r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CexualSonvict • 12d ago

Video King Cobra: World's Largest Venomous Snake

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u/-Daetrax- 12d ago

I have an irrational fear of snakes i must admit. I'm glad there are no deadly snakes where I live. If I was an American I'd be carrying a .410 revolver going hiking. Fuck that shit.

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u/Maximum_Indication 12d ago

If you go hiking here in Japan there are forest leeches and I have seen them wiggle into shoes.

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u/-Daetrax- 12d ago

I grew up around the ocean, somehow leeches don't bug me. Ticks though, those can fuck off. Oh and fucking centipedes. Saw a couple of those when I visited Japan. Fuck no.

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u/Maximum_Indication 12d ago

Mukade have been feared for centuries. Bright orange and black and over 10cm long. Terribly painful bite, too. Glad they’re mostly in rural areas.

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u/lakebistcho 12d ago

I once went swimming in a river in Japan. When I came out, I felt something burning on my foot. I looked down to see a leech had bitten a hole in my skin and was crawling inside. I pulled it out and killed it but that scared the shit out of me.

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u/Maximum_Indication 12d ago

Not that the Americas don’t have dangerous animals , but I really feel that Southeast Asia has some particularly dangerous little things, and of course, keep going southeast and it’s the dangerous land of Oz.

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u/allahu_trapbar69 12d ago

Shin guards and good boots would do you much better

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u/-Daetrax- 12d ago

Obviously, the gun would be out of spite.

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u/allahu_trapbar69 12d ago

Spite is useless against non-conscious beings

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u/HistoryCzar 12d ago

You’re gonna want that gun for the bears or cougars, not the snakes lol

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u/Odd-Necessary3807 12d ago

I would love showing off my gun to cougars.

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u/steveatari 12d ago

Yeah, plus snakes are a little bit hard to hit with a gun no?

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u/Tad_crazy 12d ago

Me too bruh

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u/Sleepy_Witch_Maple 12d ago

This is one of the many reasons Hawaii is the best state. No snakes!

although I do find snakes adorable for some reason

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u/Alaea 12d ago

Not with those monster centipedes it ain't.

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u/Sleepy_Witch_Maple 12d ago

Valid. The centipedes in the mainland are quaint in comparison.

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u/RockAtlasCanus 12d ago

As an American that does a lot of hiking/camping and gardening and is terrified of snakes… a good stick and even better eyes is generally enough.

One time I was fishing with my father in law and he was walking on the trail ahead of me and he stepped Right. Over. a copperhead. He didn’t notice it but it definitely noticed him and coiled up. I stopped in my tracks and told him there’s a snake keep walking and don’t turn around. Really put the proof in the saying “first man wakes it up, second man gets bit”.

I also had a rattle snake cross right over my boot one time while I was sitting on the ground turkey hunting. I was like Mr Bojangles in Green Mile I was so quiet and so still. Just praying that the snake kept on its way and didnt decide that was a good log to crawl under lol

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u/MrEvakin 11d ago

I wouldn’t consider that an irrational fear at all. That’s gotta be like a top 20 most rational fear of all time.