I wish I could say that I was somehow surprised that this happened in Camden county.

It's like an episode of Squidbillies.

Too bad he lived, was THIS close to a Darwin Award

Wants her Black Mamba back

Kobe?

Harry Blackitt: That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas, and, Protestantism doesn't stop at the simple condom. Oh, no. I can wear French Ticklers if I want.
Mrs. Blackitt: You what?
Harry Blackitt: French Ticklers. Black Mambos. Crocodile Ribs. Sheaths that are designed not only to protect, but also to enhance the stimulation of sexual congress.
Mrs. Blackitt: Have you got one?
Harry Blackitt: Have I got one? Uh, well, no, but I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Harry's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, 'Harry, I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant.'
Mrs. Blackitt: Well, why don't you?
Harry Blackitt: But they - Well, they cannot, 'cause their church never made the great leap out of the Middle Ages and the domination of alien Episcopal supremacy.

Came for Megamind and Meaning of Life. Leaving happy.

Devo Cornholiosky: [img842.imageshack.us image 640x358]
The Black Mambaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

David Cross was wonderful as Minion.

Wrong tag. FTFA: The Florida Times-Union reports that John K. Rosenbaum of Jacksonville was bitten during the sale Monday along I-95 in Kingsland.

kokomo61: At one exhibit (Cape Fear Serpentarium, Wilmington, NC), a description says that locals warn 'if you are bitten by the black mamba, it is best just to lay down and die.'

They called it the cigarette snake in Lusaka, meaning if bitten you might
as well light a cigarette because you won't have time to smoke it.
Maybe the Mambas in Lusaka were faster than usual in this way as well
they scoot across the road pretty fast when a car is coming.
In the wiki page it seems to show 20 minutes to 3 hours but the
antivenin confuses things. Seems amazing that there was Black Mamba
antivenin ready to go within 20 minutes, though. I guess the hospitals
in Florida have to deal with stuff like this all the time.

I lived in Mamba country (Botswana) as a child. I have two CSBs:

1) Shortly before we arrived in country, a Mamba got spooked, bolted for its burrow, and bit a young boy, three sheep, a horse AND the man riding it. ALL died.

2) My father got called out to an employee home/camp to kill one. I was with him. They backed a Landrover up to the hole. Dad stood on the back tailgate staring into the burrow with a twelve gauge. They pumped exhaust down the hole via a hose. Mamba came out, Dad fired as soon as he could see the snake...And shot it a FOOT BEHIND THE HEAD. Momentum carried the head over Dad, where it thumped into the back of the Rover.

I am not at ALL excited that there are probably now Mambas in Florida. They are a freakishly frightening snake. Where we lived, we had four varieties of cobras...The only snakes we worried about were Mambas and Boomslangs.

Type40: and all I got form a crossroads in Georga was this lousy solid gold vIolin.

Wouldn't a solid gold violin weigh hundreds of pounds and sound crummy?

Bad Cobra (new window)

fireteacher: Nope, sorry to have to claim this one, but Kingland is in Georgia (new window). Just across the St. Mary's River,

Roger that. I try to avoid Jacksonville, if at all possible.

but still. Wonder if it was one of the bubbleheads from the Navy base wanting a new pet to take out on deployment?

Or a Marine. Regardless, happened before the drunk excuse. "We'd been drinking, and I remembered I forgot to give him his kitten for the week....."

A question for the people who have expressed concern about mambas escaping and proliferating - do different kinds of snakes mate with each other, like dogs do, or would an escaped male mamba have to find a female? And if so, wouldn't that be an awfully long shot? (Not that a black mamba roaming around on its own can't do enough damage, based on the stories in this thread.)

Just read the Wikipedia article on black mambas. In 2006, a mamba bit and killed an adult female elephant who weighed over 7,500 pounds.

chaddsfarkprefect: Anyone buying a black mamba at a roadside stand in Georgia would probably not know the difference if you sold him a rat snake. Much safer.

I bet that's exactly what happened. Once the guy was bitten, the vendor had to go all in and tell the him to rush to a hospital because he had been bitten by the deadly black mamba. If it had been the real thing, the guy probably would have dropped dead before making it back to his car.

(A scene at a Georgia highway on ramp)

Entrepreneur: Oranges! Oranges only $5.00!

Motorist: I don't need any oranges.

Entrepreneur: No oranges, signor? Er, I have a black mambo snake, fresh from Africa.

Motorist: Great! Give me one of those!

Entrepreneur: 50 bucks, but for you I charge five dollar.

Motorist: Here's a ten. Can you make change?

Entrepreneur: Sorry. No paper monies. But here, have some oranges.

Motorist: Sucker! A black mambo is worth way more than $5.

Entrepreneur: Sucker! I found that snake i my oranges. I didn't cost me nothin'. And I tink it was jess a black snake. What would an African snake be doing in Mexican oranges?

Whoops! Black mamba, not black mambo.

A black mambo is a bird of a different colour.

Oh, well, I can always blame the Mexican.

It was a joke, son. A jest ... a ha! ha! Listen to me when I'm talkin' at you, boy! Kids nowadays! They've got no stickiness. Totally gormless.

Odd...I always imagined black mambas being, you know, blacker.

dholway: Odd...I always imagined black mambas being, you know, blacker.

They're named for their mouths.

One of the oddest stories involving a black mamba in the US is that of Garrick Wales (new window). For reasons that remain unknown to this day, the Scottish businessman bought four venomous snakes (a green mamba, a black mamba, a forest cobra and a twig snake) from a Florida reptile farm, and had them shipped to Little Rock, a city with which he had no connection. He was found dead in his rental car; meanwhile, across town, a box was found with "live snakes" written on it. Long story short, he'd been bitten by the snakes that he'd ordered. Why he was in Little Rock remains a mystery. Why he ordered the snakes remains a mystery (it's theorized he was trying to make himself immune to venom). What his she-male pornstar girlfriend has to do with any of this remains a mystery.