73-year-old woman uses shovel to kill cobra
By mbrooks on June 27, 2019
By Matthew Brooks
A Pennsylvania woman heard some blue jays making unusual noises outside of her home. The woman, Kathy Kehoe, looked outside to see a cobra snake on her patio.
Kehoe told her local news when the cobra raised up and spread its hood she knew it was a cobra, according to ABC 6. She decided to kill it.
But first, she took a photo of it.
Whoa! 😱 A Pennsylvania woman used a shovel to kill a cobra she saw slithering on the patio of her apartment. “I knew what I was doing was dangerous, I’m not a fool,” Kathy Kehoe said. https://t.co/LUu4fUh4pl
— WGXA (@WGXAnews) June 25, 2019
“I knew what I was doing was dangerous, I’m not a fool,” Kehoe told the news.
The cobra was four to five feet long, according to official’s estimates.
Her apartment complex was host to many snakes recently. It is the same place where officials found and removed 20 venomous snakes from another apartment in March. Officials did not confirm that the cobra Kehoe killed was among the snakes from the area.
Cobras have the ability to spit deadly venom from several feet away.
Wildlife experts recommend against approaching and attacking cobras like Kehoe did.
America is home to two native types of cobra snakes: two species of coral snakes.
Coral snakes in North America are have brightly colored bands in a red-yellow-black pattern. They are usually non-confrontational and shy. A coral snake’s venom is deadly to humans.
