Objective Jerk
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Objective Jerk
I FOUND A DEADLY COBRA HIDING IN MY RECYCLING BIN TODAY.
A face-to-face encounter with a deadly Philippine Cobra hiding in recycling bins leads to a tense standoff and difficult decisions about handling dangerous wildlife. What started as persistent barking from dogs turns into a discovery of a meter-long venomous snake that had potentially been living on the property for years.
• Philippine Cobras are highly venomous with neurotoxic venom that can cause respiratory failure within 30 minutes
• The snake was approximately 3 feet long and displayed its characteristic hood when threatened
• Initial reluctance to kill the snake due to its role in natural pest control, keeping mice and rats away
• Local Filipino approach to dangerous snakes is pragmatic - elimination rather than relocation
• Previous snake sightings on the property suggest the cobra may have been living there for years
• Balancing conservation values with practical safety concerns when living in rural areas
• Northern Philippine cobras are capable of spitting venom up to 3 meters
If you want to see the video of the cobra encounter, head over to Rumble or BitChute and look me up where the full footage is available.
What's up? This is the Objective. Jerk and I'm a said jerk, I know you're probably like dude you got phlegm. Why are you doing a podcast? I get it, but story time I just had a little incursion with a Philippine cobra, pretty big, so I'm going to talk about it. So I'm going to talk about it, but before I did I did kind of look up to make sure like there wasn't a snake that tries to look like a cobra or whatever you know. But yeah, it was a cobra. Got some whiskey no, it's iced tea, but yeah.
Speaker 1:So I've been here five years Not quite five years, but within a couple weeks it'll be five years and I thought us, living up in the country, my wife has properties with mango, you know, mango trees and stuff and farmland. We go check out a lot. I kind of thought I would come across snakes more often than I do. I have seen there was a snake that was ran over down the road. It was pretty large but it was a little decomposed, like it was. You know, they'd been dead for a few days at least, um, but I don't think that was a Cobra, I think that was just like a rat snake type, you know, um, and then we were going through the farm and my wife stopped and talked to somebody and they had said that they had gotten a Cobra out in the farmland, you know, and they showed it. It was kind of small, you know, but so I've always been, like man, a little concerned, not not like scared, but, you know, but over time it's like nothing really, although I think this Cobra has been hanging around my property for a few years now and I'm thinking I mean I don't want a cobra hanging out, but, um, I'm thinking that's what's kind of cause. It's like we'll, we'll have some mice, or there was a rat kind of messing around and I set up a trap and did some stuff and then they're gone. So I'm wondering if the snake was like taking care of those, those you know. So now it's like also, we're going to have problems with mice and everything. I mean real problems.
Speaker 1:But anyway, the reason I think that is, you know, a couple of years ago, doing something like in the laundry room, moving something, there was like a small snake, you know, it was pretty small, and I basically just kind of swished it away with the broom and it slithered away and it was gone, right, I think that happened like. And then, you know, a little while later, same kind of snake, a little bit bigger, and I'm like, oh, I wonder if that's the same snake. And then, about a year ago ish, there was like a big shed in the back of my backyard, a snake shed, like a snake was coming through and it caught its skin as it was shedding and it just slithered and pulled the whole thing off Like in one piece. You know it was pretty big and I was like, oh man, I'm like where's this guy living? And, um, I don't know, that's kind of, that's kind of been it, you know. And then, um, yeah, that's that's kind of it until today, so earlier, this is just. This all happened within like the last hour.
Speaker 1:So I was doing some stuff, I was cleaning up my little tool room and organizing my bike stuff and trying to get ready for my ride tomorrow and the dogs are barking and barking and barking. And you know, when you have dogs, you can kind of tell when they're barking at each other or barking at other dogs or when they're barking at, like somebody at the gate. You know, it's like you kind of learn the way they bark and what's going on. You know what I'm saying. And so I was listening to them bark and it was like they were barking, like somebody was at the front gate, but they were right by the house, by the back, like behind the back door from our kitchen which we have like our recycle. I mean, we don't really recycle but we do separate like cans and plastic and we bring it to like a dump and stuff and they separate it and do all that kind of stuff. But I don't know, I guess that's the American in me still trying to have recycled bins.
