Serpent Handling Preacher Meets Cobra....

[TwinTown Skater]

Here's an interesting little story I found in an article. They're inteviewing a reptile expert who runs a reptile farm down in Florida:
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MacInnes, who is exceedingly understated (the people from Animal Planet have told him he's no Steve Irwin), tells the unhappy story of a Tennessee preacher who came to visit. He was from a snake-handling church, and he brought a couple of rattlesnakes that he wanted to barter for a cobra. MacInnes warned that cobras aren't very religious. If you handle a cobra the way you handle a rattlesnake, he told the preacher, you won't last long.

The preacher insisted. He bought the cobra.

"He didn't live a month," MacInnes said.
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I guess every once in a while you should listen to experts

Balance of the article is here: washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

[PuppY_K1ck3R]

I guess the spirit of god wasn't in the preacher. I wonder if i can bring my trouser snake to the church and let all the ladies handle it all they want.

[jhelm007]

Wow... just wow.

[sniffleless]

In a town near where I used to live they had a big murder trial where a snakehandling preacher tried to kill his wife by having on of his snakes bite her. Wish I could remember all the details on that story. Sorry. My memory sucks.