Comments on: Baby vs. Cobra

By: Silk40dd

Silk40dd — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:32:58 +0000

If those snakes are everywhere, then my trip to India will be canceled in any future plans lol.
However, the fact that they are doing this and thinking its funny is horrible abuse to a child as far as I'm concerned! Not to mention the snake (even though I hate snakes) why would anyone sew its mouth or de fang it for their pleasure?
Its exploitation of a child for the amusement of the so called adults who are present in this video! Shame on them all!
Call it a ritual, it still barbaric!

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:04:37 +0000

@ 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.

By: Raja

Raja — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:47:54 +0000

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

By: Miller

Miller — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:24:05 +0000

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

By: mother theresa

mother theresa — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:06:01 +0000

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

By: nach

nach — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:45:18 +0000

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.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:57:50 +0000

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.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:10:21 +0000

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

By: Nollie

Nollie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:04:24 +0000

snopes.com sort of has an answer:

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

By: RM

RM — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:23:57 +0000

Defanged of course.

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:11:58 +0000

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

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

LOL... oh, the irony.

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:25:12 +0000

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

I call bullshit on that one.

By: mother theresa

mother theresa — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:34:05 +0000

Typical heathen cultural crapola. *Yawn*. Next.

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:55:35 +0000

That was epic.

By: avist

avist — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:43:50 +0000

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?

By: Christophe

Christophe — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:34:28 +0000

insane!

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

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:09:54 +0000

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.

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:25:53 +0000

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.

By: bleh

bleh — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:09:23 +0000

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

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:24:13 +0000

how bizarre

By: pfelelep

pfelelep — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:18:59 +0000

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'!)

By: Allister

Allister — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:13:56 +0000

"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!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:05:13 +0000

Yeah, I agree with you kris: friends don't let friends comment on YouTube ...

By: kris

kris — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:54:10 +0000

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.

By: Allister

Allister — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:03:05 +0000

"it still thing"

WHAT THE CRAP ARE YOU ON ABOUT SON?

I still think.

By: Allister

Allister — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:02:13 +0000

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

By: alison

alison — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:44:53 +0000

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