Speaker 1:But um, so they're all sitting there just barking at like the tread, the bins and I'm like you know, it's like almost like they. You know it was a transform dude, I'm sweating, I gotta turn the fan on. I don't think it messes with the audio too bad. Um, so they're. I, you know, I looked through the window. They're just barking, barking, barking at something and I'm like I'm thinking either like another cat snuck in and is hiding there or maybe a rat, you know.
Speaker 1:So I just grabbed like a broom and I went out there and was like moving some stuff and they were, there was something there. I knew something was there and so I moved, like the smaller bins, and so I have a big trash can. That's kind of like our burn paper, cardboard, so stuff that burns, that's where we put it, and if we need something to start a fire or do whatever, that's what that's for, and then I dump it when it gets full. And then you have the two smaller plastic containers that are for the cans and the plastics. So I moved the smaller ones and they're still barking. They're still barking. I'm looking, I'm looking. I don't see nothing. But then I see the large recycle thing like move, and I'm like whoa, something's in there, something big, big. So I'm thinking it's a cat or a rat, for sure, you know.
Speaker 1:So I grabbed the container and I moved it out, kind of in the open, in the sun, and I don't know if he went out the back, because I was looking. I don't know how he got out, but I saw at the bottom. I saw that it was a snake and it was like pretty good size snake. So this, this Cobra was, you know, probably like that really, but it was like over a meter long, it was a decent size, and I'm going to, I'm going to show a little clip, um, cause I did take video, but anyway. So you know, I pulled it and I saw it and I'm like, oh crap, a snake.
Speaker 1:Now I'm not like petrified of snakes, I'm not like phobic, but they do kind of creep me out a little bit Like they're interesting. I've held snakes, you know, but but I'm not like I don't know. You know what I mean. I'm not going to jump in there like the crocodile hunter or anything, but so I saw it come out and I was like, well, that's pretty big. And then I saw it go over like some of the woods towards this wood pile that I have, and I saw it's, it's hood or it's rib cage spread out, and you know, like cobras do, and I was like, oh crap, it's a Cobra. So I, I immediately cause I'm in flip-flops, right, and I'm like I'm not messing with no.
Speaker 1:So I ran in, I put on like my slip-on, like work cowboy boots that I never wear here, but well, except for today, I guess. And I called my wife and I'm like, hey, we got a big ass cobra here. She's like really. So she called somebody to come help. You know, take care of it. So I just kind of I was there, I didn't want to leave because I didn't want the cobra to get away or get in the kitchen or whatever. So I was kind of trying to stay there as much as possible.
Speaker 1:And then I had the dogs. All the dogs were still trying to sniff and find it and this and that, and oh, you know what? No, that's not good, okay, sorry. I. Oh, you know what. No, that's not good, okay, sorry. I just had a little brain aneurysm. And so finally, the guy not finally, it was pretty quick, but the guy she called he comes in, but then he doesn't want to come in because the dogs Filipinos are scared of dogs, most of them. So I had to leave for a minute and I got the dogs to go in the back where I have the gate I just built. And then he came in and we started moving wood.
Speaker 1:You know, I had a crowbar cause. So I'm picturing like what you see, you know on on on programs, or, or, or what's that guy on YouTube, Chandler Chandler's wildlife, or whatever you know on on on programs, or, or, or what's that guy on YouTube, chandler Chandler's wildlife, or whatever you know. And I'm so I'm thinking like, okay, I got the crowbar, which is, you know, kind of like the snake stick thing, but it's just thicker and heavier. You know, maybe I can get it, grab it by its tail and keep it like. That's what I'm kind of planning in my head a little bit. You know what I mean, because I'm not. I don't want the snake here, but I don't want to kill it either. You know what I mean, um, but uh, yeah, filipinos don't give a shit.
Speaker 1:So so the guy shows up and, um, I was grabbing whatever kind of long kind of tools I had, and and then I have this like pry bar that that they use for digging here, because the dirt here is like clay in a lot of places. It's really hard. So it's just like a long, like a, like a, like a long chisel kind of thing, like you know the size of a shovel, but on the end of it it's just like a tiny spade to dig in and break up like clay, and then on the other end it's got like a pointy whatever. It's like a metal pipe. Comes in handy, came in handy today, but so anyway. So I got the video. I'm not going to play the whole video, it's like seven minutes, but I'll add it to to um this somehow for the video, I'll put it in, I'll put it in somewhere.
