TV reptile expert Mark O'Shea rushed to hospital after being bitten by deadly cobra

[lastlid]

This is why I don't like to mess with these creatures.....:omg:


"World-renowned reptile expert and TV wildlife personality Mark O'Shea had to be airlifted to hospital - after being bitten by a killer King Cobra.



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tv-reptile-expert-mark-o-shea-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-bitten-by-deadly-cobra.html

[grahamw48]

I hope he's going to pay for the helicopter...idiot. :rolleyes:

[Arthur Little]

This is why I don't like to mess with these creatures.....:omg:

... :cwm24: ... QUITE so! Snakes of ANY description - even the very thought of them - give(s) me the creeps!!!

[stevewool]

some of these so called experts are so daft sometimes, i know its just for the camera, but when you see some of them, they seem to ask for it

[lastlid]

When I worked in the middle east with a lot of americans they seemed to like to mess with scorpions and snakes etc. My feeling was that one day they might fork up and then :omg: :NoNo:

[lastlid]

And look what happened to Steve Irwin....

"Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert,television personality, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane. Irwin died on 4 September 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming an underwater documentary film titled Ocean's Deadliest. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship MY Steve Irwin was named in his honour."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin