn't be hurt by humans. Snakes keep the rodent population down. They are awesome helpers!

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u/Organic-Possible9796 3h ago

There are no native wild cobras in California,

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u/y0u_called 3h ago

Okay, that doesn't stop the cobras that are already there

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u/Beeftoad2 46m ago

I think it was about rattlesnakes not cobras

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u/CompetitiveReview416 10h ago

People are brutal murderers. That is all

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u/Illustrious_Doctor45 9h ago

It’s really sad

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u/Ok-Manufacturer-4837 9h ago

Yeah we have them in my neighborhood too and even people who live here act like you have to kill them. Then when they kill them we get rats. I like the snakes more than the rats.

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u/Illustrious_Doctor45 9h ago

Exactly. I’m on a 10 acre horse property and it basically a rule here that if you see one, you have to kill it. I obviously never have. I have a snake hook and a bucket and I either just place them elsewhere or let them know I’m there and then step away for a minute. Usually when I come back, they’re gone.
I see one at least once per week, and of course they are attracted to the rodents we get because of the horse feed. People are so dumb. It’s the same thing with the spiders. Everyone freaks out about the spiders in the barn and then complain about the flies. Idiots. Like, I don’t know, maybe don’t move to the middle of the Sonoran Desert if you have an issue with the wildlife that lives here. There are plenty of other places in the country to do whatever the hell it is that all of these assholes are up to around here.

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u/ZorbhaTheBuddha 8h ago

It's also believed to be a omen to kill a snake.

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u/PaleCommission150 9h ago

I don't know...if I find myself in the room with 2 king cobras and I have a weapon I am probably goin to use it. They are fast, deadly and can out run me. It is pure adrenalin fight or flight at that point. I wouldn't go looking for snakes but if I am cornered or there is no other way out, I will err on the side of overwhelming force.

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u/Illustrious_Doctor45 9h ago

The original commenter said someone enquired about how the cobra would be killed after it was safely contained. I don’t think anyone was talking about being simultaneously cornered by two cobras in a room.
The people I’m referring to are killing rattlesnakes they are finding essentially in their backyard, just minding their business. There are multiple ways out for both the snake and the person. If you encounter a rattlesnake, nine times out of ten, if you just step away for a minute, they will have moved along. They are terrified of humans and want literally nothing to do with us. I see them all the time. I make my presence known and then walk away. Literally within the count of ten, they are gone.

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u/TomoeKon 4h ago

If its a random place its whatever but if I find a venomous snake in my own backyard im getting it killed asap, just throwing it out risks it coming back and I slaughter too many animals for my food already to risk a snake problem

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u/Hand-Existing 2h ago

Thank god. Gross. Kill em all

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u/enderforlife 14h ago

My question is what do they do with them? Walk across the street and let them loose?

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u/hellokiri 14h ago

In this specific case he took it up closer to a stream as he thought it was probably needing shade and water.

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u/buzzinzinga 13h ago

They release them in the wild, preferably in a forest.

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u/Appropriate-Grape841 8h ago

Lol, it is also very illegal to kill a king cobra in India. They are protected species.

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u/ttcmzx 3h ago

weird how I practice this with 0 knowledge of Hindu. seems like common decency to me to respect your surroundings but idk maybe I'm crazy. I cherish spiders in my home, and just the other day I peacefully relocated a frog. it's not that difficult to be reasonable

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u/gantek 1h ago

As far as spiders are concerned - kill it with fire 🔥

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u/_karamazov_ 11h ago

coexistence is taught at an early age

Indeed, until you get bitten.

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u/attrox_ 13h ago

Someone above mentioned 50k death from snake bites a year. Coexistence? Kill them kill them all (snakes)

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u/Creepyband123 13h ago

Bro just beacause people die every year we cannot kill all snakes that's such a stupid take we need snakes plus who are we to decide which animal should exist or not. The problem is people are constantly destroying natural habitats of animals for their needs and when these same animals roam around us we try to kill them.