Speaker 1:But, um, so we're moving the wood, I'm recording it. And then my wife also called the housekeeper lady that that takes care of her dad, that helps, you know. So she's like it helps make sure he's good to go and whatever. So she came to kind of help with the dogs and everything. But I had already taken care of that. So she showed up and then, um, so I was recording and then I asked her to record and so we're moving the wood, we're moving the wood, and then finally we see it, and then the, the guy who can't speak english. For anything, most people do speak a little english, but this guy couldn't. So I'm, I keep talking to him and I'm like, why am I talking to this guy again? I'm the same.
Speaker 1:But so he had that digging spade that I was talking about and he just, you know, slams it in the ground, but he just barely got like the tail nicked it, kind of. I mean it hurt it, but so it went further in there, right, and I'm thinking, well, I could have done that. I mean I can kill it, but you know, I don't know. See, that's what I'm talking about. You know, I'm not a cold-hearted bastard. Yes, I voted for Trump because Trump is awesome, but I'm not like some, you know, like people think like conservatives or whatever, they want to shoot and kill everything, and it's retarded. I always say I'm a liberal heart with a conservative mind, right, anyway?
Speaker 1:So, gosh, so we're moving the wood, the wood pile, we keep moving more and more pieces, more and more pieces, and then finally I see it curled up and I'm like, there it is, it's right there. So then he gets it. And this time and I was trying to ask him too, I'm like is there, are there snakes that pretend to be cobras? You know that aren't, cause. It's like, you know, if it's not poisonous, we don't need to kill it, you know. But then he slams down the little digger and, um, basically cut it in half, but it pinned it. So it just starts bleeding out and it's underneath the wood.
Speaker 1:And I got some video I'll show, but you can, it comes out and it's got the hood and I'm like, oh yeah, that's a Cobra for sure. And you know, it's, uh, doing his thing, it's dying. And then he goes and starts bashing his head and whatever, and so it's dead. And then he takes it and then they'll probably eat it. I guess I guess they like to eat Cobra here. But that's it in a nutshell.
Speaker 1:For the most part, maybe I'll just play the whole video. I'd have to look at it though. Make sure there's nothing incriminating. I don't think there is, because I'm only at 12 minutes. But yeah, I kind of was like I don't know. I was thinking like you know, catching it, giving it to somebody or whatever. But yeah, no, they're just. You know, it's farmland, the farmers out here get bit. They don't want to get bit. So I did pull up just to see if there was like snakes around here that pretend or whatever. But no, the philippine cobra, also called the philippine spitting cobra so it does spit, um, and I was saying that in the video. I'm like, oh man, does that thing does it do? Because I didn't want to get. You know, I'm trying to get the video, but I didn't want to get too close and have it. You know, I don't know, I guess I don't know if maybe they have to be a little bigger to do that, but it was a pretty good size though.
Speaker 1:Let's see, northern philippine cobra is a stocky, highly venomous species of spinning cobra native to the northern regions of the philippines, which is where I live. The cobra, the philippine cobra, is called in tagalog and karasan and ilokano, karasan, karasan, all right. The philippine cobra is a stocky snake of medium length with long vertical ribs capable of expanding, so, when threatened, the hood can be formed. The average length of the species is one meter three feet. Man it was. Yeah, I would say it was that long, so it must have been full grown. Well, the species can grow up to 1.6 meter, which is five foot. It wasn't that big, but I'd say it was about three feet. However, subpopulations of the species, particularly specimens from minot mindoro island, are said to attain lengths of two meters, but these are unconfirmed claims. If true, however, two meters would be very rare and would be considered the absolute maximum maximum for the species.
Speaker 1:The head is elliptical, depressed, slightly, distinct from the neck, and a short, rounded snout and large nostrils. The eyes are moderate in size, dark brown and round pupils, typical of other cobra species and similar to other elapids. In general, it has a fairly stocky build for an elapid, and adult snakes are uniformly light to medium brown, while the juveniles tend to be a darker brown in color. So maybe it wasn't the same snake, because the other one, the little one I was talking about, was like bluish and silvery, so that must have not been. This cobra probably ate those guys. Anyway, they have whatever. So scales and this and that Talks about I'm trying to see what they eat. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1:Diet Species predominantly on small mammals, frogs and even other snakes. So toads come out of the woodwork at night. See, it was probably helping keep the mice down, man. You know it was probably helping keep the mice down, man. You know it's like I get.
