Baby vs. Cobra

1. alison
   July 6th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

   Well the baby’s obviously not bothered by the whole situation..

2. Allister
   July 7th, 2008 at 12:02 am

   Defanged or not, it still thing being smacked in the head by a cobra would hurt!

3. Allister
   July 7th, 2008 at 12:03 am

   “it still thing”

   WHAT THE CRAP ARE YOU ON ABOUT SON?

   I still think.

4. kris
   July 7th, 2008 at 12:54 am

   Does anyone know WHY this video was made? I read a few references to it being a ritual or a rite of passage, but I could glean nothing more specific from youtube. There were pages upon pages of racist and inane comments, with no real information about what was happening in the video. I’m just curious if this was a one-off or a more widespread practice.

5. Alex
   July 7th, 2008 at 1:05 am

   Yeah, I agree with you kris: friends don’t let friends comment on YouTube …

6. Allister
   July 7th, 2008 at 1:13 am

   “There were pages upon pages of racist and inane comments, with no real information about what was happening in the video.”

   That doesn’t sound like a YouTube comment thread AT ALL!

   

7. pfelelep
   July 7th, 2008 at 1:18 am

   one of my friends told me he saw this documentary on TV years ago.

   I never believed him.

   thanks to youtube, now he can regain his honour!

   (indian people sure have… in their pants, yes mam’!)

8. SenorMysterioso
   July 7th, 2008 at 1:24 am

   how bizarre

9. bleh
   July 7th, 2008 at 3:09 am

   aghh older than the internet. Ok not that old, but I’m doing a timewarp to 2007 at least.

10. Jose
    July 7th, 2008 at 3:25 am

    this is a beggar using his kid and a defanged cobra to make money on the street. So while the kid and the cobra are supposedly ‘fighting’, the dude goes around with his bag/cap whatever and asks curious bystanders for money.

11. Tim Giachetti
    July 7th, 2008 at 5:09 am

    I’ve yet to find the source I read a couple years ago on this. But, Cobras are normally kept as pets there and the family lets them run freely. A good omen, of sorts, if the child develops no fear as he grows older. He will see them all his life working the crops as they are literally everywhere there.

12. Christophe
    July 7th, 2008 at 5:34 am

    insane!

    @bleh : this is so old! I timewarped to lastweek ;p

13. avist
    July 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Can’t make out what they’re saying, but I think its pretty clear they’re all enjoying it!

    I say poor snake, because the baby has no idea what’s going on and isn’t scared at all! The snake on the other hand…talk about massive ego damage!

    But I feel bad after watching it though - I wanted the snake to win!

    Seriously though,the snake wrapped itself around the baby’s neck! That could have gone wrong, even though I don’t think cobras squeeze their prey - do they?

14. CheeseDuck
    July 7th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    That was epic.

15. mother theresa
    July 7th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Typical heathen cultural crapola. *Yawn*. Next.

16. Adam Stanhope
    July 7th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    But, Cobras are normally kept as pets there and the family lets them run freely.

    I call bullshit on that one.

17. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 7th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    “mother theresa
    July 7th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Typical heathen cultural crapola. *Yawn*. Next.”

    LOL… oh, the irony.

18. RM
    July 7th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Defanged of course.

19. Nollie
    July 7th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    snopes.com sort of has an answer:

    http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/babycobra.asp

20. Tim Giachetti
    July 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    That’s nice Adam. Go read a little rather than look for trouble.

21. Johnny Cat
    July 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Yeah, when I saw this back in 2007, I noticed the video abruptly stops as soon as Mr. Snake wraps himself around the throat. Defanged-good. Choking-bad.

22. nach
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    They’re not really saying much helpful. The woman’s voice says “He’s coming after [the tail]” and “He [the baby] saw it [the snake] now” right when the baby looks at the cobra’s head. The man’s voice is mainly egging the child on, though much of it I can’t make out. They don’t say anything about the cobra per se (re: defang or mouth stitch). I obviously understand the language, which makes me come from the same part of India, but I have no clue what the hell these people are doing. It’s not a cultural thing. It’s a single family thing.

23. mother theresa
    July 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    Yeah, it is ironic. Roman Catholicism is rather heathenistic eh?
    I concur. Too many rituals, too many relics, too many bleeding statues
    and Jesus images on bread. Gave up catholicism for lent . Decided to become a Christian instead. OH, but kept the catchy name

24. Miller
    July 7th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Yeah the Cobra’s mouth is actually sewn shut. Even still its a very odd ritual to say the least.

25. Raja
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:47 am

    Why would anyone want to deface nature like that? The spectacle only teaches us to numb out of the inherant beauty of things.

26. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    @ mother theresa:

    Well, that wasn’t exactly what I meant. I was going for more of the tolerance aspect and my doubts that Mother Theresa would have called her adoptive culture “crapola”.

    But your explanation works, too.

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