By Sonja Haller
Brave
grandma kills 4.5-foot-long cobra with shovel to protect neighborhood kids.
Animal
control said the snake that grandma Kathy Kehoe killed was an Asian cobra, and
was about 4.5 feet long.
First
she snapped photos.
Then
the 73-year-old Pennsylvania grandma smashed the snake dead with a shovel.
Animal control says she slayed a 4.5 foot Asian cobra.
Kathy
Kehoe said she knew instantly it was a cobra when she first spotted it on her
patio.
Birds were screeching outside at about 2 p.m. Monday when she stepped
outside see why.
“Oh, it’s a snake,” Kehoe told ABC 6.
“When
I opened the screen door to see what kind of snake it was, the birds flew away
and I saw the spot on its back, and I kind of nudged its tail and it came up
and spread its hood and I said ‘that’s a cobra,'” she said.
The
snake slithered away, but Kehoe chased after it.
“He went this way.
I stalked him and when he got over to here, I tapped his tail. He went up and
that’s when I did the deed and held him there,” she said.
The
grandma said she wasn’t about to let the cobra get away because of children in
the neighborhood of Falls Township, Bucks County, 25 miles from Philadelphia.
“I
was like ‘this animal can’t be here, it’s a poisonous reptile,'” she said.
In
March, officials removed 20 venomous snakes from a neighboring apartment,
including 12 cobras.
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