Speaker 1:I don't want to poison a snake, you know, like I mean it was in my recycle. What if I went in there and stuck a recycle and all of a sudden I mean I doubt it, you know, but but at the same time it's like man, this thing's keeping pests away, you know sucks Cause I mean it might end up, you know, striking my cat or inadvertent. You know it's not. It's not safe to have, it's not smart to have a Cobra loose around your house, you know. So we had to do what we had to do. Um, I wasn't going to keep it. I'm not gonna let. My son, my youngest son, is infatuated with reptiles and snakes. So he's going to be all pumped. He's probably gonna be kind of bummed that we killed it or the guy killed it. I didn't kill it. But oh, let me read this real quick venom although venom toxicity values can vary greatly, even amongst specimens of the same species, the philippine cobra is considered to possess one of the more toxic venoms among the cobra species.
Speaker 1:According to something, data on venom yield of 150, saying a bunch of lingo, snake lingo given overall average venom yield per cobra per extraction. The venom of the Philippines cobra is a potent postsynaptic neurotoxin which affects respiratory function and can cause neurotoxicity and respiratory paralysis. So it's not the one that eats your skin away, those are vipers. I think right, as the neurotoxins interrupt the transmissions of nerve signals by binding to the neuromuscular junctions near the muscles. Research has shown that venom is purely neurotoxin with no apparent necrotizing components. So that's what I was talking about, where it eats your flesh and stuff. These snakes are capable of accurately spitting their venom at a large target, up to three meters. Well, I was definitely close enough to three meters, but it was kind of covered, plus it was pinned down. Anyway, symptoms of a bite might include headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness and difficult breathing. Bites by the Philippine cobra produce prominent neurotoxicity with minimum to no local signs.
Speaker 1:A study of 39 patients and BAMEN by the Philippine Cobra were conducted in 88. Neurotoxicity occurred in 38 cases and was a predominant clinical feature. Complete respiratory failure developed in 19 patients and was often rapid in onset Dang within 30 minutes. That's scary. Respiratory failure developed in 19 patients and was often rapid in onset Dang Within 30 minutes. That's scary. There were two deaths, oh, okay, well, out of 39, there was only two deaths. But how many? 19 had complete? Well, isn't complete respiratory failure? Wouldn't that mean death? I mean, I don't know. There were two deaths, both in patients who were moribund upon arrival at the hospital. Don't know what that means. These patients developed neurosis, necrosis, neurosis, I don't know. And 14 individuals with systematic symptoms had no local swelling at all. And 14 individuals with systematic symptoms had no local swelling at all. Both cardiotoxicity and reliable nonspecific signs of inventing more absent bites by the Philippine cobra produce a distinctive clinical puncture characterized by severe neurotoxicity of rapid onset, minimal Local issue damage. Anyway, well, here we go. Pretty good-sized cobra.
Speaker 1:I think I'm going to stop my video, or everything, really. I'll add the video to the end of the clip of the snake. Maybe I'll see if I can do that, but anyway, um, just on a separate topic, uh, my, my audio for my podcast has been it's not that great like. So I record on garage band and then I always listen to it before I do anything and it sounds fine, it sounds good, and then the videos sound good. But the mastering there's like magic mastering or whatever with Buzzsprout and it just makes it really echoey. I don't know. Like I mess with the GarageBand and make it sound good, but then it gets processed through GarageBand and it seems like I'm thinking about stopping that maybe and trying to see how it sounds. I don't know, but anyway, let me know how it is for you If you listen to the podcast, if it like to me.
Speaker 1:I don't like the way it sounds. I think it sounds better on the videos. Um, and then it sounds good when I listened to it directly from my garage band. But something in the uh, you know, and when you export it and then goes through whatever, it kind of messes it up or something. All right, well, my last video was really long, so it don't matter, I'm going to end it right here. My last video was really long so it don't matter, I'm going to end it right here Philippine Cobra Story. If you want to check out what it looked like and whatever, go to Rumble or BitChute and look me up and you can watch it there. But anyway, thanks for hanging out, appreciate you, god bless and have a good one. All right, bye.
