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Man bites snake to death in West Bengal

Source PTI
Last Updated: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 14:38 hrs

Burdwan (WB): Finally, humankind is paying snakes back in the same coin! An inebriated man killed a cobra in Burdwan on Friday as he bit and cut it into two pieces.

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Subhas Banerjee, a canteen worker of Jamuria police station in Burdwan district, was returning to his Ekra village home in an inebriated state when he found villagers talking about a cobra being found in the locality, police said on Sunday.

Banerjee hit the cobra with a stick and when it was still alive, he bit the serpent and cut it into two pieces, telling others that a snake should also know how it felt being bitten.

Shortly after, however, he fell unconscious and had to be taken to a hospital. He is doing fine now.

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