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| Cobra-in-bed scare for Dutch tourist |
| 2002-12-18 |
| A Dutch tourist who looked under his pillow in a hotel room in Malaysia after he felt something wriggling there was temporarily blinded in one eye when a cobra spat at him. Jaroean Ferdinand, 27, was due to fly home Wednesday after spending two days in hospital in Malacca, the member of parliament for the area, Sim Tong Him, told AFP. Local media quoted Ferdinand as saying: "After checking into the hotel room (in Malacca), I settled down for a rest. But seconds later, I felt something wriggling under my pillow." As he lifted the pillow, a 0.6 metre (one-and-a-half-foot) cobra lunged at him, missing him by centimetres as he ducked. But the reptile managed to spit venom into his right eye. "Other than that, how was your vacation, Jar?" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 He was "temporarily blinded" in one eye, and that's all? That's one lucky man. |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2002-12-19 05:23:06 |