Only in NY
The venomous Bronx Zoo Egyptian cobra that alarmed and delighted New Yorkers when it escaped from its enclosure was found today, ending a six day search for the celebrated snake.
The elusive snake was found “coiled, sort of secluded in a dark corner” about 9 a.m. a couple hundred feet away from the enclosure she had slipped out of, said Bronx Zoo Director Jim Breheny.
The poisonous cobra disappeared from the zoo last Saturday and immediately became New York’s newest and skinniest celebrity. The teenage cobra built up a huge following on Twitter with nearly 200,000 followers while it was on the lam. Since Monday, the Twitter account @BronxZoosCobra has tweeted the imaginary escapades of the escapee.
The tweets have delighted New Yorkers as they lampooned the city’s foibles and its famous. “Donald Trump is thinking about running for president?! Don’t worry, I’ll handle this. Where is Trump Tower exactly?” said one sample.
200,000+ followers on Twitter, a gig on Kimmel and Conan and hundreds of column inches of news.
They can find a snake in NYC….and they still can’t find Bin Laden.
Column Inches. Hmmm. what exactly are those? 😉
Column inches is an old newspaper term, used instead of word count. It’s a newspaper article’s columns added together lengthwise measured in inches.
Cobras are not poisonous, as in your third paragraph, they are venomous as correctly stated in your first paragraph. The differnence being that in venomous it needs to get into the blood stream to do its damage and in poisonous into the stomach, as in eating it.
In several Asian countries Cobras are eaten, thus showing they are not poisonous.
Allowing a Cobra to bite one, thus getting the venom into the blood stream tends to be rather life limiting.
Picky bugger, aren’t I? All teachers and ex-teachers are like this. It’s why kids rightly hate them. Want to introduce them to Cobras.
[I didn’t write it, did you click the link? Ed.]
Make it a regular event. Next year release the black mamba.
I wish I was the cobra. Instant celeb!
It had to get out to lay her eggs.
Glad she’s alive and well. Living in captivity is a drag for a wild creature. She had a little vacation from the maddening public, now it’s back to show biz. What’s a girl snake gonna do…you take a job where you can find one.
Wow! I bet whoever is responsible for that is not coming to work on Monday! I bet there are thousands of cobras that we don’t even know about!
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