With a note to my hardcase Brother
@boo -- who probably woulda done it:
Since we are
still on the subject of swallowing cobra venom, I have a life 'sperience I'd like to pass on:
I was on the Street of Snakes and watched the whole operation. I have it in pictures, but I'll just describe the procedure in a street stall:
A live cobra would be hanging by the head from an IBM money clip, wriggling. The lady-server lays down a tray with two 4-oz glasses and two shot glasses... She then 'rings' the cobra just behind the head, and strips off its skin. As the dangling snake writhes in agony, the smiling "waitress" picks up one of the 4-oz glasses, and drains dark blood of the big vein that runs the length of the cobra's body into it.
She then picks up the second glass, cuts the upper part of the cobra's ribcage, and drains the lung blood (much redder). As the snake writhes, she then takes a shot glass and drains the bile (bright fargin green) into it. About half full.
The snake is unhooked, and the venom is drained into the remaining shot glass. I was amazed that there was perhaps half a shot of venom.
Here comes the tray to the woman customer who'd been waiting: She knocks back the bile (grimacing horribly), and chases it with the dark venous blood. Oh. The cobra is back up, hanging and writhing. Then, she knocks back the venom, and chases it with the lung blood.
She turned and smiled at me with a bloody mouth. Apparently, it is seen as some form of tonic.
If I can find the pics, I'll puttem up. I also took a picture of the hundred foot-long stall with girls for sale. Not rent: Sale. <-- TINS
MY GAWD!! I found 'em BOTH!!
These girls (coupla dozen) were no older than 16. They scattered like birds.
Note the "on deck" cobras onf the left. The 7 white things in a row are shot glasses. The front of the stall (out of the pic, below) is wire-faced: Full of cobras so you can pick the one you want.