And ants if you want picnic with GF. They will surely bite you! :p
Wah, you and Cobras are like magnet, faded to meet each other. Did you marry one after you Ex your girl friend?
Interesting account Uncle Yap... Had a close shave while walking the dog too.. Only few months back my dog saved my ass while I walking him around my mom in law's neighbourhood at Changi's Mariam Way.. Was wearing slippers during that night when I nearly stepped on to a small but fierce black snake hissing at me menancingly.. My dog next instinct was to immediately pounced on to the snake but I pulled him away in time before that small black bugger slithered away into a longkang.. Once I was driving in the middle of the nite on the road of the old Changi Hospital... Was drizzling lightly that night when suddenly I slowed down as I thought I saw a long rope on the middle of that road..Curious, I braked my car, parked it at the side of the road, stepped out of my car and walk towards that ''rope''... And to my horror that ''rope'' was a long 2m python.. Terrified I quickly ran back to my car and waited for the snake to slither inside the longkang besides a bus stop...
I was first aid instructor with St John's ambulance brigade for some 15 years but 20+ years ago when I was in school.
In my NS days I used to kill cobras 20-30 of them. Especially during exercise or night prowler duties. Many black cobras in SGP, Sembawang Camp Changi Camp SAFTI exercise areas. Usually 1 meter size. I chase them up and accurately step on their head to squashed them. Larger size can not do this trick. SAF boots not powerful enough.
In SAFTI live fire hills I saw a huge black cobra, the thickness was like adult upper arm 3+ meters. It crossed our dirt path in front of our landrover, I got off the veh to look for it but not found. There must be a hole it got hidden. Snakes not so risky there as SAF blind bombs, got countless number of mortar shells around.
For 1st Aid when medical help is too far away and patient could died of heart failure before reaching hospital. Can consider to BURNT the WOUND. Open the wound after tied to stop bleeding. And press hot burning metal against the area containing venom. The venom is bio-toxin meaning it is also protein, and it can not withstand heat. You cook it and protein will disintegrate into something else less lethal.
Burn wound is usually not lethal, far less lethal than snake venom. So if hospital is few days away, you rather have a bad 3rd degree burn rather than a corpse of with failed heart, burn the snake bite. The snake bite is already more painful than the burn itself anyway. :p Ouch!
Interesting account Uncle Yap... Had a close shave while walking the dog too.. Only few months back my dog saved my ass while I walking him around my mom in law's neighbourhood at Changi's Mariam Way.. Was wearing slippers during that night when I nearly stepped on to a small but fierce black snake hissing at me menancingly.. My dog next instinct was to immediately pounced on to the snake but I pulled him away in time before that small black bugger slithered away into a longkang.. Once I was driving in the middle of the nite on the road of the old Changi Hospital... Was drizzling lightly that night when suddenly I slowed down as I thought I saw a long rope on the middle of that road..
Snakes in Ubin not much of problem. Mosquito problem bigger than that.
Long time no use. When we were kids that were used daily. Camping and NS days also used. Now forgot almost all about that. I hate that thing when they break. Because shortened coils can not last until dawn, and fucking mosquito will harass you from a good sleep when the dawn is near, damn Tu-Lan.
I remember these little steel plates that we bent and supported the coils to burn. The last time I used that may be 30 yrs ago.
